What the video at httpswww.youtube.comwatchv=XgW0o-Ui94k a.docxtwilacrt6k5
What the video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgW0o-Ui94k
and answer the questions below based upon your understanding of the war and the content of the video.
1.
Why did the French request assistance from the United States in Southeast Asia?
2.
How is the Domino Theory related to the containment policy?
3.
How did President Kennedy attempt to stop the expansion of communism into Vietnam?
4.
After which event did President Johnson dramatically increase the number of US troops deployed to Vietnam?
a.
Why do historians call into questions President Johnson’s justification for sending more troops to Vietman?
5.
Who advocated the policy of Vietnamization?
Why did this policy fail?
6.
How did the Vietnam conflict end?
The Cold War in Vietnam
Vietnam Before US Intervention Previous
Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been a French colony since the late 19th century. During World War II, however, Japan occupied French Indochina. After Japan's defeat, France tried to re-establish control, but met opposition from the Viet Minh.
After World War II, neither France nor England wanted to see the end of their colonial empires. England was anxious to control Burma, Malaya, and India. France wanted to rule Indochina. Under Franklin Roosevelt, the United States sought to bring an end to European colonialism. As he put it, condescendingly: “There are 1.1 billion brown people. In many Eastern countries they are ruled by a handful of whites and they resent it. Our goal must be to help them achieve independence. 1.1 billion potential enemies are dangerous.”
But under Harry Truman, the United States was concerned about its naval and air bases in Asia. The U.S. decided to permit France into Indochina to re-assert its authority in Southeast Asia. The result: the French Indochina War began.
From the beginning, American intelligence officers knew that France would find it difficult to re-assert its authority in Indochina. The French refused to listen to American intelligence. To them, the idea of Asian rebels standing up to a powerful Western nation was preposterous.
Although Truman allowed the French to return to Indochina, he was not yet prepared to give the French arms, transportation, and economic assistance. It was not until anti-communism became a major issue that the United States would take an active role supporting the French. The fall of China, the Korean War, and the coming of Joe McCarthy would lead policymakers to see the French War in Vietnam, not as a colonial war, but as a war against international communism.
Beginning in 1950, the United States started to underwrite the French war effort. For four years, the United States provided $2 billion; however, this had little effect on the war. The French command, frustrated by a hit-and-run guerrilla war, devised a trap. The idea was to use a French garrison as bait, have the enemy surround it, and mass their forces. Then, the French would strike and .
What the video at httpswww.youtube.comwatchv=XgW0o-Ui94k and a.docxtwilacrt6k5
What the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgW0o-Ui94k and answer the questions below based upon your understanding of the war and the content of the video.
1. Why did the French request assistance from the United States in Southeast Asia?
2. How is the Domino Theory related to the containment policy?
3. How did President Kennedy attempt to stop the expansion of communism into Vietnam?
4. After which event did President Johnson dramatically increase the number of US troops deployed to Vietnam?
a. Why do historians call into questions President Johnson’s justification for sending more troops to Vietman?
5. Who advocated the policy of Vietnamization? Why did this policy fail?
6. How did the Vietnam conflict end?
The Cold War in Vietnam
Vietnam Before US Intervention Previous
Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been a French colony since the late 19th century. During World War II, however, Japan occupied French Indochina. After Japan's defeat, France tried to re-establish control, but met opposition from the Viet Minh.
After World War II, neither France nor England wanted to see the end of their colonial empires. England was anxious to control Burma, Malaya, and India. France wanted to rule Indochina. Under Franklin Roosevelt, the United States sought to bring an end to European colonialism. As he put it, condescendingly: “There are 1.1 billion brown people. In many Eastern countries they are ruled by a handful of whites and they resent it. Our goal must be to help them achieve independence. 1.1 billion potential enemies are dangerous.”
But under Harry Truman, the United States was concerned about its naval and air bases in Asia. The U.S. decided to permit France into Indochina to re-assert its authority in Southeast Asia. The result: the French Indochina War began.
From the beginning, American intelligence officers knew that France would find it difficult to re-assert its authority in Indochina. The French refused to listen to American intelligence. To them, the idea of Asian rebels standing up to a powerful Western nation was preposterous.
Although Truman allowed the French to return to Indochina, he was not yet prepared to give the French arms, transportation, and economic assistance. It was not until anti-communism became a major issue that the United States would take an active role supporting the French. The fall of China, the Korean War, and the coming of Joe McCarthy would lead policymakers to see the French War in Vietnam, not as a colonial war, but as a war against international communism.
Beginning in 1950, the United States started to underwrite the French war effort. For four years, the United State.
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3. I. French Rule in Vietnam
A. France colonized and controlled Vietnam
from 1800’s until WWII
B. Ho Chi Minh- Communist leader, led a
revolt against the French
C. Vietminh- Organization founded by Minh to
gain independence
4. II. Vietminh defeat the French
A. US does not want to lose Vietnam to
communism, send $15M in aid to France
Domino Theory- Countries on the brink are
like dominoes. When one falls, the rest will
fall (Eisenhower)
B. French surrender in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu
5. III. Vietnam after defeat of France
A. France, UK, USSR, US, China, Laos, and
Cambodia meet in Geneva, Switzerland with
Vietminh and South Vietnam anti-communists
Geneva Accords- Agreements that divided
Vietnam along the 17th Parallel
Minh controls North, election called for in
1956 to reunify
6. IV. Vietnam Election (1956)
A. Ngo Dinh Diem- French educated Roman
Catholic controls the South
Diem backs out of the election, leading to
military conflict between North and South
7. V. S. Vietnam under Diem
A. Diem backed by US
B. Diem’s family holds all power, wealth is kept
by the elite
C. Buddhist majority persecuted
8. VI. US Military involvement
A. 1960: JFK sends 16K military “advisors”
B. 1963: JFK supports a Vietnamese military
“coup d’etat”- Diem and brother are murdered
C. JFK assassinated 3 weeks later
9. D. LBJ brings back the Domino Theory
E. Advised by Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara
to rout the Vietcong- Communist opposition
group in South Vietnam
F. Vietcong using the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a path
used to funnel supplies into SV
Vietminh also used it send troops into SV
10. G. Johnson sends in ground forces (Army)
H. US ships off Vietnam coast report being
attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
LBJ says attacks were unprovoked, leads to
expansion of US involvement
11. I. LBJ asks for Tonkin Gulf Resolution-
Presidential authority to take all means to retaliate
for an attack against Americans
Congress agrees to “The Blank Check”
12. J. “Operation Rolling Thunder”- first sustained
bombing against North Vietnam (1965)
K. Vietnam War begins- All about communist
containment
- 50K US troops deployed
