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How far should we regard the Vietnam war as LBJ's war? - Coggle Diagram
How far should we regard the Vietnam war as LBJ's war?
Pressure from the public
You had to be tough on communism to win the election
No good way to handle it
JFK
Strategic hamlets
The number of military advisors increased to 16000 under JFK
Authorized the use of napalm in the fighting
Diem
Nixon
"peace with honour"
Eisenhower
Domino theory
Sent $2 billion to Vietnam and around 1000 military advisors
Support of Diem
Geneva agreement
LBJ
Gulf of Tonkin resolution gave him absolute power over Vietnam - confirmation bias
Huge escalation - operation rolling thunder, sending in troops
500,000 troops in Vietnam by 1967
Draft calls skyrocketed and so did draft resistance
Anti-war demonstrations
Truman
Fearing that communism was gonna spread to Vietnam, Truman sent over transport planes and jeeps, along with 35 military advisers, as part of a multimillion-dollar aid package - by the end of Truman's presidency America was funding nearly a 1/3 of France's war effort