Vietnam+The+Path+to+War




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

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

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


 * PRESIDENTIAL INVOLVEMENT **
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 * **TRUMAN**
 * Sent econmic and military**
 * aid to france tohelp them**
 * keep their colonies in Idocchina** || **EISENHOWER**
 * felt that if one country falls to**
 * communism others would fallow**
 * the domino effet helped/ establish**
 * puppet state in south- lead by**
 * Ngo Dinh Diem** || **KENNEDY**
 * USA supports an overthrow**
 * of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963**
 * Doesnt want to be soft on Communism**
 * Continued to send advisors at death** || **JOHNSON**
 * Commits USA more fully to the war in Vietnam**
 * Originally sends a few more advisors** ||


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

south Vietnam boats get in a fight with north Vietnam and usa says they got attacked USA then gets involved with the fight asks for a blank check and he gets it. ||  ||  ||
 * Sec. of Defense Robert McNamera ||  ||


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

More bombs dropped than Germany in WW2 1965 #,500 marines join 20,000+ military ADVISORS ||

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 * = American ground troops enter Vietnam =

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