The Vietnam War
What were four impacts of the Vietnam War? What program did Vietnam begin in the 1980's and what did they NOT pursue?
Over 2,000,000 Vietnamese deaths. Over 58,000 American deaths. American society divided. The land land was devastated by bombs, napalm, and defoliants.
A program of economic privatization and encouraged foreign investment. No political liberties for their citizens.
Who were the Viet Cong?
South Vietnamese Communists guerillas.
What is the danger of the "invisibility" of modern wars?
Leadership does not have to be held morally accountable.
What was Nixon's policy of Vietnamization?
To train the South Vietnamese forces to handle the conflict on their own
What was French Indochina?
The territories of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
What doubts later emerged regarding the Turner Joy and the Gulf of Tonkin?
Whether or not the attack had even taken place.
What can some people visualize regarding the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago in 1968?
Who were Nixon's "silent majority"?
Those who weren't protesting the war
What happened at Dien Bien Phu in 1954?
The French were defeated by the Vietnamese?
What was Operation Rolling Thunder?
The U.S. bombing campaign of North Vietnam
What happened at the "Battle of Michigan Avenue"?
Why did Dr. Ellsberg decide to leak the Pentagon Papers to the press?
He felt the Nixon administration was continuing a pattern of deception and escalation
Why did President Johnson ask the Congress for permission to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina?
Two U.S. ships radioed they had come under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
What did television reduce?
The space between the battlefield and the viewer.
How did Mayor Daley of Chicago, respond to the anti-war protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
Pushed for National Guardsmen and U.S. Army units to support the police
What happened on April 30, 1975?
North Vietnamese Communist forces captured Saigon and unified the nation under their rule
What was the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to the Johnson and Nixon administrations?
What did military leaders at the Pentagon have to think about when the war was over?
How to change how wars are covered on television.
How did the Vietnam War affect President Johnson's reelection campaign?
It knocked him out of the campaign