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What was the nature of the Vietnam War? - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Linkage October 1969 - Linking US concessions to the USSR and China to their assistance in ending the Vietnam War.
    - - ‘Rolling thunder’ - aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.
      - American ground offensive 1966-68 - Increase american troops in south vietnam by 200,000 in late 1965
        385,000 troops by 1966, 535,000 by 1968, us planes bombed vietnam from 1965 onwards
      - Secret bombing offensive against Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia March 1969 aim was to (failed): Sever enemy supply lines , Encourage Hanoi to agree to an acceptable peace, Destroy Vietnamese Communist HQ in Cambodia -- COSVN (Central Office for South Vietnam)
    - - Paris peace talks
        
        Their remain in power while America would let PAVN stay in South Vietnam and not insist upon a ceasefire in Cambodia and Laos.
        
        Kissinger rejected idea of a coalition government but offered a committee of National reconciliation (one third south vietnamese , one third communist and one third neutral) to oversee the constitution and elections.
        
        Kissinger thereby agreed the Communists as legitimate political force in South Vietnam.
- - - - Gulf of Tonkin Incident- Johnson announced two attacks on the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy, which led Johnson to propose the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving presidential power to wage war in Vietnam
- - - - Nearly half a million American troops were in Nam. There had been an increase of over 100,000 that year. over 9000 KIA from US. over a million and a half tonnes of explosives would be dropped on Northern Nam by Merica'
        
        By disillusion and broken by lack of progress, protest mounted internally in the US where as Northern Nam was preparing for a massive offensive in the new year.