Vietnam+War

4/5/11 =﻿Map p. 839=


 * Vietnam is long and has a long coast (bordered by South China Sea, Laos, and Cambodia)
 * U.S. has a lot of bases in South Vietnam & also in Thailand
 * Ho Chi Ming Trail (//communist suply route//) comes from North Korean, through LAOS, and to South Korea
 * 1970, America launched an attack on Cambodia
 * "South East Asia" = Vietnam and/or Cambodia

4/5/11 =﻿TIMELINE=


 * p.816 - Ho Chi Minh opposed French authority (who had been trying to restore its authority since 1945), and wanted American support.
 * Ho Chi Minh was both nationalist and communist, but America (Truman Administration) ignored him & Minh got support from communist S.U. **1954**


 * **fall of 1945** - Vietnam was declared an independent nation by Vietminh & the government (nationalism) was led by Ho Chi Minh after the surrender of Japan to Allied forces.
 * //National Liberation Committe of Vietnam// was created by Minh & his People's Congress
 * **1946** -
 * **1949** - French were able to establish a nominally independent national government under the leadership of the former emperor, Bao Dai ("playboy" = unable to assert real independent authority) because they gained control by pushing Ho Chi Minh into hiding and out of Hanoi.
 * **February 1950 -** Bao Dai regime was given recognition to by the Truman Administration and was given aid economically and militarily because the French appealed for support
 * **late 1953** - First Indochina War ends because the French were surrounded by Vietminh forces at Dien Bien Phu (indefensable site)
 * **Early 1954 -** at Dien Bien Phu, 12,000 French soldiers became surrounded, American aid was needed, but Eisenhower forbade any intervention = **May 7, 1954 -** French defense collapsed
 * **July 1954** - Geneva accords on Vietnam, temporary division at the 17th Parallel in Vietnam. North = Ho Chi Minh; South = pro-Western regime (Ngo Dinh Diem, member of Roman Catholic minority). //Marked the end of French commitment to Vietnam & the beginning of an expanded American presence.//
 * **1959 -** //National Liberation Fron (NFL or Viet Cong)// was created by Vietminh cadres for national unification
 * **1960 -** Start of Second Indochina War because the NFL began military operations in South Vietnam under orders from Hanoi to win military & manpower support
 * **end of 1967** -