Protests Begin

Students for a Democratic Society

-teach-ins about the war

-picketing the White House

-backlash against anti-war view

Protests Begin

-American forces were over ½ million

-leaders predicting end of war soon

-Jan. 1968 major attack by Vietcong shows no sign of defeat to come

-public opinion turns on LBJ

Tet Offensive

-American forces were over ½ million

-leaders predicting end of war soon

-Jan. 1968 major attack by Vietcong shows no sign of defeat to come

-public opinion turns on LBJ

Tet Offensive

-American forces were over ½ million

-leaders predicting end of war soon

-Jan. 1968 major attack by Vietcong shows no sign of defeat to come

-public opinion turns on LBJ

Year--1968

-LBJ scales back war effort and decides to not seek re-election

-assassinations of King, RFK

-college protests

Colombia

-Democratic Convention, Chicago

rioting occurs

Year--1968

-LBJ scales back war effort and decides to not seek re-election

-assassinations of King, RFK

-college protests

Colombia

-Democratic Convention, Chicago

rioting occurs

Nixon Wins

-Nixon wins election but stays in Vietnam???

-Vietnamization

-bombing of Laos and Cambodia

-Nixon tries to leave without admitting defeat

Nixon Wins

-Nixon wins election but stays in Vietnam???

-Vietnamization

-bombing of Laos and Cambodia

-Nixon tries to leave without admitting defeat

Homefront

-My Lai Massacre, 1968

-protest renew over Cambodia

-Kent State

-Jackson State

-Pentagon Papers

Homefront

-My Lai Massacre, 1968

-protest renew over Cambodia

-Kent State

-Jackson State

-Pentagon Papers

Vietnam Ends

-early 1973 US leaves Vietnam

-Paris Peace Accords

-Fall of Siagon, 1975

-58,000 killed 365,000 wounded

-veterans treated differently

-Passage of the 26th Amendment

-Vietnam Memorial

-Vietnamese refugees

-War Powers Act

limits the ability of Presidents to wage war

Vietnam Ends

-early 1973 US leaves Vietnam

-Paris Peace Accords

-Fall of Siagon, 1975

-58,000 killed 365,000 wounded

-veterans treated differently

-Passage of the 26th Amendment

-Vietnam Memorial

-Vietnamese refugees

-War Powers Act

limits the ability of Presidents to wage war