The Vietnam War Ch 2

By Trey778

  • teach-in

    a group of faculty members and students at the University of Michigan joined together and discussed the issues surrounding the war

  • Senate Foreign Relations Committee

    the SFRC held “educational” hearings on Vietnam They called in policy makers and critics to discuss the administration’s military strategy

  • MLK publicly speaks about African Americans in the war

    they accounted for almost 20 percent of combat-related deaths. This skewed death rate angered African American leaders
  • McCarthy enters the race

    McCarthy enters the race

    McCarthy declared that he would challenge Johnson for the Democratic presidential nomination
  • Johnson would not run again

    Johnson would not run again

    Johnson appeared on television and said I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    the Vietcong and North Vietnamese launched a massive surprise attack during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year
  • MLK's assassination

    MLK's assassination

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray.

  • Richard Nixon became the 37 president

    Nixon defeated Humphrey by more than 100 electoral votes, although he only won the popular vote by a slim margin of 43 percent to 42 percent

  • the lottery system was instituted

    because so many Americans refused to serve the lottery system was made so only those with low numbers were subject to the draft

  • Twenty-sixth Amendment

    gave all citizens age 18 and older the right to vote after draftees argued that if they were old enough to fight, they were old enough to vote