https://padlet.com/2024941/ij8ebop90490 Vietnamization, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Kent State Massacre, Pentagon Papers en-us 2018-04-05 15:39:49 UTC 2025-10-30 02:30:44 UTC hello@padlet.com 2024941 https://padlet.com/2024941/ij8ebop90490/wish/248929181 The Vietnamization plan provided for a gradual, phased withdrawal of American combat forces, combined with an expanded effort to train and equip South Vietnam to take over military responsibility for its own defense. President Nixon believed his Vietnamization strategy, which involved building up South Vietnam’s armed forces and withdrawing U.S. troops, would prepare the South Vietnamese to act in their own defense against a North Vietnamese takeover and allow the United States to leave Vietnam with its honor intact. ]]> 2018-04-05 15:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/2024941/ij8ebop90490/wish/248929181 2024941 https://padlet.com/2024941/ij8ebop90490/wish/248935502 The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a military supply route running from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam. The route sent weapons, manpower, ammunition and other supplies from communist-led North Vietnam to their supporters in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In 1965, more than 30 U.S. Air Force jets struck targets along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. Sections of the Ho Chi Minh Trail still exist today, and parts of it have been incorporated into the Ho Chi Minh Highway, a paved road that connects the north and south regions of Vietnam.]]> 2018-04-05 15:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/2024941/ij8ebop90490/wish/248935502 2024941 https://padlet.com/2024941/ij8ebop90490/wish/248939136 Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. A student-led strike forced the temporary closure of colleges and universities across the country. At the time, members of the National Guard were already on duty in the region, and thus were mobilized fairly quickly. By the time they arrived at the Kent State campus on the night of May 2nd, however, protesters had already set fire to the school’s ROTC building, and scores were watching and cheering as it burned. Historians have never reached consensus as to who exactly organized and participated in the Kent State protests—or how many of them were students at the university or anti-war activists from elsewhere.]]> 2018-04-05 16:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/2024941/ij8ebop90490/wish/248939136 2024941 https://padlet.com/2024941/ij8ebop90490/wish/249072345 The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. "By 1969, however, Ellsberg had come to believe that the war in Vietnam was unwinnable." He also believed that the information contained in the Pentagon Papers about U.S. decision-making regarding Vietnam should be more widely available to the American public. On June 30 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the government had failed to prove harm to national security, and that publication of the papers was justified under the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of the press.

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