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Korea and Vietnam Wars
Korea and Vietnam Wars
Korea and Vietnam Wars
Communism spreads to China in 1949 and the U.S. grows concerned for SE Asia
Domino Theory
Speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
Used to justify the need for American intervention around the world.
Korea and Vietnam Wars
1950 the North Korea invades South Korea in an attempt to unify country under Communism
UN decides to take action
Korea and Vietnam Wars
US Troops push N. Korean forces back to China – Chinese forces attack
By 1951 there is a stalemate and by 1953 there is a truce
Korea remains divided today at the 38th parallel
Korea and Vietnam Wars
Vietnam War
Korea and Vietnam Wars
1964 U.S. warships attacked by the North Vietnamese
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: The President is allowed to protect troops in Vietnam by any means necessary
Who we faught
Viet Cong
North Vietnamese Army heavily supplied from USSR via China
Korea and Vietnam Wars
Guerilla Warfare: Soldier’s fighting in unconvential tactics (not wearing uniforms, ambush, booby traps…)
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Korea and Vietnam
Tet Offensive
1968 Viet Cong Attack every
major US base in South Vietnam
US Embassy compound in Saigon is attacked
Americans defeat attack, but media begins to see this as an unwinnable war
Turning point in public support
Walter Cronkite wavers with his public support
LBJ states “if I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lose middle America…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn4w-ud-TyE
American’s have had enough
By 1965 support for the war is low
Protests start and college campuses are at the center of the demonstrations
Vietnamization
Nixon’s plan to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops."
Korea and Vietnam WarsFinally in 1973 Pres. Nixon signs a
cease fire and starts to pull troops out of Vietnam
1975 South Vietnam falls to Communism
Cost of War
Of the 2.7 million Americans that served in the Vietnam war… 300,000 were wounded in action 75,000 were disabled Of the casualties listed on The Wall, approximately
1,300 remain missing in action 58,129 were killed The average age was 19