Table of Contents

vocabulary... 3-4

Early Years of Vietnam... 5-6

The Year of 1968... 7-8

Later Years of Vietnam... 9-13

1960's culture... 13-17

Vietnam Timeline 18

Nixon's Presidency

Fords & Carter's Presidency

Ronald Reagan's presidency...

George HW. Bush & Bill Clinton

George W. Bush & Barack Obama...

Vocabulary

Agent Orange- A toxic leaf-killing chemical sprayed by U.S. planes in Vietnam to expose Vietcong hideouts

Credibility Gap- a term used by skeptics to question the truthfulness of government.

Dien Bien Phu- First Indochina war

Geneva Accords- french agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution- authorized president Johnson to take the necessary measures to prevent further aggression.

Ho Minh Chi Trail- A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport

Napalm- a mixture of a gelling agent and gasoline.

Ngo Dinh Diem- Prime minister of the state of Vietnam.

Pentagon Papers- a 7,000 page document leaked to the press in 1971 by the Daniel Ellsberg revealing that the U.S. government had not been honest about its intentions in the Vietnam war.

Silent Majority- a name given by president Nixon to the moderate, mainstream American who quietly supported his Vietnam war policies.

Vietcong- South Vietnamese communist with North Vietnamese fought against the government of SV.

War Powers Act- a Law enacted in 1973, limiting a president's right to send troops into battle without consulting congress.

Vocabulary

-America got involved in the Vietnam War to prevent a communist takeover of south Vietnam.

• Robert McNamara was an American business executive and the eight secretary of defense, serving JFK & LBJ from 1961-1968. He played a major role in escalating the USA involvement in the Vietnam War.

-The Gulf of Tokin gave President Johnson the power to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in Southeast Asia

Early Years of Vietnam

April 4, 1968

• MLKJ was staying in at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He was shot by james Earl Ray. The motel was owned by Walter Bailey and named after his wife.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Bobby Kennedy

June 5, 1968

Bobby was short by Sirhan Sirhan after midnight PTD at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. In the 1968 election he won the California presidential primaries.

The Tet Offensive

January 30, 1968- September 23, 1968

Uprising of a Tet Mau Than in 1968 by North Vietnam and the NLF. Largest millitary campaign of the Vietnam War. This weakened the public support of the war.

Walter Cronkite

February 20, 1968

Walter Cronkite spoke for the last 3 minutes of the broadcast expressing his opinion on The Tet Offensive rather than reading off the teleprompter. At the time, he was known as "The most trusted man in America".

Nixon's Strategy's

Nixon's strategy to end the US involvement in Vietnam was to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of US combat troops." This was known as Vietnamization.

Kent State

Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970 when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire during a Vietnam War protest.

My Lai Massacre

On Mardch 16, 1968, military brutally executed hundreds of alleged members and supporters of the 48th Battalion of the NFL.

When did we leave Vietnam?

Direct involvement from the U.S. ended August 15, 1973.