Before World War Two, Vietnam had been part of the French Empire.During the war,the country had been overrun by the Japanese. The leader in the Vietnam War was Ho Chi Minh. During the 1930's he helped found the Indochinese Communist Party. This organization had many goals, some of the including: Making Indochina completely independent; Bring democratic freedoms to the masses; Realize equality between man and woman; and Establish a worker-peasant-soldier government. On September 2nd,1945, Ho Chi Minh proclaimed it independent of France. Toward the end of 1945, 35,000 French soldiers under the command of World War II General Jacques Philippe Leclerc showed up in South Vietnam to restore French rule. Viet Minh immediately started a guerrilla campaign to mess with them. The French then succeed in moving the Viet Minh from Saigon. The Unites States aided the French during the French Indochina War with Billions of dollars spent in military aid and equipment. shortly divided Vietminh along the 17th parallel. The leader of Communistic North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh. The leader of the anti-communistic South Vietnam was Ngo Dihn Diem. Some practices of Diem that angered the South Vietnamese was restricting Buddhist practices. The Vietcong's were communist opposition that formed in the south and were there to stop the South. The actions the U.S. took on November 1, 1963 was for military officers launch a coup d'état against Di?m, with the tacit approval of the Kennedy administration.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a joint resolution which the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 135[1] and the destroyer USS Maddox on August 2. there was about 525,000 American troops in Vietnam in 1967.Viet Cong fought a guerrilla war of ambush, terrorism, and sabotage; they used small units to maintain a hold on the countryside.Richard Nixon was elected President in 1968. Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end the U.S. involvement in the war and expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops. The last of the American combat soldiers left Vietnam in March of 1973.April 30th, Evacuation of CIA station personnel by Air America on the rooftop of 22 Gia Street in Saigon.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a joint resolution which the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 135[1] and the destroyer USS Maddox on August 2. there was about 525,000 American troops in Vietnam in 1967.Viet Cong fought a guerrilla war of ambush, terrorism, and sabotage; they used small units to maintain a hold on the countryside.Richard Nixon was elected President in 1968. Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end the U.S. involvement in the war and expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops. The last of the American combat soldiers left Vietnam in March of 1973.April 30th, Evacuation of CIA station personnel by Air America on the rooftop of 22 Gia Street in Saigon.
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Web Quest
1.Who sent Troops into Vetnam in 1950?
2.How mnay people were killed on both sides?
3.How many people were sent to fight?
4.When was the "Battalion Seas" battle?
5.What is the "Bear Chain" Mission?
6.What month was Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong positioned in South Vietnam?
7. What does "ACAV" Stand for?
8.Who was the commander between 1968 - 1969?
9.Who took postion at Michelin rubber plantation in 1969?
10.Who was a popualr musian during 1968?
11.What type of people were carrying a guitar and a M16 rifle?
12.What is a "AFRVN radio"?
13. Who was burned October 5th, 1963?
14. where was an elderly woman dressed in black, kneels amid young children praying for peace and an end to the Vietnam War?
15.What was the name of the island of peace?
Web Quest
1.Who sent Troops into Vetnam in 1950?
2.How mnay people were killed on both sides?
3.How many people were sent to fight?
4.When was the "Battalion Seas" battle?
5.What is the "Bear Chain" Mission?
6.What month was Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong positioned in South Vietnam?
7. What does "ACAV" Stand for?
8.Who was the commander between 1968 - 1969?
9.Who took postion at Michelin rubber plantation in 1969?
10.Who was a popualr musian during 1968?
11.What type of people were carrying a guitar and a M16 rifle?
12.What is a "AFRVN radio"?
13. Who was burned October 5th, 1963?
14. where was an elderly woman dressed in black, kneels amid young children praying for peace and an end to the Vietnam War?
15.What was the name of the island of peace?