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Role of Leaders - Coggle Diagram
Role of Leaders
Kennedy
Counter Insurgency operations
Search & destroy missions against Vietcong
Strategic Hamlet's Program
Moving villagers into fortified villages
only alienated peasant population more
Green Berets
Encouraged Diem to introduce political & social reforms
Results
Diem removed due to lack of public favour
"Morally locked" US to south Vietnam govt
Increasing numbers of military advisors
17 000 by Kennedy's death
Johnson
Gulf of Tonkin Incident August 1964
US Response: Immediately bombed North Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Authorise president to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks against US forces in order to prevent further aggression
Used as a legal justification by US for the next 6 years in the war