page 2- Table of contents

page 3 and 4-vocabulary

page 5 and 6-Early years

page 7 and 8-1968

page 9 and 10-later years

page 11 and 12-1960s culture

page 13- Timeline

page 14-Nixon

page 15-Ford and Carter

page 16-Reagan

page 17-George H. W. Bush

page 18-Bill Clinton

page 19-George W. Bush

page 20-Barrack Obama

Vocabulary

My Lai Massacre: a village in northern south vietnam where more then 200 unarmed civilians, including women and children, were massacred by US troops in may 1968

Kent State University:an Ohio university where national guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the war on May 4, 1970, wounding 9 and killing 4

Pentagon Papers: a 7,000 page document- leaked to the press in 1971 by the former defense department worker Daniel Eillsberg- revealing the the US gov. had not been truthful about its intentions in the war.

War Powers Act: A law enacted in 1973, limiting a presidents rights to send troops into battle without consulting congress.

Ho Chi Minh: the indochinese communist party's leader

Dien Bien Phu: where the vietnamese overran the French outpost

Geneva Accords: A 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into communist- controlled North and non- communist was south

Ngo Dinh Diem: Soth Vietnam president

Vietcong: A communist opposition group in the South

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: Authorized LBJ to take necessary measures to retaliate if needed

Ho Chi Minh Trail: A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the vietcong in South Vietnam

Napalm: A gasoline-based substance used in bombs the the US plans dropped in Vietnam in order to burn away jungle and expose Vietcong hideouts.

Agent Orange: A leaf- killing toxic chemical

Credibility Gap: A public distrust of statements made by the government.

Vietnamization: A plan that called for gradual withdraws of US troops

Early Years

After President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of US forces in 1973, Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.

Robert McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy. the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.

men of draft age (between 18-25 years), this was unfair because its very limited and it was only men not women. This was different than other US wars because it was not a war to take territory. The US was fighting in a friendly country, trying to destroy an insurgency.

1968

MLK was assented on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennesse. King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck.

Bobby Kennedy was assented Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, on June 5, 1968.

Tet offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam on Jan 30, 1968 – Sep 23, 1968

Walter Cronkite’s spreading word about the Tet Offensive opinion mattered so much because on Febuary 27, 1968 he told the world Who won and who lost in the great Tet Offensive against the cities.

later years

Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program. kent state was an Ohio university where national guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the war on May 4, 1970, wounding 9 and killing 4. The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people women, children and old men in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. March 29, 1973 US troops left.

people coming home where treated poorly, this was partly due to the logistics of the never-ending conflict. People were mad that the was was going on. Records of 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War. The United States spent about $168 billion overall.

1960's culture

A hippie is someone who lives very free spirited and normally has long hair and does drugs.

3 topics I have seen are....

1. Los Angolas (LA)
2. LSD (acid)
3. music festivals