HIS 372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Paris Peace Accords, Ken Burns, Lyndon B. Johnson
14 Nov 2017
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Vietnam is a war that does not seem to want to go away. Up until the vietnam war, there was a kind of victory culture in america: first, we fought native americans, then mexicans, spanish-american war, philippine- In each case, americans were fighting a distance enemy, an enemy we thought was less civilized, to spread democracy around the world: many of the vietnam soldiers had seen many john wayne movies, but when they got to. Major aspects of the war: lasted around 21 years, french phase collapsed in 1954, and we began to move into vietnam at the end of the. We began to assist the president of south. Vietnam with training the arvn: by the time of jfk"s death, we had about 50,000 americans in vietnam. In 1965, lyndon johnson begins to think about expanding the war. American forces begin to pour in south vietnam.
