Protests Begin
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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