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Learning Objective 8.I: Explain the causes and effects of the Vietnam War.

What were the causes of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War?

Without the US air support and material aid the South Vietnamese had no chance against the North.

Learning Objective 8.I: Explain the causes and effects of the Vietnam War.

How did the following events impact the course of the Vietnam War?

GULF OF TONKIN ESCALATION OF FORCES: BODY COUNT

It was the foundation stone upon which the US had deeper Raising the fighting strength 75,000 to 125,000 men
involvement in the Vietnam War.

NAPALM AGENT ORANGE

US dropped almost 400,000 tons of napalm bombs and Vietnamese
people who were on the receiving end, 60% suffered fifth-degree
burns, meaning that the burn went down to the bone.
During the Vietnam War, the US sprayed Agent Orange on the jungles
and fields of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The Americans sought to
defoliate the trees and bushes, so that enemy soldiers would be
exposed. They also wanted to kill off the agricultural crops that fed
the Viet Cong

TET OFFENSIVE MASSIVE PROTESTS

Protests forced the administration to rethink the vietnam policy and

Veit Cong launched an attack on Saigon violating the truce, they end the war.
themselves had proposed.

VIETNAMIZATION ROY BENAVIDEZ

 He evacuated soldiers from a burning helicopter, call in air strikes,
This strategy aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam organize return fire, administer morphine to wounded soldiers, and
War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. recovered classified documents.

Learning Objective 8.I: Explain the causes and effects of the Vietnam War.

Why did the U.S. lose the Vietnam War? What were the long term consequences of the Vietnam War?

CAUSES FOR U.S. LOSS WAR POWERS ACT

The number of casualties and caskets that were brought back from
the war
This act tried to restrain the President the ability to engage in armed
conflict if he was doing something that the Congress disagreed with
and set up a mechanism where Congress could consider war power
resolutions that would limit the President's ability to act in certain
situations

26th AMENDMENT FALL OF SAIGON

This amendment set a national voting age of 18 years old. A tsunami of Evacuees Rushed to the 100’s of helicopters trying to
fulfill physical limitations.

CREDIBILITY GAP

The Media largely supported the US efforts with the main factor of
American public disillusionment being the rising number of American
casualties.