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Vietnam War & US involvement - Coggle Diagram
Vietnam War & US involvement
Ho Chi Minh
Communist (north)
Popular with the people of both south and north vietnam
Wanted an independent Vietnam
Made a group called the Viet Minh (used Guerrilla tactics)
Diem
Capitalist (south)
Was helped by the US to fight the Vietcong
Dien Bien Phu
Between the Viet Minh (communist) and French for Vietnam to be an independent country, not be ruled by France
It lasted for 55 days
French surrendered
Viet Minh won so now they thought they could fight very powerful countries and win
Eisenhower
Domino theory
If one nation fell to communist so would others.
sent US troops to fight in the war
Kennedy
Strategic hamlets
A plan to keep the south Vietnamese people away from the north
reduce communist influence
Communism was spreading so he had to step in
sent in military advisors to train southern troops and funded the south and gave them weapons
Gulf of Tonkin
US ship thought that it was under attack by a north Vietnam ship
President Johnson thought it justified his retaliation (after a probable second attack was recorded)
America bombed north Vietnam land
Both presidents
Cold war was happening at the same time so they wanted to show off how powerful America was to the USSR