HI114 Lecture Notes - Mccarthyism, Operation Rolling Thunder, Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution

• School: WLU
• Department: History
• Course: HI114
• Professor: Darren Mulloy

Document Summary

The vietnam war lyndon johnsons war 1963-1968: that bitch of a war . The great society at home v. the war abroad. His priority is not vietnam for a great society" his idea was to care for the elderly education reform, medicare, civil rights (domestic political programs) Johnson kept the kennedy advisors when he came into office e. g. Sv army is battered and looses battle after battle. March 1964= vc control 40% south vietnamese countryside. Mccarthyism was compared to chicken shit if they lost vietnam. The biggest failure in vietnam was the lack of south vietnamese government. There was no legitimate government that would keep the support of the sv people. August 2-4 attacks on maddox and turner joy. The maddox radar operator thinks the ship being attacked, in turn johnson demonstrates a massive retaliation and starts to bomb north vietnam. August 5 lbj- repeated acts of violence against the armed forces of the united.