Vietnam Test
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- Geneva Conference
- divided Vietnam into two separate nations
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Prime Minister in South Vietnam, non-communist, supported by US but not by own people; assasinated by US on Nov. 19, 1963
- Viet Cong
- South Vietnamese communists quickly gain support in the South after assasination of Diem
- Gulf of Tonkin
- Three US warships prepare to go into the Gulf. One has mechanical failure and the other two go in. Communication fails and only one boat comes back out, but all the crew from the other boat is on the remaining boat. There was apparently an attack
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- gave US President complete control over all actions in Vietnam
- Tet Offenisve
- January 30th, 1968 NV and US agree to an armistice for three days during Tet, the Vietnamese new year. US couldn't armisitce with Viet Cong b/c they didn't know who they were, and so they attacked. US citizens upset because now we're fighting North and South Vietnam
- What did the soliders encounter?
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1. Unknown enemy
2. New type of war: guerilla
3. Fighting the elements, aka jungle rot (meat cong) - Operation Ranchhands
- Agent Orange and Napalm, used to burn vegetation
- Agent Orange
- Develped by Germans to use on Russia; US developed in VA Tech; tells plant to grow inside itself (reversed growing process) 8 oz kills an acre of forest land; US used 10 million gallons; kills major crops, and in doing so, kills humans, animals, and fish
- Napalm
- Mix of vasoline and gasoline and has some other chemical that ignites when exposed to carbon; had to throw self in dirt to get rid of it
- My Lai Massacre
- Oh you know what this is with the villiage that has the Viet Cong people but all that are there are women and children and the marines line them up and kill them all because they won't say where the men are and it causes all these problems in the states
- conscientious objectors
- Opposed to fighting in the war on moral grounds
- University of Michigan
- location of first teach-in
- University of California at Berkely
- First blow of student revolution
- Tim Leary
- created LSD