vietnam war by Allison clark

By alley_82802

  • France established control over

    they gained control of Indochina, a peninsula of south Asia.

  • Ho chi minh fled vietnam

  • America contributed

    2.6 billion to France war effects to contain communist

  • French lost 8-year struggle to regain Vietnam

  • seato

    us and several other countries formed SEATO to contain communism

  • french surrendered after 15000 casualties

  • IPC

    international peace conference in geneva Switzerland France sued for peace

  • free election to unify Vietnam

  • NLF

    had committed themselves to undermining diem government and uniting under a communist flag

  • diem was removed and later assassinated

  • us was attacked at the gulf of Tonkin

  • us airstrike hammered north Vietnam

  • there are now 184300 U.S troops in Vietnam

  • draft eligible males were in protest.

    were burning cards in protest. antiwar advocates sponsored stop the draft day

  • america splits

    into two groups one supports containment of communism and the other questioned the war on moral and strategic ground

  • us president addressed the us on television

    he announced the limiting of bombing and seek settlement with north Vietnam.and he shocked the nation by announcing he will not be running again

  • Richard took office

  • collage students are now protesting

    they were getting draft age males to sign petitions and have tech-ins

  • attack

    richard order a ground attack on Cambodia