The United States in Vietnam The American Revolution HIS

The United States in Vietnam the American Revolution UNITED STATES in Vietnam : Foreign Policy as Cultural History - Green Bars - 1968 - Somehow a patriotic film - Approved by the government - Shows the heroic side of Vietnam - Opening scene ' A song about how the Green Beret is the best in America. - mindset during World War II throughout the film Fetishization of soldiers A journalist is against the war, but they convince him - Muhammad Ali - After he was indicted and served a prison sentence for skipping the draft "My enemy is the white people" - Why fight for yourself when you don't do it Fight for me - I repeat : W.E.B.DuBois – Jimi Hendrix’s machine gun – 1970 – served in Vietnam - First hand soldier from Vietnam And the USA - This is Indochina - The French Oolon - Helping the French colony to keep the colony and thereby strengthening the NATO agreement - We wanted him also prevent them from becoming a communist - Weapons and other supplies were sent to France during the war - 1,954 - Stay in the United States - I vow not to hold elections so that Ho Chi Minh does not win and be perceived as a communist - Seats for Ngo Dinh Diem to rule Wetnam I am very against I can't get anything done I Ineffective - Americans don't know Netnam - Problems : Supporting a terrible leader Ngo Dinh Diemffi fights against a powerful folk hero Ho Chi Minh - Kennedy sends many more troops to Vietnam - Johnson wages an all-out war at 196 feet - long war but we believe we can escape by 1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder - in many places - destroy Ho Chi Minh - in In the end, more bombs were dropped on Vietnam than in the entire Second World War. – Ground troops dispatched to protect bases from Thunder. - 1967-1968 Operation Seder Falls : Killed all suspected communists and destroyed the, these remained. - Progress Continues The cards are based on the number of casualties - how many died in Vietnam - Lyndon Johnson decides not to flee in the face of the Tet Offensive I Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh - Fight for a free and independent Vietnam I American official honorary title and fighter against the Japanese I Independence Charter almost identical to the Declaration of Independence of or the Independence Movement - Fought against Japanese and therefore should gain independence - Viet Minh - means independence for Vietnam - try to overthrow Diệm - use guerrilla tactics or ambush tactics - underground Tunnel for transporting weapons - Battle of Dien Vien Fhu - 1954 - Vietnam expels the French - Division - South and North Vietnam - elections planned for 1956 Unification of North and South Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh will win or Arvien ~ the Vietnamese army - North Vietnam begins to prepare for the American invasion - National Liberation Movement - Diem regime dissidents - Patchwork coalition of numerous different people - called Viet Com (short for Vietnam communists) - Strategic Hamlets - relocating entire villages to avoid the FNL - made it easier for the US to convince the farmers that they needed to be saved by Diệm and the FNL of 196 feet. - Coup in Saigon - Retention of power in South Vietnam is ceded to the United States. Objectives - 1965 - FNL continues to expand - begins transporting weapons along roads - moves south – 1967 - Destroyed agricultural base begins importing rice instead of exporting - 1968 - Tet Offensive - attack urban Areas including Saigon - very well done - The Objectives The War of completely changed the fortunes of Vietnam. -1968 – My Lai massacre – 45-504 unarmed South Vietnamese citizens killed I Japan - Sent in during World War ii to destroy French colony - US. defeats Japan and allies send in soldiers to defeat Japanese And the French o I fought against the Allient in World War II - we won, so we should keep the colony - install puppet rulers in Vietnam - fighting breaks out - lasts 9 years - Vietnam in winning.