Agent Orange
Why call a herbicide "Agent Orange"?
Due to the color-coding system -> the gallons having orange stripes for recognition
In this year the US and North Vietnam officials unsuccessfully tried to set peace by meeting in Paris.
Spring 1968
Why were Russia and China supporting North Vietnam?
Due to having similar ideology and the same enemy
-> Cold War rivalry, proxy wars
Agent Orange destroyed this type of natural vegetation.
Forests, jungle
What kind of protests emerged due to the Vietnam War?
peace protests - hippie movement
What was the total amount of gallons/liters of Agent Orange sprayed during the Vietnam War?
approx. 20 million gallons - 76 million liters
The chemical spraying campaign occurred over this many years.
1962-1971 -> 9 years
What was USA's interest?
Stopping the expansion of communism
-> the Domino-Theorie
Dioxin in Agent Orange remains in soil and water for this long.
decades
How many American soldiers suffered from PTSD and therefore fell more easily into drug abuse?
700,000 - 900,000
When did US involvement with ground troops start and why?
1965 - the Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964)
The government of Vietnam estimates this many people have suffered illness because of Agent Orange.
3 Million
These were the main purposes for using Agent Orange.
Defoliating forests to reduce enemy cover and destroying the food supply of the population
In this year the Viet Cong successfully took over South Vietnam after US' withdraw in 1973
1975
How many American military personell served in South Vietnam during the entire conflict?
approx. 2,7 million
Exposure to Agent Orange can have these kind of long term effects.
cancer, birth defects, diabetes, earlier onsets of dementia