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LECTURE GUIDE: Background on the Vietnam Conflict

 

Background on Vietnam

            French Control:

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• Controlled Vietnam until World War II

 

            Japanese Control:

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            American Involvement in Southeast Asia:

• Colonies in Southeast Asia (i.e. __________________)

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French Indo-China War

1945 – 1954

Vietnamese are fighting for independence from the French

 

• _______________ leads fight for __________________.

• Communist __________ provides direct ________ to the Vietnamese

• ___________ decides he needs to extend _____________ to South East Asia

• Results in _____________ aid to __________ - _____________ and _______________ assistance ($133 million)

• In 1950

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  • ______________ solidifies American belief in ______________.

 

      1950 – 1952:

• U.S. sent $50 ___________ worth of economic and ______________ assistance to French

• By _________ the U.S. was __________ for _____ of cost of war

• French attempt to __________ Vietnamese to fight _________ (shows a lack of Vietnamese _____________ for French/American effort.

• French had lost 90,000 soldiers - ____________________________

 

       Dien Bien Phu:

• Remote village in Northwest corner of Vietnam

• Both _________ and French has amassed ______________ there in 1954

• General Giap of _____________ led an _______________ on the village in March ‘54

• _______ debates an ________ strike, but decides __________ it – without U.S. _________ French are ________ and ________________ on May 7th

 

 

      Geneva Accords:

• July 20th 1954

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• Nationwide _____________ set for __________ to _________ country

• ___________________ is in power in the ___________

• ____________________ is in power in the __________

 

      American Reaction to Accords:

• Happy French colonization has __________, but ________________ states that it is now U.S. __________________ to defend South Vietnam from _________________.

• U.S. and South Vietnam do ________ officially ________ the _____________.

• Form ____________ (South East Asian Treaty Organization)

• Goal: maintain a ___________________ S. Vietnam and prevent a communist __________ in 1956 __________.

 

                                  U.S. is firmly committed to Diem government

 

 

Ngo Dinh Diem – South Vietnam

• 10 million residents

• _____________ devastated by 14 years of war and ____________________________.

• Diem is ________ supported by the countryside

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• 10,000 – 15,000 _________ Vietnamese ________________ living in the _________ to incite problem

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Ho Chi Minh - North Vietnam

• 14 million resident

• _______ trained and ___________ army (thanks to the _______________)

• Organized and ____________ government

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Insurgents in the South

Goal: build socialism in the North and carry out a communist revolution in South

 

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• ___________ aides insurgents by moving ____________ and _________ South through _______ (_________________________)

• Founded the ___________ (National Liberation Front) to _____________ insurgents – later called the _______________.

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• JFK sent more ____________ but not ____________ - believed in aid for ___________ (Army of the Republic of Vietnam)

 

 

The CIA

• _______ continues with _________ policies, including the ____________ of the ____________.

• __________ lead a protest (__________________)

• ____________ administration decided Diem has to ______

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Lyndon B. Johnson

1964

 

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• Conditions in South Vietnam became _________ after ________ - chaos followed with __________________________.

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