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SOURCES:
http://thevietnamwar.info/us-presidents-during-the-vietnam-war/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/28/fall-of-saigon-vietnam-40-years-later/26447943/
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SOURCES:
http://thevietnamwar.info/us-presidents-during-the-vietnam-war/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/28/fall-of-saigon-vietnam-40-years-later/26447943/
I used the information (quite literally) from these sites, plus images found in Google to illustrate an IGCSE lesson on the Vietnam War.
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1. Recovery, Prosperity, and Turmoil
(1945-1980)
Détente
• Relaxation of tensions with the
Soviet Union
• Occurred during Nixon’s presidency
• Both nations passed the SALT I
Treaty (Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks) to prevent
nuclear war
o 5 year agreement to lower the
number of missiles in each
nation
National Highway Act
• Eisenhower
• Created interstate highways
throughout the nation that could
be used in the event of an
emergency
• Decreased travel time
2. Identify the causes of United States'
involvement in Vietnam and examine
how this
involvement
affected society.
Domino Theory
• Belief that
countries will fall
to communism
• US believed this
must be prevented
What was the
problem in
Vietnam?
• Divided
into
Communist
North led
by Ho Chi
3. Minh and US supported South
• Leader in the South did not give
his people freedom
• The Vietcong, a South Vietnamese
communist group, began working
with the North Vietnamese
How did the US increase
its involvement in
Vietnam?
Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution (August 7,
1964)
• North Vietnamese fired at a US
ship that was spying from the Gulf
of Tonkin
• Resolution gave President Johnson
permission to use force in Vietnam
What was the war
like?
• Difficult for US
to fight
4. • We did not know the land
• Many South Vietnamese supported
the Vietcong (Who is the enemy?)
• US harmed many civilians with
Napalm and Agent Orange that
were used to burn the jungles
• US soldiers were drafted and many
did not want to be there
• Americans did not understand the
war and many were opposed to it
• President Johnson said things were
going well but Americans watched
the war every night on their TVs
5. • Protests took place throughout the
US
Tet
Offe
nsive
• Su
rp
ris
e
att
ac
k
6. against the US by the North
Vietnamese and Vietcong
• Attack made Americans realize that
we were not winning the war
• Support for the war and President
Johnson decreased
My Lai Incident
• Over 200 innocent Vietnamese-
mostly women, children and elderly
men- were murdered by US
soldiers
• Hurt the reputation of US soldiers
in the war
• Johnson promised
Vietnamization, that the
Vietnamese would take over the
war instead of US soldiers
Invasion of Cambodia
• US troops invaded Cambodia, a
neutral country
7. • Necessary to stop the passage of
weapons from the North to the
South
• Very unpopular with much of the
world
Kent
State
Massac
re
• 9
stude
nts
who
were
prote
sting the war were killed by the
National Guard
• Intensified the movement to end
the war
Pentagon Papers
• Documents leaked to the New York
Times revealing that the
8. government had planned to go to
war in Vietnam all along
• People were angry that the
government had not been honest
about its intentions
• Government took the NYT to court
• Supreme Court ruled in New
York Times v. US that the paper
could publish the documents
Fall of
Saigon
• US
agreed to
withdraw
troops
from
Vietnam
• Paris Peace Accords
• As soon as the US left, the North
Vietnamese took over the South
• Capital city of Saigon fell
• The US had accomplished nothing
and had lost thousands of soldiers
9. The Effects of the Vietnam War
• 58,000 Americans died or were
Missing in Action (MIA)
• War Powers Act was passed
o Limited the President’s power to
use force
o President must inform Congress
within 48 hours of sending
forces into a hostile nation
o Cannot leave troops in the area
over 90 days without
Congressional permission
• The 26th
Amendment was passed
giving all Americans over the age
of 18 suffrage
Examine the impact of technological
innovations that have impacted
American life
Cold War Technology and the Space
Race
Sputnik
• First satellite
10. • Launched by Soviet Union
• US responded by stepping up its
space program
NASA
• National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)
• President Kennedy told Americans
that we would be the first country
to land a man on the moon
• National Defense Education Act
gave more money to schools to
teach science and math
