Vietnam-path




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

Pre 1800s – **Vietnam has dynastic 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 defeats 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 – **War in Vietnam between Communist North and American-supported South**


 * PRESIDENTIAL INVOLVEMENT **
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 * **TRUMAN**
 * Sent economic and military aid to**
 * france to help them keep their colonies**
 * in indochina** || **EISENHOWER**
 * Helped establish a puppet state in**
 * south vietnam and sent military advisors.**
 * Ngo Dinh Diem leads S. Vietnam-**
 * won't hold free elections.** || **KENNEDY**
 * U.S. supports an overthrow of Ngo.**
 * Doesn't want to be soft on Communism. Continued to**
 * send advisors- at his death,**
 * there were 16,000 Americans in Vietnam** || **JOHNSON**
 * Not going to send troops and**
 * we're not going to make it big.**
 * Maddox and Turner Joy**
 * fired upon and tells congress**
 * to take all necessary measures to prevent further aggression.** ||


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

Allowed to join war. ||  ||  ||
 * Sec. of Defense Robert McNamera ||  ||


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

Bombs dropped nonstop on N. Vietnam. More on Vietnam then all or Europe. ||

= =
 * = American ground troops enter Vietnam  =

notes || ||

My questions about the Vietnam War: