Anti War timeline by Reed Branch https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn en-us 2023-09-07 18:41:11 UTC 2023-09-07 18:49:04 UTC hello@padlet.com The Tet Offensive reed60009404 https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689341891
  • The Tet Offensive
  • Jan 31, 1968 – Sep 23, 1968
  • The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh and leaders in Hanoi planned the Tet Offensive in the hopes of achieving a decisive victory that would end the grinding conflict that frustrated military leaders on both sides.

    • ]]>     2023-09-07 18:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689341891     Democratic National Convention (1968) reed60009404 https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689342960
  • Democratic National Convention (1968)
  • Aug 26, 1968 – Aug 29, 1968
  • The primary goal of the Democratic National Convention is to officially nominate a candidate for president and vice president, adopt a comprehensive party platform and unify the party.





    • ]]>     2023-09-07 18:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689342960     My Lai Massacre reed60009404 https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689343988
  • My Lai Massacre
  • March 16, 1968
  • when Medina learned that a large group of Vietnamese civilians was responsible for the platoon's slow movement, Medina told him to “get rid of them.” Calley later insisted that Medina's directive to him was the impetus for the slaughter of most of the villagers at My Lai.


    • ]]>     2023-09-07 18:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689343988     Cambodia reed60009404 https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689345542
  • Cambodia
  • April 29, 1970
  • Why Did the U.S. Invade Cambodia? Cambodia was officially a neutral country in the Vietnam War, though North Vietnamese troops moved supplies and arms through the northern part of the country, which was part of the Ho Chi Minh trail that stretched from Vietnam to neighboring Laos and Cambodia

    • ]]>     2023-09-07 18:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689345542     Kent State reed60009404 https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689346840
  • Kent State
  • fall of 1964
  • 5 Kent State students decided to protest a war that was still several months from escalating. The Kent Committee to End the War in Vietnam engaged in peaceful picketing. In response, hostile students shot pellet guns at the anti-war students and assaulted them.

    • ]]>     2023-09-07 18:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689346840     Jackson State reed60009404 https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689347956
  • Jackson State
  • May 15, 1970
  • On May 15, 1970, the police opened fire shortly after midnight on students (and passersby) in a May 14 protest of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War at Jackson State College in Mississippi.

    • ]]>     2023-09-07 18:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689347956     Pentagon Papers reed60009404 https://padlet.com/reed60009404/76q2tyhe3rm88wn/wish/2689348684
  • Pentagon Papers
  • 1945 to 1967
  • The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam 

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