VIETNAM CONTINUED
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VIETNAM CONTINUED
• THE TET OFFENSIVE
• 1968 NIXON ELECTION
• 1968 PARIS PEACE TALKS
• 1970 TAKING TO WAR TO OTHER COUNTRIES
• 1972 Christmas Bombing
• 1973 March US Pull out
TET OFFENSIVE
• 1967 STALEMATE• GENERAL GIAP
NVA DECIDES TO ATTACK OVER THE LUNAR HOLIDAY
• TET IS A HOLIDAY OF PRAYER AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP
TET
• JANUARY 30 1968 APPROX. 100,000 COMMUNIST SOLDIERS –VC-NVA ATTACKED 100 CITIES AND U.S BASES IN SOUTH VIETNAM.
• KHE SANH – CAM RANH BAY-DA NANG – HUE AND THE U.S EMBASSY IN SAIGON.
• ALL AREAS ATTACKED WERE RECAPTURED .
• THE PEOPLE DID NOT RISE UP.
TET
• WAS A MILITARY FAILURE FOR THE VC AND NVA
• 33,000 VC KILLED ENDED THERE STRENGTH
• TURNING POINT • AMERICAN PUBLIC
OPINION TURNS
GEN. GIAP
HUE CITY
KHE SANH
STREET IN SAIGON
RACE TRACK IN SAIGON - BATTLE
1968 ELECTION AND PARIS
• WALLACE –NIXON-HUMPHREYS
• NIXON VICTORY PROMISE PEACE
• BEGAN TRAINING SV TO TAKE U.S. PLACES ON THE BATTLEFIELD
• MARCH 1969
• NIXON DOCTRINE • TROOP
WITHDRAWL NOV 1969 60,000
• 68 PARIS PEACE TALKS FAIL
• SECRESCT WAR TO BRING NV TO TABLES
NIXON - PEACE
• BOMBING THE NORTH TO PEACE FAILED
• CAMBODIA AND LAOS
• 1972 PEACE PLAN• THIEU STAYS IN
POWER- VC GET A SAY IN PEACE
• NV TROOPS REMAIN IN THE SOUTH
• US LEAVES – POW’S ARE RETURNED
• THIEU REFUSED TO SIGN
PEACE WITH HONOR
• CHRISTMAS BOMBING 72 – 73
• JANUERY 73 PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED
• MARCH 73 US TROOPS LEAVE
• PEACE ENDS 75 SIAGON FALLS
Last day in SaigonLast day Saigon
U.S. Embassy U.S. Embassy
Evacuation of Saigon
Helicopter returning- Saigon
U.S Aircraft Carriers were used to evacuate as many as possible from Saigon as it fell in 1975
USS. MIDWAY
NVA troops in Saigon 1975