Vietnam

By Blainemooney1
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    Eisenhower administration

    Eisenhower was the one to declare that we were going to support South Vietnam inevitably causing us to go to war.
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    the battle of dien bien phu

    The climatic battle of the first Indochina war fought between the French, Americans and the Vietnamese, and the Chinese
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    Geneva Accords

    were held in an attempt to calm the Korean war and the first Indochina war. It gave Cambodia and Laos their independence and would split Vietnam in 2 for 2 years.
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    Kennedy administration

    Authorized troops to be sent to south Vietnam and authorized the bay of pigs attack
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    Johnson administration

    Created the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which when passed allowed for military force to be used in south Vietnam. Was the one who first started the actual fighting

  • Gulf of Tonkin

    unprovoked attack by North Vietnam on 2 US destroyer ships

  • Tonkin Resolution

    Was a resolution passed by congress that allowed for troops to be sent to south Vietnam
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    Vietnamization

    The policy of the US of slowly removing troops and slowly letting the war fall solely on south Vietnam
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    Nixon administration

    Created Vietnamization which was used to slowly pulled us troop out of Vietnam
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    Tet Offensive

    a series of attacks by North Vietnam to collapse rebellions in South Vietnam and to make the US back down

  • My Lai Massacre

    The mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese by US troops

  • Daniel Ellsberg

    Contributed to the pentagon papers and tried to get them released to the senate floor
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    Invasion of Cambodia

    This was a series of military involvements in Cambodia by the US and South Vietnam to make sure that the Viet Cong didn't have any bases of operation in the weak nation

  • Pentagon Papers

    Leaked reports of the department of defense's plans in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967
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    Christmas Bombing

    a series of bombings carried out over the Christmas season in 1972

  • Paris Peace Conference/Accords

    The written agreement that ended the Vietnam war.

  • War Powers Act

    Made it where the president had to get congresses approval to do anything to do with war.
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    Ford administration

    Oversaw the ending of the war declaring it over in 1975 after the fall of Saigon.

  • Fall of Saigon

    The capture of the capital of south Vietnam by the north. Marking the end of the war.