Vietnam War
Jami Baird, Brittany Saucedo, & Sydney McNabb
Beginning
War
During the War
By 1960, neither side was able to make gains. The American public sharply divided, President Richard Nixon, made an agreement with North Vietnam that allowed the U.S. to withdraw its forces in 1973. Two years later, communists armies reunited Vietnam.
During the War
By the end of 1975, the Laos and the Cambodia had communists governments. Dictator Pol Pot, became the dictator in Cambodia. He massacred more than a million Cambodians.
During the War
North Vietnam, which had defeated the French colonial administration of Vietnam in 1954, to unify the entire country under a single communist regime modeled after those of the Soviet Union and China. The South Vietnamese government, on the other hand, fought to preserve a Vietnam more closely aligned with the West. U.S. military advisers.
President Lyndon Johnson
In March 1965, President Lyndon Johnson decided to send U.S. troops to South Vietnam to prevent a total victory for the Communists.The Communists government in North Vietnam responded by sending more of its forces into the south.
In the beginning, many of the leaders of Independent States in SouthEast Asia admired western and political practices. They wanted to form democratic, like those in the west along with capitalist states.
Hope for Rapid Economic Growth Fails
Southeast Asian societies showed signs of moving forward more democratic govs. One example is the Phillippines. There, President Ferdinand Marcos came to power in 1965. Fraud and corruption became widespread in the Marcos regime. In the early 1980’s marcos was accused of involvement in the killing of Benigno Aquino, a leader of the political opposition. The public forced Marcos to flee the country in 1986. Corazon Aquino, wife of the murdered opposition leader, became president and worked for democratic reforms.
Women in the South and Southeast Asia
Across south and southeast Asia, women's roles have changed a lot. After independence, India’s leaders wanted to extend womens rights. The constitution of 1950, didn’t allow discrimination based on gender and called on equal pay for equal work. Child marriage was outlawed, women were encouraged to tend school and work. Virtually all of the newly independent states granted women full, legal and political rights.
Events during Vietnam War
Seeds of Conflict 1945-1960
America Commits 1961-1964
The Jungle War 1965-1968
The Bitter End 1969-1975Bao Dai
The last emperor of Vietnam, who rose to the throne in 1926. Bao Dai proved to be an ineffective ruler and was unable to exercise any of his powers without the support of the French colonial regime. One year after the Geneva Conference created a republic in South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem outsmarted Bao Dai and took power, after that Bao Dai retired to France.
Ho Chi-Minh
In 1945 he declared Vietnam’s independence and became the first president of the republic. In 1923 he was elected to the Committee of the Peasants International Congress.
“You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.” - Ho Chi MinhLyndon B. Johnson
The 36th U.S. president, who promised to honor his predecessor John F. Kennedy’s limited U.S. commitments in Vietnam but ended up escalating the war drastically after the U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in1964. Empowered by the resolution, Johnson authorized Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965 to bomb North Vietnam into submission. When this failed, he sent more than 500,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam and ultimately converted the conflict into a protracted and bitter war.