Vietnam+Notes




 * A BRIEF HISTORY OF VIETNAM [[image:turningpoints/vietnamsill.gif align="right"]]**

Pre 1800s – **Vietnam has dynasty rulers, influenced by China**

LATE 1800s – **Vietnam is a French colony**

1930s – **communist revolts led by Ho Chi Minh – Ho Chi Minh flees to China and USSR**

1940s – **Ho Chi Minh forms Vietminh party in order to liberate Vietnam – declare independence in 1945**

1954 – **Vietminh successfully defeat French in north Vietnam and establish communist government in north**

1954 – **Vietnam is split temporarily by the Geneva Accords, with free elections to be held in 1956 to unite the nation**

LATE 1950s – **Civil War in Vietnam between Communist North and American-supported South**


 * PRESIDENTIAL INVOLVEMENT **
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 * **TRUMAN**
 * notes-Sent economic**
 * and military aid to**
 * France to help them**
 * keep their colonies**
 * in Indochina** || **EISENHOWER**
 * notes-Helped establish a**
 * puppet-state in South Vietnam**
 * and sent military advisors**
 * to help in the South** || **KENNEDY**
 * notes-Doesn't want to**
 * be soft on Communism**


 * Continued to send advisers-at his death,**
 * there was 16,00 American**
 * Troops in Vietnam** || **JOHNSON**
 * notes-Wants to stay out of it in Vietnam** ||


 * =** The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution **=

notes-Allows him to take any and all measures to prevent further aggression against American Ships(blank check) ||  ||  ||
 * Sec. of Defense Robert McNamera ||  ||


 * [[image:http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/0bbab3dff8455159bcacb94c240ceb82_1M.png]] || =** Operation Rolling Thunder **=

notes-Drop more bombs than they do on north Vietnam then all of England during WWII. ||

= =
 * = American ground troops enter Vietnam =

notes || ||

My questions about the Vietnam War: