HIST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Geneva Conference (1954), Operation Rolling Thunder, Neil Sheehan
Why and how did the US go into Vietnam?
Origins of US involvement
Ho Chi Minh
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Viet Minh (Vietnamese League for Independence)
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Truman-summer of 1950
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Eisenhower's "New Look" foreign policy
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Dien Bien Phu, 1954
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Geneva Accords
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Kennedy and Vietnam
National Liberation Front (Vietcong) 1960
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"Flexible response"
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Reporters- David Halberstam (New York Times) and Neil Sheehan (UPI) 1962
articles
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June 1963
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November 1, 1963 coup d'état
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Why and when did the US escalate with ground troops?
Escalation, 1965-1967
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 1964
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Pleiku, November 1964
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Operation Rolling Thunder "sustained reprisal"
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July 1965 White House decision
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General William Westmoreland
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What was the strategy?
Vietnam War
People thought the US made a mistake when sending troops to fight in Vietnam
(more so towards the end)
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Johnson announces he will not seek reelection and views Vietnam as his failure
("bomb them harder")
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Vietnam War
Monday, March 26, 2018
1:22 PM