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 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 **
 * [[image:turningpoints/hst.gif align="left" caption="hst.gif"]] || [[image:turningpoints/dde.gif align="left" caption="dde.gif"]] || [[image:turningpoints/lfk.gif align="left" caption="lfk.gif"]] || [[image:turningpoints/lbj.gif align="left" caption="lbj.gif"]] ||
 * **TRUMAN**
 * Sent economic and military**
 * aid to France to help them**
 * keep their indochina colony** || **EISENHOWER**
 * Believes in**
 * domino theory**
 * sends military**
 * advisor to south**
 * -Ngo Dinh Diem** || **KENNEDY**
 * U.S. supports**
 * an overthrow.**
 * Sends 16,000**
 * advisors.** || **JOHNSON**
 * notes** ||


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

The whole congress gave Johnson the right to do anything necessary. ||  ||  ||
 * 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 ||


 * = American ground troops enter Vietnam  =

The US sends military to Vietnam! || ||

My questions about the Vietnam War: