Vietnam+War

//1960-1975 // ||  || //John F. Kennedy // //Lyndon B. Johnson // //Richard Nixon // //William Westmoreland // //Creighton ////Abrams // //Robert McNamara // ||  || //communist expansion // ||  || //The Cold War that was happening around the world, the red scare, and the fear of the spread of communism // ||  || Vietnam (Theaters of War) ||  || //Laserguided bomb // //modern light machine guns // //M16 // //Better helicopters // //AK-47 // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">snipers // ||  || //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">February 1950 — Truman supports French government in Vietnam  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">August 1950 — Truman sends first military advisers to Vietnam May 1954 — North Vietnamese prevail at Dien Bien Phu  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">July 21, 1954 — Geneva Conference splits Vietnam at the 17th parallel  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1961 — JFK initiates Operation Farm Gate and sends Green Berets to Vietnam  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">May 1963 — Buddhist protest of  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Diem regime at Tu Dam pagoda November 2, 1963 — deposed South Vietnamese President Diem is assassinated  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">June 1964 — William Westmoreland put in control of U.S. military forces  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">August 1964 — Gulf of Tonkin incident  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1965-1968 — Operation Rolling Thunder airstrikes  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1966 — Operation Van Buren at Phu Yen marks beginning of “search and destroy”  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1966-1968 — widespread protest of the Vietnam War  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1968 — Tet offensive touches off widespread protests in the United States  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1968 — Phoenix Program prioritizes capture and interrogation of Vietcong November  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1969 — news of My Lai massacre breaks  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">May1970 — Kent State tragedy 1971-1973 — U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">1973 — U.S. military draft terminated  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">April 21, 1975 — South Vietnamese President Thieu resigns  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">April 29-30, 1975 — Helicopter evacuations from the U.S. embassy in Saigon  // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">July 2, 1976 — North and South Vietnam unified under communist rule  // ||   || the Vietnam war has been called a "living room war". Much of the war was televised and therefore, people of America had many opinions during this time. Americans were eventually not allowed to say how they felt about the war, and Vietnamese citizens in the US were sometimes deported, but many times, they were tortured. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">(Note: this should be one of the longer sections -- recall that the AP people rarely test on battles, but spend lots of time on the homefront!) ||  || //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">the draft was gotten rid of // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">18 year olds got the right to vote // ||  || http://www.ahctv.com/battles-history/videos/vietnam-war.htm
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Dates of US Involvement in War: //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Primary Combatants: //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Long Term Causes of War: //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Immediate Events Leading t ////<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">o War: //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Countries/Territories Where the Fighting Took Place: //
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Key Battles: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">battle of ap bac **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">battle of la brang valley **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">battle of khe sanh **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">the tet offensive **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">battle of hamburger Hill **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">easter offensive **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">battle of xuan loc **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">the fall of saigon ** ||  ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Key Technologies: //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Major Events of War: //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Homefront: //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Peace Treaty/Settlement: "The Paris Peace Accords" 1973. An agreement to cease fire // ||  ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Long Term Outcomes/Implications of War: //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Additional Media to Help Us Understand the War: //

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">(pictures, movies, audio, charts/graphs, students created work) ||  ||