Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Vietnam War - Coggle Diagram

- - - - North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces begin an assault throughout South Vietnam on five major cities, dozens of military posts, and dozens more towns and villages.
        
        Millions of protesters take to the streets across the United States on November 15, 1969, to protest the United States' prolonged participation in Vietnam. The antiwar protests are the greatest public demonstrations in US history.
- - - - Domestic anti-communist sentiment affected international policy ideas.
        
        As the conflict dragged on, the quest for a "honorable peace" continued the decision to keep soldiers in Vietnam.
        
        Beginning in 1949, America was seized by fear of domestic communists. The Red Scare, led by the virulently anti-communist Senator Joseph McCarthy, dominated the country for most of the 1950s. McCarthy saw communists everywhere in America and fostered a climate of fear and distrust.
        
        In 1950, the first US military advisers were dispatched to assist the French in their fight against the communists of Northern Vietnam. The Korean War began the same year, pitting Communist North Korean and Chinese forces against the United States and its UN allies.
        
        It was part of the wider Cold War clash and the American fight against the spread of Communism throughout the world, although there was no direct confrontation between the major powers.
      - They feared that other Asian nations might become satellites of either the Soviet Union or Communist China, as nations in Eastern Europe had done.