Vietnam • After WWII = decolonization – countries wanted to be free of European control • Vietnam known as the French Indochina Why?... Vietnam War• Ho Chi Minh led Communists agains
Trang 1Vietnam
• After WWII =
decolonization –
countries wanted to be
free of European control
• Vietnam known as the
French Indochina Why?
Trang 2Vietnam War
• Ho Chi Minh led Communists against
French in 1946 – took control of most of Vietnam, French took control of the South
• The division was along the 17th parallel
Trang 3The US gets involved…
• Eisenhower and Kennedy supported
the anti-communists who controlled
S Vietnam
• 1965 – Johnson sent troops to
Vietnam (the first of about 2.7 million
to serve there)
• US withdrew in 1973 after 58,000
soldiers were killed and 300,000
wounded
• 1975 – N Vietnam took over S
Vietnam, creating one communist
nation
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Trang 4VIETNAM WAR
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Self-Rule
Leader
Supporting group _
Supporting group Viet Cong
Supporting countries _
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Supporting country _
Government
Outcome of War
Status of the Country today _
INVADES
(1955 - 19 _)
US involvement
(19 _- 19 )