https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c Lukas, Rob, Joey, and Reza en-us 2018-04-06 18:31:32 UTC 2018-04-10 23:50:22 UTC hello@padlet.com 2011583 https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/249336666 In the Vietnam war there were many battles not for land but for killing as many viet Kong as possible just so we have a chance to win the war in which we did win.]]> 2018-04-06 18:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/249336666 21557441 https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/249340251 -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. As the Vietnam War dragged on, with more than 500,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam by 1968, military analyst Daniel Ellsberg--who had worked on the study.]]> 2018-04-06 18:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/249340251 21557441 https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/249341454 Militarily, Tet was decidedly an Allied victory, but psychologically and politically, it was a disaster. The offensive was a crushing military defeat for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, but the size and scope of the communist attacks had caught the American and South Vietnamese allies completely by surprise.
North Vietnam achieved a strategic victory with the Tet Offensive, as the attacks marked a turning point in the Vietnam War and the beginning of the slow, painful American withdrawal from the region.]]> 2018-04-06 18:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/249341454 2105936 https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/249341530 The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a logistical system ]]> 2018-04-06 18:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/249341530 2014715 https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/249342025 "More than 500 people were slaughtered in the My Lai massacre, including young girls and women who were raped and mutilated before being killed. U.S. Army officers covered up the carnage for a year before it was reported in the American press, sparking a firestorm of international outrage. The brutality of the My Lai killings and the official cover-up fueled anti-war sentiment and further divided the United States over the Vietnam War” 

]]> 2018-04-06 18:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/249342025 2014715 https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/250515376 Vietnamization was a strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. 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.

]]> 2018-04-10 23:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/250515376 2014715 https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/250517975 Agent Orange was a powerful herbicide used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops.]]> 2018-04-10 23:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/2105936/j4i6v9h9uw0c/wish/250517975