https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0 Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2018-10-30 12:33:32 UTC 2025-05-12 07:16:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298465276 A team sent by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to report on conditions in South Vietnam advised a build-up of American military, economic and technical aid in order to help Diem confront the Viet Cong threat.]]> 2018-10-30 13:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298465276 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298465618 2018-10-30 13:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298465618 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298465682 2018-10-30 13:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298465682 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298466839 2018-10-30 13:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298466839 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298467024 2018-10-30 13:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298467024 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298467192 2018-10-30 13:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/298467192 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299316857 Westmoreland pursued a policy of attrition, aiming to kill as many enemy troops as possible rather than trying to secure territory.]]> 2018-11-01 12:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299316857 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299317076 By November 1967, the number of American troops in Vietnam was approaching 500,000, and U.S. casualties had reached 15,058 killed and 109,527 wounded]]> 2018-11-01 12:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299317076 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299317499 Opponents of the war argued that civilians, not enemy combatants, were the primary victims and that the United States was supporting a corrupt dictatorship in Saigon.]]> 2018-11-01 12:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299317499 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299318471 Anti-war marches and other protests, such as the ones organized by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), attracted a widening base of support over the next three years, peaking in early 1968 after the successful Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese troops proved that war’s end was nowhere in sight.]]> 2018-11-01 12:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299318471 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299319375 President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the retaliatory bombing of military targets in North Vietnam.]]> 2018-11-01 12:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299319375 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299319760 Humphrey lost the 1968 presidential election to Richard M. Nixon, who promised in his campaign to restore “law and order”–a reference to conflict over anti-war protests as well as the rioting that followed King’s assassination in 1968–more effectively than Johnson had.]]> 2018-11-01 12:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299319760 emely_10 https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299319950 2018-11-01 12:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/emely_10/pd3npc05atq0/wish/299319950