PPT-Chapter 26 The Vietnam War: 1954-1975

Vietnam Ruled by the Chinese for 100s of years 18001940s was a French colony PostWWII seen as vital to contain communism French Indochina Laos Cambodia amp Vietnam ruled by France until WWII. By John Medhurst, PCS Research Officer. The Vietnam War. . Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos = French Indochina. 1941 - creation of the Vietminh. 1941-45 – Vietminh fight Vichy France, China, and Japan . APA Media. Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Recapping Our Methods. Recapping Our Methods. Cultural Studies: how do we know what we know? How do “structures of feeling” help us understand what is knowable? (American vs. North American). Living with Great Turmoil. Unit 6. Set up your Table of Contents. Daily Warm Up Pages (2). Daily Warm Up #1: Time Line . The New Frontier and the Great Society. List 5 of the 10 events on your US Timeline on pages 668-669. - Nikita Khrushchev. Growing American Involvement. · The U.S. believed that if South Vietnam fell to the communists, the rest of the nations in Southeast Asia would as well in a theory called the . domino theory. Lesson 3 . The Antiwar Movement. Learning Objectives. Describe the divisions within American society over the Vietnam War.. Analyze the Tet Offensive and the American reaction to it.. Summarize the factors that influenced the outcome of the 1968 presidential election.. The Vietnam War. 20 years. Five presidents. 164 billion dollars. 58,132 Americans died/2million Vietnamese. 150,000 Americans wounded. 21,000 permanently disabled. 3 million Americans served (avg. age 19). Social Change in America. Civil Rights Movement and Desegregation. Power Movements. Assassination of JFK 1963; Malcolm X 1965; MLK 1968. Cold War and Anti-Communism. Economic growth and consumerism. Great Society and War on Poverty. Vietnam. Vietnam. War - . outline. Origins. of the . Vietnam. War. The First . Indochina. war. The French . lose. . Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh. Geneva. . accords. South. . Vietnam. Buddhist. . revolt. Stop the spread of communism. Vietnam. Independence- to be free of foreign/ imperial influence. Plans. Send advisors/ escalate. Limited War. No . nucs. Air War. Operation Rolling Thunder. Operation Niagara. Conquest and colonialism in Indochina. 200 B.C. Chinese invade Red River Delta. 939 A.D. After nearly 1000 years of Chinese control, the Vietnamese win independence but the Chinese remained a threat. The Vietnam War Era (1954-1975) Lesson 1 The Cold War and Vietnam Learning Objectives Explain the steps Kennedy took to change American foreign policy. Analyze the causes and effects of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Analyze the ways in which the Vietnam War heightened social, political, and economic tensions in the United States. Focus your answer on the period 1964-1975. French Indochina War France attempted to reestablish rule in Vietnam after World War II. The Vietnam War 1954 – 1975 Chapter 22 Map of Vietnam Activity Label each country shown on the map Color North Vietnam and South Vietnam (different colors) Identify and Label Saigon Hanoi Gulf of Tonkin Salva González Martínez. Susana Hernández Nicolau. La guerra de . vietnam. . va ser un enfrontament . militar que va tenir lloc a Vietnam des de . 1954 . fins a . 1973, . l'origen del qual va ser la determinació de les guerrilles comunistes (.