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When Nixon announced that he had sent U.S.troops to attack Vietcong supply lines in Cambodia,protests erupted on college campuses. At Kent State nervous National Guard troops killed four students.

A new North Vietnamese offensive in March 1972 brought increased bombing.

In January 1973, all
parties agreed to a peace. U.S. troops came home but North Vietnamese troops were allowed to remain in the South.

In March 1975, they
defeated the government of South Vietnam.

Vietnamese deaths topped 2 million. The victorious Communists punished many in the South a million and a half people fled the country. Communist rebels, called the Khmer Rouge, took Cambodia and killed at least 2 million people.

The United States suffered 58,000 dead and 303,000 wounded. Surviving American soldiers found it difficult to come home, as they met with hostility or neglect.

The war changed American
foreign policy and caused a feeling of mistrust toward the government that remains.

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Vietcong launched surprise attacks the Tet Offensive.

After weeks of fighting, the U.S. commander said the Vietcong had been defeated, but American confidence in the war was deeply shaken.

President Johnson popularity fell sharply and dropped out the election race.

Richard Nixon won the election and vowed to end the Vietnam war.

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President Johnson’s decision to send American troops to Vietnam was widely popular, although

By 1967, about 500,000 American soldiers were fighting in Vietnam.

By 1967, Americans were divided into hawks who supported administration policy and doves
who wanted the war to end. Many felt that doves were showing disloyalty by protesting while Americans were fighting.

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Johnson launched a major bombing attack on North Vietnam’s cities.

This bombing was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam's communist leaders.

Also reduce their capacity to wage war against U.S.supported government of South Vietnam.

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America during the war Unrest was growing on college campuses in the early 1960's was growing on college campuses in the early 1960's as the New Left urged sweeping changes in American society.

In 1965 this movement began to criticize U.S. policy in Vietnam.

Thousands marched on Washington to protest the war. Eventually, some draft-resisters were imprisoned, and many deserted to Canada.

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Gulf of Tonkin

U.S. destroyers were destroyed in the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese torpedo boats.

President Johnson retaliated with a  bombing attack.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution effectively launched the U.S. in the Vietnam war.

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Ngo Dinh Diem Demise

In late 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem start losing support in the south.

He begin to act harshly to citizens in the south.

The U.S.and military leaders in the south supported the plan to overthrow Diem.

The U.S. didn't want South Vietnam to fall to Communist North.

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In 1956 an election was called to restore unity in Vietnam.

Ngo Dinh Diem the prime minster of South Vietnam canceled all elections and declared himself head of the new government in Vietnam.

President Eisenhower supported Diem, fearing of Ho winning the national  election at that time.

Opponents of Diem in the south a group called Vietcong started to do guerrilla attacks.

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The Vietnamese communists and other nationalists continued to fight the french.

The American helped the french by sending military supplies to help the war effort.

The nationalists won in 1954 and a peace agreement split the   country temporarily

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Beginnings to an everlasting War

After WWII Japan withdrew forces from Vietnam.

The French were the only country left which Emperor Bao Dai in control of the country.

Ho’s Viet Minh seized an opportunity and revolted against the french emperor.

After seizing one of the northeren cities they declared Vietnam The Democratic Republic of Vietnam with HO as their president.