Vietnam in Revolution Part II: The American War, 19541975

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Vietnam in Revolution Part II The American War,
1954-1975
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Diem and General Joseph Collins, 1955
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Vietnam After Geneva

• Ngo Dinh Diem (1901-1963)
• Republic of Vietnam (RVN)
• ARVN
• Agrovilles
• Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)
• Democratic Rep. of Vietnam (DRV)
• Land reform
• NLF (Viet Cong)

Ngo Dinh Diem meets with Dwight Eisenhower
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The Ho Chi Minh Trail
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America Goes to War

• Advice and Support
• Flexible Response
• MACV 1962
• Strategic Hamlets
• 1963 Coup
• Tonkin Gulf Incident 1964
• Rolling Thunder 1965

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Buddhist monk immolates himself in protest
against Diems policies, 1963
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War and Peace in Vietnam

• War of attrition
• Body Count
• Combined Struggle
• Tet Offensive 1968
• Vietnamization
• Paris Peace Accords 1973
• Fall of Saigon 1975

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MACV Commander Gen. William Westmoreland
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Chief of RVN National Police Force Nguyen Ngoc
Loan executes NLF suspect during Tet Offensive
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Vietnamese trying to get into U.S. Embassy in
Saigon
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Last helicopter leaves from the roof of the US
embassy in Saigon, April 30 1975 (Most people
trying to board were turned away)
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PAVN tanks on the lawn of the presidential palace