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VIETNAMESE WAR, VIET CONG - Coggle Diagram

- - - - USA supporting communism
  - - - during WW2 Japan took over
    - - HCM (Ho Chi Minh) creates VC
        
        anti resistant movement
    - - Japan loses Vietnam
      - HCM storms into Hanoi and declares independence
  - - - HCM supported by China
    - - France pull out of Vietnam
  - - - comes into power in 1955
      - supported by USA
      - anti-communist
    - - own advisors overthrow and kill him
- - - - bombing of HCM trail
      - NV do everything to keep trail open
  - - - NV open fire on US ships
    - - use all means necessary to achieve peace and security
  - - - burn houses
      - only 2% were actually succesful
      - kill anyone suspected of being a supporter
        
        report body counts
      - SV citizens living in constant gea
    - - agent orange
        
        82 million litres
      - napalm
    - - 'the draft'
        
        prejudiced
        
        minority groups often targeted
        
        30% of AA's drafted
        
        19% Americans
        
        college rule
        
        exempt
      - people did not want to do it
        
        leave after 1 year
        
        low morale
      - forcing young men to join the military
      - drug and alcohol abuse
        
        low morale
        
        high suicide and death rates
      - morals&understanding
    - - negative view on Vietnam
      - CBS
        
        Walter Cronkite
        
        negative impact
      - scared US citizens
- - - - early new year holiday
  - - - bombing
      - $20 billion a year
    - - immediately taken back
- - - - Walter Cronkite
    - - shift in beliefs
  - - - violent
      - peace wanting people
        
        hippie 'movement'
      - student protests
        
        40,000 students on strike
      - parents protesting
        
        mothes
        
        parental issue
      - burning of US flag
      - politicians using the civilians views in their speeches
        
        republican party
      - hey hey LBJ how many kids have you killed today
  - - - told VC were there
      - destroy homes etc
    - - very pro vietnam
      - believed they could win
- - - - doesnt want to commit to Vietnam
      - Cuba
        
        civil rights movement
        
        doesnt want to repeat KW
  - - - wanted to stop the spread of ideaology
    - - Robert McNamara pro involvement
    - - sends 50,000 troops to vietnam
- - - - new pesident
      - Henry Kissinger- one of the main generals
        
        start to withdraw troops
        
        1969-1973
    - - knows war cannot be won
    - - less communist threat
      - both want improved relations with USA
  - - - signed in 1973
      - Le dao replaces HCM
    - - starts to bomb Laos and Cambodia
    - - economic problems
      - tensions
      - ruins superpower reputation
- - - - not used to it
      - never sure of enemy location