Vietnam-Path+to+War




 * A BRIEF HISTORY OF VIETNAM [[image:turningpoints/vietnamsill.gif align="right" caption="vietnamsill.gif"]]**

Pre 1800s – **Vietnam has** DYNASTIC RULERS **rulers, influenced by** CHINA

LATE 1800s – **Vietnam is a** FRENCH **colony ~** FRENCH INDOCHINA

1930s – **communist revolts led by** HO CHI MINH **– Ho Chi Minh flees to China and USSR**

1940s – **Ho Chi Minh forms** VIETMINH **party in order to liberate Vietnam – declare independence in 1945**

1954 – **Vietminh successfully** DEFEAT **French in north Vietnam and establish communist government in north**

1954 – **Vietnam is split** TEMPORARILY **by the Geneva Accords, with free elections to be held in 1956 to unite the nation**

LATE 1950s – CIVIL WAR **in Vietnam between Communist North and American-supported South**

Sent economic and military aid to France to help them keep their colonies in Indochina || **EISENHOWER** Felt that if one country falls to communism then others would follow
 * PRESIDENTIAL INVOLVEMENT **
 * [[image:turningpoints/hst.gif align="left" caption="hst.gif"]] || [[image:turningpoints/dde.gif align="left" caption="dde.gif"]] || [[image:turningpoints/lfk.gif align="left" caption="lfk.gif"]] || [[image:turningpoints/lbj.gif align="left" caption="lbj.gif"]] ||
 * **TRUMAN**

Ngo Dinh Diem leads South Vietnam won't hold free elections

Helped establish a puppet state in south Vietnam || KENNEDY U.S. supports an overthrow Ngo 1963

Continued to send advisors at his death there were 16,000 americans in vietnam || **JOHNSON** Commits US more fully to the war in Vietnam

Originally sends a few more advisors ||


 * =** The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution **=

Pesident can take all necessary measures to protect American forces and prevent further aggression Passes unanimously in the house and has 2 opposing votes in the senate || || ||
 * Sec. of Defense Robert McNamera || ||


 * [[image:http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/0bbab3dff8455159bcacb94c240ceb82_1M.png caption="external image 0bbab3dff8455159bcacb94c240ceb82_1M.png"]] || =** Operation Rolling Thunder **=

notes ||

= =
 * = American ground troops enter Vietnam =

notes || ||

My questions about the Vietnam War: