Section 30 1 moving toward conflict
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Moving Toward Conflict
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Moving Toward Conflict
US Supports France in Vietnam
• Nationalist Movements– Protest French colonial
rule – Protest Japanese rule
during WWII • Ho Chi Minh formed
Vietminh • Declared independence
when Japan was defeated
US Supports France in Vietnam
• French Indochina War (1946-1954) – France retook
control of South – Vietminh
controlled North – US Supported
France
• Domino Theory – Eisenhower’s justification to fight in
Vietnam– If one nation falls to Communism,
others will
US Supports France in Vietnam
US Supports France in Vietnam• Vietminh take
Dien Bien Phu in 1954
• Geneva Accords divide Vietnam
• Communist North and Nationalist South
• Call for elections in 1956
The US Steps In
• Ngo Dinh Diem (South) – Refused to hold elections– Supported by US – Corrupt regime
• Vietcong Form in Resistance to Diem– Communist opposition group – Supplied along Ho Chi Minh Trail – Make Southern Vietnam unstable
Ho Chi Minh
North
Ngo Dinh Diem
South
The US Steps In
• JFK and Vietnam – Supported Diem to fight Communism – Diem government unstable and
corrupt– US removed Diem in 1963
• South grows unstable• Increased influence of Vietcong
LBJ Expands the Conflict
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution – Response to
incident in Gulf of Tonkin
• North Vietnamese ships fired on US ship
• LBJ responded by bombing Vietnam
LBJ Expands the Conflict– Resolution
Provisions• Gave LBJ broad
military powers • Launched
Operation Rolling Thunder
