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Vietnam Presentations
How does your topic connect to the Vietnam War?
Self Determination
Self DeterminationA free, open-minded, and
absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims,
based upon a strict observance of the principle that in
determining all such questions of
sovereignty the interests of the
populations concerned must
have equal weight with the equitable
claims of the government whose
title is to be determined.
French Indochina
Imperialism Link
Guess and connect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA
Imperialism
Did I ever tell you how the Vietnamese dance?
Russian Revolution
Where is the next slide from?
LeninImperialism is
the highest level of
capitalism. Capitalism
needs more markets and
must expand! So….
Back to the Cold War Power Point
Japan Occupies Indochina During WWII
French Indochina War 1946-1954
Look at those silly fans
Must be warm to dance with all that
on
Must be warm to dance with all that
on
Dien Bien Phu (ends the war)
We will defeat the French and kick them out!
1954 Geneva AccordsSplits country in two (temporarily)
Calls for elections in both North and South to reunify the entire country in 1956 (two years after)
Ho Chi Minh’s Letter to Truman 1946
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence 1945
• They have enforced inhuman laws; they have set up three distinct political regimes in the North, the Center, and the South of Vietnam in order to wreck our national unity and prevent our people from being united.
• They have built more prisons than schools. They have mercilessly slain our patriots; they have drowned our uprisings in rivers of blood.
• They have fettered public opinion; they have practised obscurantism against our people.• To weaken our race they have forced us to use opium and alcohol.• In the field of economics, they have fleeced us to the backbone, impoverished our people, and devastated
our land.• They have robbed us of our rice fields, our mines, our forests, and our raw materials. They have
monopolized the issuing of bank notes and the export trade.• They have invented numerous unjustifiable taxes and reduced our people, especially our peasantry, to a
state of extreme poverty.• They have hampered the prospering of our national bourgeoisie; they have mercilessly exploited our
workers.• For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam,
solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country-and in fact is so already. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.
Vietnamese NationalismFrom the Vietnamese perspective, what was this
war about? Connect to Dream Deferred. What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.Or does it explode?
Ho Chi Minh 1890-1969 Education
Ho Chi Minh as a Communist
Ngo Dinh Diem 1901-1963
First President of South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem and US Support1901-Supported by the US (President Eisenhower)
Gulf of Tonkin August 1964 USS Turner Joy
Robert Macnamara
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964
Resolution• "To promote the maintenance of international peace and security in Southeast Asia.• "Whereas naval units of the communist regime in Vietnam, in violation of the principles of
the Charter of the United Nations and of international law, have deliberately and repeatedly attacked United States naval vessels lawfully present in international waters, and have thereby created a serious threat to international peace; and
• "Whereas these attacks are part of a deliberate and systematic campaign of aggression that the communist regime in North Vietnam has been waging against its neighbors and the nations joined with them in the collective defense of their freedom; and
• "Whereas the United States is assisting the peoples of Southeast Asia to protect their freedom and has no territorial, military or political ambitions in that area, but desires only that these peoples should be left in peace to work out their own destinies in their own way: Now, therefore, be it
• "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.
Lyndon B. Johnson in Office 1963-1969
Johnson and Escalation after Gulf of Tonkin
Escalation
Tet Holiday The festival which best epitomizes Vietnam's cultural identity is
Vietnamese New Year or Tet
Tet Offensive January of 1968US troops fighting in Saigon
South Vietnamese troops capture a Vietcong fighter during the attacks
Tet Offensive Continued
Meanwhile In AmericaCould you believe what those South
Vietnamese soldiers did to that prisoner?
How could we support such a government?
Search and Destroy Missions
How the US military was fighting in Vietnam
Wake up!Load up the helicopters
Exit the helicopterLook for the enemy
Ask the enemy if they are the enemy
Are you supporting the North?
My Lai Massacre March 16, 1968
Meanwhile In AmericaCould you believe
what our troops did in that village?
Pentagon Papers 1947-1967Published in 1971 (Nixon was President )
Tunnel Rats
Ho Chi Minh 1890-1969
President of Democratic Republic of VietnamAdvocating and leading for Vietnamese Independence since WWI
1968 ElectionMy Great Society has
been overshadowed by that war in
Vietnam
Vietnamization
I Richard Nixon will help America out of the Turbulent 60s.
As for the war in Vietnam I will let the
South fight the ground war and…
Bomb Vietnam using Operation Linebacker
Robert McNamara 1961-1968 Secretary of Defense
There are limited resources and soldiers fighting for the
Vietnamese. Therefore, we will fight a war of attrition. Eventually,
they will run out.
1969 Draft Lottery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p5X1FjyD_g
Estimated 125, 000 left the country to avoid service
650,000 drafted during the Vietnam War
Lon Nol Prime Minister in Cambodia
Cambodia 1970-1975A civil war erupts in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge wants to remove Lon Nol from power. The Khmer Rouge were communists led by Pol Pot
What will the United States do in Cambodia?
Pol Pot removes Lon Nol in 1975
I am going to kill
everybody!
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Tunnels go from North through Cambodia and into the South
The US has no authority in Cambodia
The US cannot win in Vietnam without dealing with the tunnels in Cambodia
What to do?
Bomb Cambodia and support Lon Nol
Paris Peace Accords 1973
• Bombing Halt• Withdrawal of US troops• Determine the fate of the South• US to rebuild
Operation Frequent Wind the US leaves Vietnam in 1975