Here are the key points I would make in response: - The USA claimed it was justified due to the Domino Theory - the fear that if one country "fell" to communism, its neighbors would follow. However, this was a vast oversimplification of the political situations in other Asian countries. - The Geneva Accords called for democratic elections in 1956 to reunify Vietnam. The USA refused to accept the results if Ho Chi Minh won, overriding the will of the Vietnamese people. This undermined the idea that the USA was promoting democracy. - By supporting the corrupt Diem regime in South Vietnam and its repression of political dissent, the USA lost moral authority. This fueled the rise of the Viet Cong

2. The Vietnam War – Causes

3. The Vietnam War – Causes

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15. • Vietnam is in South-East Asia.

16. • Vietnam is in South-East Asia.
• It was part of an old French Colony
called Indo-China

17. • Vietnam is in South-East Asia.
• It was part of an old French Colony
called Indo-China
• During WW2 the Japanese captured it
from the French

18. • Vietnam is in South-East Asia.
• It was part of an old French Colony
called Indo-China
• During WW2 the Japanese captured it
from the French
• The Vietnamese resistance was led by
the communist Ho Chi Minh (left)

19. • Vietnam is in South-East Asia.
• It was part of an old French Colony
called Indo-China
• During WW2 the Japanese captured it
from the French
• The Vietnamese resistance was led by
the communist Ho Chi Minh (left)
• 1945: They resisted the French when
they tried to re-establish control

20. • Vietnam is in South-East Asia.
• It was part of an old French Colony
called Indo-China
• During WW2 the Japanese captured it
from the French
• The Vietnamese resistance was led by
the communist Ho Chi Minh (left)
• 1945: They resisted the French when
they tried to re-establish control
• 1946: War broke out between the two
groups

21. • Vietnam is in South-East Asia.
• It was part of an old French Colony
called Indo-China
• During WW2 the Japanese captured it
from the French
• The Vietnamese resistance was led by
the communist Ho Chi Minh (left)
• 1945: They resisted the French when
they tried to re-establish control
• 1946: War broke out between the two
groups
• Vietnam was 9000 miles from the USA,
yet they decided to get involved by
pouring $500 million a year into the
French war effort.

22. • Vietnam is in South-East Asia.
• It was part of an old French Colony
called Indo-China
• During WW2 the Japanese captured it
from the French
• The Vietnamese resistance was led by
the communist Ho Chi Minh (left)
• 1945: They resisted the French when
they tried to re-establish control
• 1946: War broke out between the two
groups
• Vietnam was 9000 miles from the USA,
yet they decided to get involved by
pouring $500 million a year into the
French war effort.
• Why???

23. Background: How did the USA
first get involved in Vietnam?
• Vietnam is in South-East Asia.
• It was part of an old French Colony
called Indo-China
• During WW2 the Japanese captured it
from the French
• The Vietnamese resistance was led by
the communist Ho Chi Minh (left)
• 1945: They resisted the French when
they tried to re-establish control
• 1946: War broke out between the two
groups
• Vietnam was 9000 miles from the USA,
yet they decided to get involved by
pouring $500 million a year into the
French war effort.
• Why???

24. Causes Course Consequence
/ Assessment
1.McCarthyism
2.Korean War
3.Hungary
Revolution
4. Cuban Missile
Crisis
5. Berlin Wall

25. Causes Course Consequence
/ Assessment
• Produce a small 1.McCarthyism
poster for your
assigned topic as 2.Korean War
per the
instructions. 3.Hungary
Revolution
4. Cuban Missile
Crisis
5. Berlin Wall

26. Causes Course Consequence
/ Assessment
• Produce a small 1.McCarthyism
poster for your
assigned topic as 2.Korean War
per the
instructions. 3.Hungary
Revolution
• Use the internet 4. Cuban Missile
sources. Crisis
5. Berlin Wall

27. Causes Course Consequence
/ Assessment
• Produce a small 1.McCarthyism
poster for your
assigned topic as 2.Korean War
per the
instructions. 3.Hungary
Revolution
• Use the internet 4. Cuban Missile
sources. Crisis
• You have 25 5. Berlin Wall
minutes!

28. (a) General Causes
Causes Course Consequence
/ Assessment
• Produce a small 1.McCarthyism
poster for your
assigned topic as 2.Korean War
per the
instructions. 3.Hungary
Revolution
• Use the internet 4. Cuban Missile
sources. Crisis
• You have 25 5. Berlin Wall
minutes!
• Peer teach.

30. Discussion point from this
work:

31. Discussion point from this
work:

34. • a. French defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954;

35. (b) Specific causes: 1. The
Defeat at Dien Bien Phu
• a. French defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954;
• b. Geneva Agreement:
– i. divides Vietnam into
• a Northern zone (communist – Ho Chi Minh, capital=Hanoi)
and
• a southern zone (democratic – Ngo Dinh Diem,
capital=Saigon)
– ii. Arranges for elections to take place in both zones.

37. • SEATO:

38. • SEATO:
• Fearing that the communists
would win a massive amount
of votes with the Buddhist
peasant population who were
disgusted by the materialism
of the Dinh Diem government,
the US

39. • SEATO:
• Fearing that the communists
would win a massive amount
of votes with the Buddhist
peasant population who were
disgusted by the materialism
of the Dinh Diem government,
the US
• - refuses to allow these
elections to take place

40. • SEATO:
• Fearing that the communists
would win a massive amount
of votes with the Buddhist
peasant population who were
disgusted by the materialism
of the Dinh Diem government,
the US
• - refuses to allow these
elections to take place
• - forms the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization (SEATO) to
protect the independence of
Vietnam.

41. (b) Specific causes: 2. The
American reaction
• SEATO:
• Fearing that the communists
would win a massive amount
of votes with the Buddhist
peasant population who were
disgusted by the materialism
of the Dinh Diem government,
the US
• - refuses to allow these
elections to take place
• - forms the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization (SEATO) to
protect the independence of
Vietnam.

43. • Containment / Domino Theory

44. • Containment / Domino Theory
• Truman (President 1945-53) =
“Containment” = Europe

45. • Containment / Domino Theory
• Truman (President 1945-53) =
“Containment” = Europe
• Eisenhower (President
1953-61) = “Domino Theory”
= Asia

46. • Containment / Domino Theory
• Truman (President 1945-53) =
“Containment” = Europe
• Eisenhower (President
1953-61) = “Domino Theory”
= Asia
• “You knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the
last one is the certainty that it
will go over very quickly”

47. • Containment / Domino Theory
• Truman (President 1945-53) =
“Containment” = Europe
• Eisenhower (President
1953-61) = “Domino Theory”
= Asia
• “You knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the
last one is the certainty that it
will go over very quickly”
• (South Vietnam > Cambodia >
Laos > Thailand > Burma >
India > ???

48. • Containment / Domino Theory
• Truman (President 1945-53) =
“Containment” = Europe
• Eisenhower (President
1953-61) = “Domino Theory”
= Asia
• “You knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the
last one is the certainty that it
will go over very quickly”
• (South Vietnam > Cambodia >
Laos > Thailand > Burma >
India > ???
• Ho Chi Minh responds with a
guerrilla campaign against the
south.

49. (b) Specific causes: 2. The
American reaction
• Containment / Domino Theory
• Truman (President 1945-53) =
“Containment” = Europe
• Eisenhower (President
1953-61) = “Domino Theory”
= Asia
• “You knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the
last one is the certainty that it
will go over very quickly”
• (South Vietnam > Cambodia >
Laos > Thailand > Burma >
India > ???
• Ho Chi Minh responds with a
guerrilla campaign against the
south.

51. The Domino Theory Illustrated

52. The Domino Theory Illustrated

54. Main Task:
“Do you think that the USA was
justified in interfering in the
affairs of Vietnam? Explain your
answer”.

55. Main Task:
“Do you think that the USA was
justified in interfering in the
affairs of Vietnam? Explain your
answer”.