Vietnam




 * 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**

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 economic and military**
 * aid to france to help their**
 * colonies in Indochina** || **EISENHOWER**
 * **Felt that if one country falls** **to**
 * communism, then**


 * **Helped establish a puppet**
 * state in south vietnam and sent**
 * military sdvisors to help**


 * **Ngo Dinh Diem leads south**
 * vietnam-****won't** || **KENNEDY**
 * **U.S. supports an overthrow**


 * **Doesn't want to be soft on**
 * communism**


 * **Continued to send advisors**
 * - at** || **JOHNSON**
 * Commits the US more fully**
 * to war** ||


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

and only has 2 opposing votes in the senate. || || ||
 * Passes unanimously in the house
 * Sec. of Defense Robert McNamera || ||


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

Thunder were they would drop boom after boom after boom. city in Vietnam than they did in Europe in World War 2. ||
 * After the war they did operation Rolling
 * They dropped more booms on a small

= =
 * = American ground troops enter Vietnam  =

notes || ||

My questions about the Vietnam War: