Vietnam Flashcards
Us tactics
Agent orange Search and destroy Rolling thunder Conventional warfare Used 300ib for every m w c in Vietnam £400000 to kill one vc
Vc tactics
Tunnels Guerilla warfare Booby traps Tripwires Killed us troops during night They wore civilian clothing so gone without recognition
How did protest and media cause the withdrew of the us troop
Media caused a massive problem at home because the people in us found out that us were failing and soldiers where being killed and servely injured and they did succeed in killing vc only thing killed was civilians such as mai lai 400 civilllains killed
700000 protestors
Why was USA increasingly involved in Vietnam
The idea of containment and dominos theory
Different countries such as Laos Cambodia Thailand and eventually countries such as Australia.
Jfk and LBJ are more anti communist so they sent us personnel to vn
The gulf of tokin is where a patrol boat was shot down by north v
LBJ informed congress and he order to take action
LBJ didn’t want to be the first American president to lose a war in USA
What did the people do to stop the. From sending them Vietnam
Burned there draft cards
Strikes and the public voted for Nixon whom was anti war and he became president this showed they don’t like the war
What was the text offensive
1968 the vc launched an attack on us bases in sv they attacked over 100 cites took control of many towns 4500 vc soldiers tied down a us for 2 days
How many soldiers were being killed a week
300
