COLD WAR CONFLICT IN VIETNAM

COLD WAR IN VIETNAM

• the U.S. and the southern-based Republic of Vietnam opposed the southern-based revolutionary movement
• was the second of two major conflicts that spread throughout Indochina.
• The First Indochina War was a struggle between Vietnamese nationalists and the French colonial regime aided by the United States

EVENTS IN VIETNAM

• March 1959 Ho Chi Minh declared all out war in order to unite Vietnam under one rule.
• August 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is passed by the US Congress.
• March 8, 1965 The first official US combat troops arrive in Vietnam.
• January1968 North Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive attacking around 100 cities in Southern Vietnam.

FACTS

• The Viet Cong were Vietnamese rebels in the South who fought against the Southern Vietnam government and the United States.
• The US chosen president of the South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, was not a good leader
• 58,220 US soldiers died in the Vietnam War

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