apush 3_23 vietnam
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Announcements
• Quiz Thursday
• AP Test
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Country Joe & the Fish
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Well, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in VietnamSo put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam; And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
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Come on Wall Street, don't be slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of its trade,
But just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam. And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
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Well, come on generals, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Now you can go out and get those reds
'Cause the only good commie is the one that's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam; And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
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Student Movement
• Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) founded 1960
• Free Speech protests at UC
Berkeley, 1964-5• Hippie movement: free love, use
of drugs, anti-war protest
• Summer of Love, 1967 –months-long hippie gathering in
San Francisco, CA
• Woodstock, 1969 – music
festival in New York
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Escalation of the Vietnam War
• Napalm & Agent
Orange (an
herbicide) used for
deforestation
• Draft
– Almost 650,000
young men drafted
– Led to draft-dodging
& student protest
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“Infiltration will slow; the
Communist infrastructure will
be cut up and near collapse;
the Vietnamese Governmentwill prove its stability, and the
Vietnamese army will show
that it can handle the
Vietcong; United States unitscan begin to phase down.”
- General Westmoreland,
Nov. 1967
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1968
• Tet Offensive: January 1968
massive attack by North
Vietnamese and National
Liberation Front (NLF/Viet Cong) – Attacks defeated by US but made
Johnson very unpopular
• My Lai Massacre: US massacre
of unarmed village in 1968,published in Time Magazine in
1969
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1968
• Tet Offensive: January 1968
massive attack by North
Vietnamese and National
Liberation Front (NLF/Viet Cong) – Attacks defeated by US but made
Johnson very unpopular
• My Lai Massacre: US massacre
of unarmed village in 1968,published in Time Magazine in
1969
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1968
• Election of 1968
– Johnson decides not to
run for re-election
– Robert Kennedy (anti-war,pro-civil rights) leading
Democratic candidate
– Richard Nixon nominated
by Republicans – George Wallace
(segregationist) runs as
independent
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1968
• Election of 1968
– Johnson decides not to
run for re-election
– Robert Kennedy (anti-war,pro-civil rights) leading
Democratic candidate
– Richard Nixon nominated
by Republicans – George Wallace
(segregationist) runs as
independent
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1968
• Assassinations
– MLK (April)
– Robert Kennedy (June)
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1968
• Democratic Convention in
Chicago
– Hubert Humphrey nominated
– Massive student protests leadto police violence
• Nixon wins election
– Had a “secret plan” to end
Vietnam War
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Nixon & Vietnam
• De-escalation
– Gradual withdrawal of US
forces
– Vietnamization: training ofSouth Vietnamese army
– Massive bombing of North
Vietnam, Cambodia
• Kent State: studentprotests at Kent State
University turn deadly, 4
killed by national guard
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Nixon & Vietnam
• “Peace with Honor” – 1973, US made
peace with North Vietnam, which
recognized South Vietnamese government
• Fall of Saigon – 1975 defeat of South
Vietnam