PRESENTATION OUTLINE
OBJECTIVES
- 1. Domino theory
2. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
3. Ho Chi Minh Trail
4. Hawks and Doves
5. Tet Offensive
6. Vietnamization
7. Kent State Shootings
8. Legacy of the Vietnam War
The domino theory was a theory made up by General Dwight D. Eisenhower that consisted of several countries that if we did not intervene, those countries would fall to communism.
Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution
The gulf of Tonkin Resolution was the resolution made by congress granting President Johnson to take his authority over to Asia.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail was made by congress from Asia. The system provided support, in the form of manpower and materiel, to the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (called the Viet Cong or "VC" by its opponents) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), or North Vietnamese Army, during the Vietnam War.
DOVES AND HAWKS are terms applied to people based upon their views about a military conflict. A dove is someone who opposes the use of military pressure to resolve a dispute; a hawk favors entry into war. The terms came into widespread use during the Vietnam War, but their roots are much older than that conflict.
The Tet Offensive, or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops.
The Kent State shootings, were the shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of neutral Cambodia by United States military forces.
Vietnam: War's Lasting Legacy. More than three decades after the Vietnam War ended, the Vietnamese people continue to live with the consequences of Agent Orange, a defoliant that has come to symbolize the unintended consequences of warfare
