Vietnam+Path




 * A BRIEF HISTORY OF VIETNAM [[image:turningpoints/vietnamsill.gif align="right" caption="vietnamsill.gif"]] **

Pre 1800s – ** Vietnam has Dynastic rulers, influenced by China **

LATE 1800s – ** Vietnam is a French colony **

1930s – ** communist revolts led by Ho Chi Minh – Ho Chi Minh flees to China and USSR **

1940s – ** Ho Chi Minh forms a Vietminh party in order to liberate Vietnam – declare independence in 1945 **

1954 – ** Vietminh successfully defeat French in north Vietnam and establish communist government in north **

1954 – ** Vietnam is split temporarily by the Geneva Accords, with free elections to be held in 1956 to unite the nation **

LATE 1950s – ** Civil War in Vietnam between Communist North and American-supported South **


 * PRESIDENTIAL INVOLVEMENT **
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 * **TRUMAN** ** notes- **
 * sent economic and military aid**
 * to France to help them keep their**
 * colonies**
 * in Indochina** || **EISENHOWER** ** notes- **
 * Believes in the domino **
 * theory, helps establish a puppet**
 * state in South Vietnam and sent**
 * military advisors to help in the**
 * south. Installed Ngo Dinh Diem**
 * who no one in Vietnam liked** || **KENNEDY** ** notes- **
 * US supports an overthrow **
 * of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963.**
 * Doesn't** ** want to be soft on **
 * Communism. **** Continued to **
 * send advisors. Over 16,000**
 * were there by the time of**
 * his death.** || **JOHNSON** ** notes- **
 * Commits the US **** to the war in Vietnam . ** ||


 * =** The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution **=

notes- -A blank check. -Passes unanimously in the house and has 2 opposing votes in the senate ||  ||  ||
 * Sec. of Defense Robert McNamera ||  ||


 * [[image:http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/0bbab3dff8455159bcacb94c240ceb82_1M.png caption="external image 0bbab3dff8455159bcacb94c240ceb82_1M.png"]] || =** Operation Rolling Thunder **=

notes - Many bombs are dropped on Vietnam at one time. ||


 * = American ground troops enter Vietnam =

notes - First ground troops - Marines sent in || ||

My questions about the Vietnam War: