VIetnam-Path


 * =**VIETNAM - THE PATH TO WAR **=

You all know that the United States was involved in a major military conflict during the Cold War ... but why? What was America's "path to war"? Using the resources below and Creating America, your task this evening is to write a description in YOUR OWN WORDS of the causes of American involvement in Southeast Asia. Pretend you are writing it as a summary for on online encyclopedia or textbook. Your description should ...


 * be between two and four paragraphs
 * continue the following terms - France, Ho Chi Minh, communism, Ngo Dinh Diem, military advisors, Gulf of Tonkin
 * be IN YOUR OWN WORDS (remember, it's easy to check this online)
 * contain two images THAT RELATE TO YOUR WRITING
 * Should end with the first Marines landing in Vietnam in 1965 || [[image:unit8gabbypjessicag09:ho-chi-minh-1-sized.jpg caption="Communist Ho Chi Minh"]] ||
 * Communist Ho Chi Minh ||
 * Leader of South Vietnam- Ngo Dinh Diem ||
 * Leader of South Vietnam- Ngo Dinh Diem ||
 * The Gulf Of Tonkin ||
 * The Gulf Of Tonkin ||

Need some help? How about ... //Creating America// [|Into Vietnam (Overview)] from ABC-CLIO [|**Vietnam War** - the **Causes**] [|Timeline of the Vietnam War] [|Vietnam Online Timeline] Causes of the Vietnam War video below 
 *  The Vietnam War began in the late 1800s and began to form in July 1954 with the French troops being forced to withdrwfrom Vietnam after a hundred years of colonial rule. In the 1930s communists revolts are led by Ho Chi Minh which means following the light. He forms a vietminh party in the 1940s in order to liberate vietnam. In 1954 the french were fighting for four years and the United States gets out of the Korean war and does not want to spread communist but some people want to. A roman catholic Ngo Dinh Diem is now the leader of South Vietnum but he is not that easy to get along with and he went against some buddist rights and wont hold free elections. Truman sent money and military aid to France.

Eisenhowers opinion of this is if one country falls the others will also fall just like dominos.In December 1960 the northern Communist Party forms the National Ldiberation Front (NFL), trying to reunifye the country. In reply to this John F Kennedy began to supply the military with equipment and supports the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem  in 1963. In March 1973 until the fall of Saigon and the capture of the South Vietnamese presidential palace on April 30, 1975 which was the final closing of the war. At 4:03 am two United States marines were killed in a rocket attack at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. The two men were the last ones two die in the war; and hundreds of thousdands civilian were killed over this time period. ** ||