Why did America Lose the Vietnam War

What were the objectives of the Americans in Vietnam?

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Operation Rolling Thunder

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTxrq_Erw-k

Why could airpower

not be decisive in the

Vietnam War?

Body Count and Fragging?

Tactics and Strategic Hamlets

Operation Ranch Hand

Tet Offensive

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDNJL0mTHWI

• The Viet Cong lost 37,000 men while US forces were only 2,500. Why then was it considered a Vietcong victory.

Burning the Village: My Lai 1968

1968 Democratic Convention

US Troops

Protest Grows

Ho Chi Minh Trail and Cambodia

Paris Peace Conference

Kent State: May 4 1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVMGKOFIwY&ob=av2e

Vietnamisation

Operation Linebacker

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wfWbTIpWFU&feature=related