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April 16--What do you know
about the Vietnam War?
•WHAT DO YOU WANT TO
KNOW ABOUT THE VIETNAM
WAR?
The Vietnam War
IB Objectives
Spread of the Cold War from Europe
US involvement in Vietnam
US foreign policy during Cold War
IB Sample Questions
“The Vietnam War had a disastrous effect
on the presidencies of both Lyndon B.
Johnson and Richard Nixon.” To what
extent do you agree with this statement?
Compare and contrast the roles of Korea
and Vietnam in the Cold War.
Key Terms
Ho Chi Minh
Geneva Accords
Ngo Dinh Diem
Vietcong
Lecture Outline
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Why the US became involved
The War
Why the US lost
Impact of the War
Why the US got involved
US foreign policy
The Communist victory in Vietnam allowed the
Soviet Navy to establish a strong presence in the
South China Sea and to pose a military threat to
the US in the region.
Access to raw materials and markets of
Indochina
If a political party wanted to be successful in the
next election it must have appeared firm against
any Communist move.
Causes of the War
Indochina (Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos)
had been a French colony since the 1890s.
Ho Chi Minh was a French educated
Communist, who organized the
Indochinese Communist Party (the
Vietminh) in 1930.
The Vietnamese, with US aid, raised a
guerilla force of 5,000 men to fight the
Japanese.
The War of Independence
In August 1945 the Vietminh proclaimed
the independence of Vietnam.
In November 1946 the Vietnamese War
for Independence began.
At first the US was unsympathetic towards
the French but after the policy of
containment was adopted the US began to
support the French.
Why did the US support France?
The need to have French support in
Europe against the Soviets
The possibility of a Communist victory in
Indochina
The 1949 Communist victory in China
The Korean War
The War for Independence
By the end of the war the US had given
the French more than $2.6 billion in
military aid.
The Geneva Accords set the terms of the
French withdrawal.
Vietnam was temporarily divided at the
17th parallel.
Elections were to be held in the summer
of 1956.
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17
Parallel
South Vietnam
The French appointed Ngo Dinh Diem as
the interim Premier of the South.
With US support, Diem blocked the
elections called for by the Geneva Accords
and broke off all contact with the North.
Between 1955 and 1961, the US gave
South Vietnam more than $1 billion in
economic and military assistance and by
1961 it was the 5th largest recipient of US
foreign aid.
April 19– Write an identification
for the Geneva Accords.
South Vietnam
By the late 1950s the American mission in
Saigon was the largest anywhere in the world
with 1,500 men.
By 1956 over 200,000 political opponents had
been arrested.
Diem refused to institute land reform or
make other necessary economic and social
changes.
South Vietnam
Diem’s refusal to hold the reunification
elections and his harassment of
Communists caused the Southern
Communists, the Vietcong, to begin
guerrilla warfare against the government.
Ho formally approved the guerrilla
campaign and began to send arms and
advisers south to assist the Vietcong.
North Vietnam Responds
In 1958 about 700 government officials
were assassinated, in 1960, 2,500.
US military assistance more than doubled
between 1961 and 1962 and the number
of US military advisors increased from
3,205 to more than 9,000.
South Vietnam
May 1963 the Buddhists begin to protest
Diem’s policies.
In August Vietnamese forces carried out
raids on Buddhist temples and arrested
1,400 people.
On November 1, 1963 Diem and his
brother were overthrown and murdered.
3 weeks later President Kennedy was
assassinated.
US Involvement Activity
Recorder
Presenters (2)
UN p. 960-967
Henry Kissinger
Vietnamization
Pentagon papers
“Christmas bombing”
Paris accords
SALT I
Nixon Doctrine