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Notes: 22-1
Map of Vietnam War
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Review
What was Frances role in
Vietnam?
How did it get that way?
Chapter 22 Section 1
Start of Vietnam War
Breakin it down
Chapter Main Idea: The United States becomes locked in a military stalemate
in Southeast Asia. U.S. forces withdraw after a decade of heavy war casualties
abroad and assassinations and antiwar demonstrations at home.
Essential Question: How did the Vietnam War impact life in the United
States?
Main Idea: To stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, the United
States uses its military to support South Vietnam.
Why it Matters Now: The United States support role in Vietnam began what
would become Americas longest and most controversial war in its history.
U.S. Involved
Diem Cancels Elections
Ho has brutal, repressive regime but is
popular for land distribution
S. Vietnams anti-Communist president Ngo
Dinh Diem refuses election
U.S. promises military aid for stable,
reform government in South
Diem corrupt, stifles opposition, restricts
Buddhism
Vietcong (Communist opposition group in
South) kills officials
Ho sends arms to Vietcong along
Ho Chi Minh Trail
U.S. Involved
Kennedy and Vietnam
Like Eisenhower, JFK backs Diem financially; sends
military advisers
Diems popularity plummets from corruption, lack of
land reform
Diem starts strategic hamlet program to fight Vietcong
villagers resent being moved from ancestral homes
Alleged attack in Gulf of Tonkin; LBJ asks for power to repel enemy
1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution gives him broad military powers
1965 8 Americans killed, LBJ orders sustained bombing of North
U.S. combat troops sent to S. Vietnam to battle Vietcong
Essential Question:
Was the United States justified in its actions
during the Vietnam War?
Gulf of Tonkin
Focus on these three questions as we read. Once we are done,
you must answer ONE question fully. This needs to be a well
structured and supported paragraph.
Had the USS Maddox provoked the attack?
Was LBJ fully informed of the events?
Did the United States make the decision to enter Vietnam too quickly?
Explain!
Fridays Worksheet
Assignment
Read letter together
Answer ALL questions in complete sentences
Do not even think of copyingstarting now.
We are grading the back side together in
____ Minutes