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Vietnam Conflict
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many troops in total did the US send to vietnam? | 3 million |
| How may troops did the US lose? | 60,000 |
| How much money did tax payers spend? | 150 billions |
| How much more bomage was dropped in vietnam than the WW2? | 3x |
| What caused further effects than lost soilders? | Division of american society. loss of respect for elected leaders. tarnished our apperance abroad |
| length of war? | 65-73; longest in US hhistory; |
| goal of US? result? | containing communism; didnt accomplish this |
| 3 countries that controlled vietnam? | chineses, frech, japanese |
| why did china controlle vietnam 2000 years ago? | fertile farmland |
| 1500's in vetnam? | europeans arrived in search of spices and eventually to convert the vietnamese to christians; when they were attaced by locals french stepped in a gradually took control. |
| when did communist independence occure? | 1941 |
| Revolutionary leader? | Ho chi minh |
| Vietnminh? | leauge for indpenedence of vietnam - Ho's |
| When did vietnam celebrate brief indeoendence? | 1945 |
| Who did the US support at the beginning of tehh war? | French |
| French Indochina War. | in 1950 china began to flood into vietnam for the vietminh, Battle of Dienbienphu |
| Battle of Dienbienphu | major loss for French against vietminh - 1954;; 50,000 vietminh bombared 13,000 french troops for 2 months;; Geneva accords took place |
| Temporary division in vietnam? | Geneva Accords |
| What was held to reunify vietnam? | free elections |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | US supported; non communist; ppl in poverty; kennedy took him out! |
| Domino Theory? | if all vietnam fell to communism than so would all surrounding countries |
| veitcong | "vietnamese commie" surviving members of vietminh. revolutionary party that fights US in war |
| Who did eisenhow support? how? when? | Diem; 1954-60; Money, advisors, and CIA agents |
| hwo much does kennedy increase the troops by? | from 1500 to 16,000. advisors, not combat |
| what was done in protest of Diem's govt? | buddist lights himself one fire int he middle of a street in Saigon |
| What did kennedy do to Diem? | Coup; ousted him and Johnson became preseident. |
| What did johnson do about the wawr? | SUpport S vietnam |
| what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin? | US Moddox was fired at by PT boat, so we sunk it |
| What did gulf of tonking do? johnson did what? | rose war popularity; order airstrikes and secret missions into NV camps |
| Gulf of tonkin resoultion? | gave the pres. all authority to take necessary measures against forces that threatened US |
| what allowed johnson to send troops into combat wihtoua formall declaration of war? | gulf of tonkin resolution |
| what is the ARVN? | forces of SV backed by US |
| Operation rolling thunder; what? year? | systematic bombings on the ho chi minh trial in Laos; round the clock raids; 1965 |
| how many US troops by 68? | 540,000 |
| Elusive enemy? | Quick strike then retreat |
| What strategy did Westmorland have? | Attrition: kill so many of them that they can no longer fight |
| What was the toll on civilians? | US killed more civilians in the S than the N throught bombing raids. |
| TET Offensive? | a nationwide attack on over 100 cities coordinated by the communists in the north. |
| Turning point in the war? | TET offensive |
| redult of TET? | US and ARVN regained all cities; suppport for the US and Saigon govt was weaker than ever. |
| HAwes? | upported war; |
| Doves | saw war as a civil war amounf vietnamese and US didnt need to be involved. |
| Anitwar movement. where? what? President? | pentagon, peace movement throughout nation; Kennedy brings moevemtn to democratic party |
| draft dodgers? | moved to Canada or went to college. |
| election of 1968? | nixon; planned ending of war |
| Vietnamization | handing over reigns to SV forces; gradual withdrawal of US forces |
| Invasion of cambodia | US involved communist supported camos in cambodia. KENT STATE protest = national guard responded to student protest and some students killed |
| ___ years of peace talk came to an end in ___? | 3 years; 1972 |
| final settlement date? | January 27th, 1973 |
| what happened 2 years afeter the settlement? | N vietnam took over S vietnam; communists took over cambodia and laos. |
| Robert McNamara | secretary of defense under both kennedy and johnson;; architect of the war. |
| Henry Kissinger | Secretary of state under Nixon; brought on trial for mass murders in cambodia at the end of the war. |
| My Lai massacre? | US troops killed 128 women kids and old men for fear of communist ties; 3350 killed |
| order of presidents involved in war - 5 | johnson; truman; kennedy; nixon; eisenhower |
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