Vietnam Timeline by 2024Ellie Ludwig https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d en-us 2022-04-14 20:39:15 UTC 2025-12-26 14:44:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f412.png Harry Truman - April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144348901
- Was warned by Asia that French rule of Vietnam would lead to “bloodshed and unrest.”
-Did not share his predecessor’s anti-colonialism
-Hoped & attempted to reestablish France’s prewar economy & national pride
-Asserted that U.S. foreign policy was to assist any country whose stability is threatened by communism
-Was prompted to reexamine Vietnam in a Cold War sense due to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, plus the flow of aid from China and the Soviet Union then to the Viet Minh



]]> 2022-04-14 20:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144348901 The Truman Doctrine - March 12, 1947 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144350086 -Informally extended to become the basis of American Cold War policy throughout Europe and around the world
-Shifted American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union from an anti-fascist alliance to a policy of containment of Soviet expansion]]> 2022-04-14 20:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144350086 Dwight D. Eisenhower - January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144356858
-Refused to involve the United States in another major conflict so soon after the Korean War.
-“I am convinced that no military victory is possible in that kind of theater”
-Domino Theory - which held that if one country fell to communism then its neighbors would follow, he refused to abandon Vietnam altogether.

]]> 2022-04-14 21:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144356858 The Domino Theory - April 1954 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144361749 -The idea that the fall of Indochina to communism would lead rapidly to the collapse of other nations in Southeast Asia. 
-Eisenhower articulated it as the “falling domino” principle.]]> 2022-04-14 21:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144361749 John F. Kennedy - January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144362997 -Publicly lambasted U.S. efforts to assist the French, saying that to act “in defiance of innately nationalistic aims spells foredoomed failure.”
-Soft on communism
-Hinted to aides that he might withdraw from Vietnam following his re-election, but it’s unclear whether he would have actually done so.]]> 2022-04-14 21:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144362997 Assassination of John F. Kennedy - November 22, 1963 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144364651 - Johnson was sworn in as the new President as a result]]> 2022-04-14 21:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144364651 Lyndon B. Johnson - November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144367708 -Sent the first U.S. combat troops into battle in early 1965
-He simultaneously authorized a massive bombing campaign, codenamed Operation Rolling Thunder, that would continue unabated for years.]]> 2022-04-14 21:30:23 UTC https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144367708 Operation Rolling Thunder - March 1965 to October 1968 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144368413 -The codename for an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam]]> 2022-04-14 21:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144368413 Richard Nixon - January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144447786 -Campaigned for the White House promising to end the Vietnam War
-Gradually withdrew American troops as part of his policy of “Vietnamization” 
-Escalated the conflict in other ways
-Attempted to disrupt North Vietnamese supply lines and destroy Viet Cong camps


]]> 2022-04-15 00:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144447786 Vietnamization - 1968 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144449079 -Strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. 
-Created deep rifts in American society. 
-Nixon believed this 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. 
But the Vietnamization process was deeply flawed from the beginning.]]> 2022-04-15 00:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144449079 WORKS CITED 9960669 https://padlet.com/9960669/pz3g7usmuwf70k6d/wish/2144450227 Works Cited
History.com Editors. “Domino Theory.” HISTORY, A&E Television Networks, 24 Aug. 2018, www.history.com/topics/cold-war/domino-theory.
---. “Vietnam War Timeline.” HISTORY, A&E Television Networks, 11 Nov. 2018, www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-timeline.
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