Vietnam War Moving Toward Conflict Roots of American

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Vietnam War

• Moving Toward Conflict

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Roots of American Involvement

• France rules Indochina from late 1800s until
  World War II.
• Japan takes over during war. Vietminh resist
  Japanese.
• Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent in 1945.
• Both Truman and Eisenhower support Frances war
  against Vietnam.
• France defeated at Dien Bien Phu.
• Geneva Accords temporarily divide Vietnam.

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JFK and the Cold War

• Ask not what your country can do for you, ask
  what you can do for your country.
• Peace Corps
• Domino Theory

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The U.S. Steps In

• South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem cancels
  unifying election. Ho Chi Minh and communists
  were sure to win.
• Diems regime corrupt and repressive.
• 1963 ? President Kennedy backs plan to overthrow
  Diem.

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President Johnson Expands the Conflict

• Diems successors fail to stop the Vietcong.
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
• February 1965 ? Johnson escalates U.S.
  involvement in Vietnam.

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