Vietnam!+The+Path




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

Pre 1800s – **Vietnam has Dynastic rulers, influenced by**

LATE 1800s – **Vietnam is a French colony**

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**


 * PRESIDENTIAL INVOLVEMENT **
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 * **TRUMAN**
 * Sends economic**
 * + military aid to**
 * France to fight**
 * Communism.** || **EISENHOWER**
 * Domino theroy!**
 * One falls, and so**
 * do the rest! S.**
 * Vientam becomes**
 * a puppet states.**
 * Corrupt American**
 * leader (Roman C-**
 * -atholic) prosecutes**
 * Buhddism. Send**
 * military advisors.** || **KENNEDY**
 * Sends military**
 * advisors,**
 * overthrows**
 * corrupt dude.**
 * Not soft on**
 * Communism,**
 * 16,000 military**
 * advisors in**
 * Vietnam.** || **JOHNSON**
 * Tension is escalating,**
 * no troops deployed yet.**
 * South Vientnam/ North**
 * Vietnam attack each**
 * other, 2 US ships sunk.**
 * Typical miltary manuvers,**
 * Suspicion around the**
 * ships skyrockets. Necesary and**
 * proper clause!!! Only two senators**
 * oppose! A blank check to wage war!** ||


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

We can war without Congressional approval. ||  ||  ||
 * Sec. of Defense Robert McNamera ||  ||


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

Bombs bombs bombs bombs. Huge, monstorous levels of bombs. ||

= =
 * = American ground troops enter Vietnam =

3,500 American troops. || ||

My questions about the Vietnam War: