APUSH 3_23 Vietnam

8/19/2019 APUSH 3_23 Vietnam

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Announcements

• Quiz Thursday

• AP Test


3/20

Country Joe & the Fish


4/20

Well, come on all of you, big strong men,

Uncle Sam needs your help again.

He's got himself in a terrible jam

Way down yonder in VietnamSo put down your books and pick up a gun,

We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one, two, three,

What are we fighting for?

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,

Next stop is Vietnam; And it's five, six, seven,

Open up the pearly gates,

Well there ain't no time to wonder why,

Whoopee! we're all gonna die.


5/20

Come on Wall Street, don't be slow,

Why man, this is war au-go-go

There's plenty good money to be made

By supplying the Army with the tools of its trade,

But just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,

They drop it on the Viet Cong.




Next stop is Vietnam. And it's five, six, seven,


Well there ain't no time to wonder why



6/20

Well, come on generals, let's move fast;

Your big chance has come at last.

Now you can go out and get those reds

'Cause the only good commie is the one that's dead

And you know that peace can only be won

When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.




Next stop is Vietnam; And it's five, six, seven,


Well there ain't no time to wonder why



7/20

Student Movement

• Students for a Democratic

Society (SDS) founded 1960

• Free Speech protests at UC

Berkeley, 1964-5• Hippie movement: free love, use

of drugs, anti-war protest

• Summer of Love, 1967 –months-long hippie gathering in

San Francisco, CA

• Woodstock, 1969 – music

festival in New York


8/20

Escalation of the Vietnam War

• Napalm & Agent

Orange (an

herbicide) used for

deforestation

• Draft

– Almost 650,000

young men drafted

– Led to draft-dodging

& student protest


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“Infiltration will slow; the

Communist infrastructure will

be cut up and near collapse;

the Vietnamese Governmentwill prove its stability, and the

Vietnamese army will show

that it can handle the

Vietcong; United States unitscan begin to phase down.”

- General Westmoreland,

Nov. 1967


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1968

• Tet Offensive: January 1968

massive attack by North

Vietnamese and National

Liberation Front (NLF/Viet Cong) – Attacks defeated by US but made

Johnson very unpopular

• My Lai Massacre: US massacre

of unarmed village in 1968,published in Time Magazine in

1969


12/20

1968

• Tet Offensive: January 1968

massive attack by North

Vietnamese and National

Liberation Front (NLF/Viet Cong) – Attacks defeated by US but made

Johnson very unpopular

• My Lai Massacre: US massacre

of unarmed village in 1968,published in Time Magazine in

1969


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1968

• Election of 1968

– Johnson decides not to

run for re-election

– Robert Kennedy (anti-war,pro-civil rights) leading

Democratic candidate

– Richard Nixon nominated

by Republicans – George Wallace

(segregationist) runs as

independent


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1968

• Election of 1968

– Johnson decides not to

run for re-election

– Robert Kennedy (anti-war,pro-civil rights) leading

Democratic candidate

– Richard Nixon nominated

by Republicans – George Wallace

(segregationist) runs as

independent


15/20

1968

• Assassinations

– MLK (April)

– Robert Kennedy (June)


16/20

1968

• Democratic Convention in

Chicago

– Hubert Humphrey nominated

– Massive student protests leadto police violence

• Nixon wins election

– Had a “secret plan” to end

Vietnam War


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Nixon & Vietnam

• De-escalation

– Gradual withdrawal of US

forces

– Vietnamization: training ofSouth Vietnamese army

– Massive bombing of North

Vietnam, Cambodia

• Kent State: studentprotests at Kent State

University turn deadly, 4

killed by national guard


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Nixon & Vietnam

• “Peace with Honor” – 1973, US made

peace with North Vietnam, which

recognized South Vietnamese government

• Fall of Saigon – 1975 defeat of South

Vietnam

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