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VIETNAM WAR/AMERICAN WAR (GENEVA CONFERENCE (North Vietnam would be…
VIETNAM WAR/AMERICAN WAR
GENEVA CONFERENCE
North Vietnam would be controlled by Ho Chi Minh and would have a communist rule. South Vietnam would remain being noncummunist and be ruled by Ngo Dinh Diem
In Geneva 1954, a peace conference was held that determined Vietnam temporary division at the seventeenth parallel.
Ho Chi Minh and his comrades as well as the globalization of the Cold War, persuade the United States to support the French war effort then to the government of South Vietnam.
U:S Presindent Dwight Eisenhower aplied a domino theory to Vietnam With U.S support they avoided elections that would bring communist support globally
In 1960 Vietnamese nationalist formed the National Liberation Front (NLF) to fight for freedom from South Vietnamese rule.
VIETNAM'S "AMERICAN WAR"
The United States and South Vietnam tried to end Viet Cong (The National Liberation Front), but was able to achieve a draw.
On August 4th 1964, The USS Maddox reported that it had been attacked by torpedo boats operating out of North Vietnam, known as The Gulf of Tonkin incident. This led to president Lyndon Johnson sending the first US combat troops in Vietnam in March 1965.
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson increased U.S involvement in Vietnam, ordering a bombing campaign against North Vietnam, sending troops to help the south vietnamese
In order to help their supporters in South Vietnam, North Vietnam sent weapons, manpower, ammunition and other supplies during the Vietnam War, known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail
As a way of eliminating the US troops, The North Vietnamese used Guerrilla warfare. This tactic was widely used by the Vietcong. The Vietcong guerrilla fighters would sneak up on unaware U.S. troops, and attack them. They would pose as citizens or farmers and when least expected, they would surprise attack U.S. troops using arms provided by Ho Chi Minh.
VIETNAM'S VICTORY
The war was extended in to Cambodia though bombing and invasion in 1969 & 1970 and continued bombing North Vietnam.
U.S troops withdrew and eventually in January of 1973 the American War ended with the negotiated Paris Peace Accords.
Vietnam was happy that the opposition towards grew in the US. Richard Nixon pledged in 1968 to end the war. After his election, he developed a plan to turn over the war to South Vietnam (Vietnamization) by escalation the conflict.
Nixon opened diplomatic channels to the soviet unions as well as China in hopes to get them to pursue North Vietnam into a negociated end to the war
Overall there was still a war because forces from North Vietnam and NLF struggled to united South Vietnam and it was achieved when the military of the South was defeated in 1975 and the nations unifying in 1976
FIGHT AGAINST THE FRENCH
Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a battle fought between the French and the Vietminh (Vietnamese Communist and nationalist).
On September 2, 1945, Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh declares independence from France.
The French wanted to reclaim Vietnam, while the Vietnamese wanted their independence.
The defeat at Dien Bien Phu led the French government to agree to the independence of Vietnam at the Geneva Conference in 1954.
The Viet Minh, an organization that led the struggle for Vietnamese independence from French rule, was originally formed in China in May 1941 by Ho Chi Minh. During their struggle against the French, Communist China sent aid and arms to the Viet Mihn. The french were defeated at Dienbienphu in 1954.
Ho Chi Minh
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Ngo Dinh Diem
"Vietnam War"
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Richard Nixon
Vietnam unified