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John F Kennedy
Born as John Fitzgerald Kennedy may 29 1917 in Brooklyn Massachusetts. He defeated Richard Nixon in the 1960 US Presidental Election. He was the second youngest to be elected next toTheodore Rosevelt, and he was 42 when sworn into office. In his earlier years he also worked for the US NAVY. He was assasinated nov 22 1963 in Dallas Texas. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
During the Vietnam War between1954-75 as part of Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft bombed many targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. This massive bombardment was intended to decrease the moral of North Vietnam's Communist leaders and reduce their chances of wageing war against south vietnam. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.Its purpose was to cut off Viet Minh supply lines into the neighboring Kingdom of Laos, to cripple them. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States (1961–1963). He is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President. He served as the US president shortly after John F. Kennedy was assasinated. -
Vietnam War Protests
Protesting againts the US fighting in Vietnam began 1964 and later grew. The US became stuck between two contrasting or opposing sides those who protested against the war and those who supported it. Many protesting were students, mothers, of course hippies, and even military vets. Soon opposition swiched from non-violent and peacful to malevolent acts of violence. -
Weapons of the Vietnam War
Most allied forces including the ARVN and Australians were armed with U.S. weapons, such as the M1 Carbine. The NVA, although having inherited a miscellany of American, French, and Japanese weapons from World War II and the First Indochina War, were largely armed and supplied by the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, and its Warsaw Pact allies. Homemade Rpg2s were manufactured in Vietnam. By 1969 the US had found and identified over 150 different weapons. -
Tet Offensive
70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. General Vo Nguyen Giap, leader of the Communist People's Army of Vietnam planned the offensive in an attempt both to encourage rebellion amongst the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to fall back. This was shown to the american public and weakend support for the war. -
Massacre of My Lai
A horrific act of violence against civilians during the Vietnam War, a company of American soldiers brutally killed the majority of the population of the in My Lai in March 1968. Though exact numbers remain unconfirmed, it is believed that as many as 500 people mostly women, children and the elderly were killed in the My Lai Massacre.. Higher-ranking U.S. Army officers managed to cover up the events of that day for a year. Soon one of the soldiers found out and the event spread like wild fire. -
Veitnamization
Upon taking office in 1969, U.S. President Richard Nixon introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization that was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. By transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. The increasingly unpopular war had created deep divisions in American society. Nixon believed his Vietnamization strategy, which involved building up South Vietnam's military strength in order to facilitate a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops. -
William Westmoreland
Born William Childs Westmoreland on March 26, he was a United States Army General, who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak (1964–68), during the Tet Offensive. He adopted a strategy of attrition against the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the North Vietnamese Army. He later served as U.S. Army Chief of Staff from 1968 to 1972. He died in July 18, 2005.
