PPT-Vietnam War Commemoration & VA Benefits Town Hall

Honoring Service Family and Sacrifice Hosted by Department of Veterans Affairs VA Columbia Regional Benefits Office in partnership with Midlands Veterans Engagement Council State of South Carolina Dept of Veterans Affairs and Columbia VA Health Care System. Lessons and Legacies Volume III Memory Memorialization and Denial Monument Builders Modern Architecture and Death Exhibiting Dilemmas Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian Hiroshima in History and Memory Twilight Memories Marking Time in a Cul What was it?. The Vietnam War was . a war that had . C. ommunist North . Vietnam and its southern . allies, the . Viet Cong, . fighting against . South . Vietnam and the . United States. .. The war ended in 1973 because of the withdrawal of United States help.. By: James Esposito. The Draft for the Vietnam War was Immoral. Many Americans were burning their draft cards and protesting against the war, which hadn’t been very popular in American history to this point. 1965-1975. America’s Involvement in Vietnam. 30 years of involvement. Five Presidents (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon). 164 billion dollars. 58,132 Americans died / 2 million Vietnamese. By: Michael Jefferson. Mrs. Rooney/ Ms Scheetz . How did it happen?. The Vietnam War stared because president Eisenhower did not want communism to spread to America.. . When Did It Happen?. It happened during 1954- 1975 it took longer because South Vietnam invaded North Vietnam.. Lesson Plan 1 – 5. Beginnings of War. 1953: Eisenhower greatly increases aid to France in fighting Vietnam. May 1961. President Kennedy sends 400 Green Berets “Special Advisors” to South Vietnam to train South Vietnam soldiers on methods of counter-insurgency. During the Cold War, the U.S. was committed. . to. . containing. . communism. The U.S. was effective in limiting communist influence in Europe. But, the spread of communism in Asia led the U.S. to become involved in a civil war in Vietnam . 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). Managing Director. Yasmin Bhatia, Uplift CEO. TOWN HALL MEETING. TOWN HALL MEETING. Our Successes. Academic Progress. TOWN HALL MEETING. Peer Comparison. (% Met Level 2). State. Hampton. Uplift. 3. rd. 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. Vietnam. Ruled by the Chinese for 100’s of years. 1800-1940’s- was a French colony.. Post-WWII- seen as vital to contain communism.. French Indochina. : Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam ruled by France until WWII. PreP. and Prevention. IAC 2018 . Update. Lynda Dee. September 26, 2018. PrEP UP. . Town Hall Meeting. CDC: HIV Transmission Statistics. CDC: Impact of PrEP on HIV Diagnoses 2012 to 2016. 2017 TASP: Transmission in Undetectable MSM Couples. 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. 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