HI 112, fall 2011 Tona Hangen Worcester State http://tonahangen.com/wsc/us2 Vietnam War: An Overview

Ho Chi Minh (North) Ngo Dingh Diem (South), with President Eisenhower

Gulf of Tonkin Danang USS Maddox Gulf of Tonkin Incident July 1964 Suicide of Thich Quang Duc 11 June 1963, Saigon

Airpower: bomb NV military facilities and supply lines (Ho Chi Minh trail) 2) Ground troops: search&destroy missions against Vietcong and NV in South Vietnam, goal = kill enemy soldiers faster than they could be replaced 3) Govt of SV under General Nguyen Van Theiu: assign South Vietnam’s army to hold cleared territory, to “pacify the countryside” 4) Destroy & defoliate South Vietnam so it would be useless to North Vietnam American Strategy in Vietnam

1968: DNC, Chicago

Election of 1964 Johnson Goldwater

Election of 1968 Nixon Humphrey Wallace

Lt. William Calley My Lai Massacre, 16 March 1968

Kent State (Ohio), 4 May 1970

Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 19 -23 April 1971

Daniel Ellsburg, during trial for leaking the Pentagon Papers, January 1973

Americans evacuating from Saigon, 29 April 1975