The Vietnam War occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1959 to 1975 between communist North Vietnam and the communist Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. The US entered the war to prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia according to the Domino Theory. Several US presidents escalated US involvement, but Nixon began withdrawing troops and negotiated a ceasefire, effectively ending US involvement despite later attempts to support South Vietnam.

1. THE VIETNAM WAR
SUBJECT: CULTURE
NAME: Carolina Sánchez

2. The war of the Vietnam was
the longest of the North
American history, supposed
for this country an experience
of failure and frustration.
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3.  The Vietnam War occurred in
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from
1959 to 30 April 1975. The war was
fought between the communist North
Vietnam, supported by its communist
allies, and the government of South
Vietnam, supported by the United
States and other member nations of
the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO)

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VIETNAM
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5.  He was
leader of the
government
in South
Vietnam

6.  Ho Chi Minh (1890-
1969), Vietnamese
Communist
leader, who was the
first president of the
Democratic Republic
of Vietnam
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7. Anti-Communist forces: Communist forces:
 South Vietnam  North Vietnam
 United States  Viet Cong
 South Korea  Khmer Rouge
 Australia  Pathet Lao
 People's Republic of
 Philippines
China
 New Zealand
 Soviet Union North
 Khmer Republic Korea
 Thailand Kingdom of
Laos

8. COMUNIST AND
SOCIALISM U.S.A.
V.S
“AUTHORITARIAN” “FREEDOM” “DEMOCRACY”
“OPPRESSIVE”

9.  The most important cause was
that because of the Indochina
War, Vietnam was divided into
North Vietnam with a
communist state and South
Vietnam with a democratic
state.

10.  The United States was involved in
Vietnam War because American
policymakers believed that if the
entire country fell under a
Communist
government, Communism would
spread throughout Southeast Asia.
This belief was known as the
“domino theory.”

11. The United States entered
the war to prevent a
communist takeover of
South Vietnam as part of
their wider strategy of
containment.

12.  Kennedy was elected president Australia would follow. If
of the United States in communism was not halted in
November, 1960. In the first Vietnam it would gradually
speech he made to the American spread throughout the world.
public as their President This view became known as the
Kennedy made it clear that he Domino Theory.
intended to continue
Eisenhower's policy of
supporting Diem's South
Vietnamese government. He
argued that if South Vietnam
became a communist state, the
whole of the non-communist
world would be at risk. If South
Vietnam
fell, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Phi
lippines, New Zealand and

13.  He secretly sent 400 Special Operations
Forces–trained soldiers to teach the South
Vietnamese how to fight against Communist
guerrillas in South Vietnam. When Kennedy
was assassinated in November 1963, there
were more than 16,000 U.S. military
advisers in South Vietnam, and more than
100 Americans had been killed. Kennedy's
successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, committed
the United States most fully to the war

14.  Johnson, a
Democrat, succeeded to
the presidency following
the assassination of
President John F.
Kennedy, completed
Kennedy's term and was
elected President in his
own right in a landslide
victory in the 1964
Presidential election.

15.  Johnson was a strong supporter of
the Domino Theory and believed that
the prevention of an National
Liberation Front victory in South
Vietnam was vital to the defence of
the United States
 Johnson, like Kennedy before
him, came under pressure from his
military advisers to take more
'forceful' action against North
Vietnam and the NLF.

16. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of
1964 gave President Lyndon B.
Johnson permission to launch a
full-scale military intervention in
Vietnam. The first American
combat troops arrived in
Vietnam in March 1965.

17.  The most immediate task
facing President Nixon was
the Vietnam War. President
Nixon introduced his policy
of "vietnamization". The
plan was to encourage the
South Vietnamese to take
more responsibility for
fighting the war. It was
hoped that this policy
would eventually enable the
United States to withdraw
gradually all their soldiers
from Vietnam.

18.  Richard Nixon had campaigned in
the 1968 presidential election
under the slogan that he would
end the war in Vietnam and bring
"peace with honor."
However, there was no plan to do
this, and the American
commitment continued for
another five years.

19. He initially escalated the
conflict, overseeing secret
bombing campaigns, but soon
withdrew American troops and
successfully negotiated a
ceasefire with North
Vietnam, effectively ending
American involvement in the
war.

20. The new president, Gerald Ford, a strong
supporter of US involvement in
Vietnam, tried to raise support for the
South Vietnamese government but the
Senate was adamant that as far as it was
concerned, the war was over.
On April 23, 1975, President Gerald Ford
told the American people: "Today
Americans can regain the sense of pride
that existed before Vietnam. But it cannot
be achieved by refighting a war that is
finished
End of war

21. WRITE (T) FOR TRUE OR (F) FOR FALSE
The Vietnam War occurred in Vietnam, Laos
and Cambodia from 1950 to 30 April
1975.___F_____
Ngo Dinh Diem:He was leader of the
government in South Vietnam._T______
Australia was a communist force__F__
The United States was a anti-communist
force__T___
John F. Kennedy, effectively ending American
involvement in the war._F_____