vietnam terms by Clayton Stevens https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614 en-us 2018-04-06 18:10:52 UTC 2024-10-09 10:15:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Search and Destroy 2060780 https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/249334375 Search and Destroy was a term used during the Vietnam war to basically state]]> 2018-04-06 18:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/249334375 Pentagon Papers 2028901 https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/249340013 Pentagon Papers | 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—came to oppose the war, and decided that the information contained in the Pentagon Papers should be available to the American public. In 1967, at the request of U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, a team of analysts working for the Department of Defense prepared a highly classified study of the U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II until the present day. ]]> 2018-04-06 18:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/249340013 Vietnam Cong/National Liberation Front vs ARVN 2118061 https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/250781145 -People’s Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF) was the army of Vietcong 
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam was made from the french to fight in the war against the against the Communist forces led by Ho Chi Minh.


]]> 2018-04-11 15:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/250781145 Veitnamization 2118061 https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/250795297 The Policy where the US was supposed to gradually pull out American forces and train the south Vietnamese soldiers better so we could leave the rest of the war to the South Vietnamese government. But when Nixon was supposed to be lessinging US support he set up a secret attack on Cambodia a country that was neutral so they could put more pressure on the North. Nixon continued to pull out American troops until January 1973 they decided to make a peace agreement.  ]]> 2018-04-11 16:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/250795297 Kent State Shooting 2118061 https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/250799903 Students were protesting to stop the war efforts in Vietnam so four members of the Ohio National Guard decided to open fire on the crowd of protesters. Four people were killed and nine were injured. Students then started to strike causing the temporary closure of all universities across the country.]]> 2018-04-11 16:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/250799903 Paris Peace Accords 2118061 https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/250804533 In January of 1973 the Paris Peace Accord was signed asking for a ceasefire, all American troop will be removed within 60 days, all American prisoners be freed, and North Vietnam has to recognize the legitimacy of the South's government. In 1975 the North broke the treaty and overthrew the South to rule them under Communism.]]> 2018-04-11 16:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/250804533 agent orange 2028901 https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/260991480 in all, American forces used more than 20 million gallons of herbicides in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia during the years of Operation Ranch Hand. Herbicides were also sprayed from trucks and hand-sprayers around U.S. military bases.

Some military personnel during the Vietnam War era joked that “Only you can prevent a forest,” a twist on the U.S. Forest Service’s popular fire-fighting campaign featuring Smokey the Bear.]]> 2018-05-15 19:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/260991480 my lai massacure 2028901 https://padlet.com/2028901/ogk1fduvr614/wish/260994599 Quang Ngai province was therefore a frequent target of U.S. and South Vietnamese bombing attacks, and the entire region was heavily strafed with Agent Orange, the deadly herbicide.

In March 1968, Charlie Company—part of the Americal Division’s 11th Infantry Brigade—received word that VC guerrillas had taken control of the neighboring village of Son My. Charlie Company was sent to the area on March 16 for a search-and-destroy mission.


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