https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58 By: Jackie, Jennifer, Blake P5 en-us 2018-04-06 18:15:38 UTC 2018-04-10 23:21:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Brightnessdown.png 2027282 https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249335631 The Operation Rolling Thunder was when a U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. The U.S attacked North Vietnam with an intent to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam. Overall, America was the first to initiate the Operation Rolling Thunder. ]]> 2018-04-06 18:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249335631 2042299 https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249336490 Was a strategy that reduced American involvement with the Vietnam war by moving the responsibilities to the South of Vietnam. This is significant because it reduced the number of US combat troops through a program of expanding and equipping the South Vietnam forces.  However, this plan was deeply flawed from the beginning.]]> 2018-04-06 18:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249336490 2042299 https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249337588 4 Kent state University students were killed and 9 people were injured on May 4, 1970. Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. General Canterbury ordered his men to load their weapons, and to fire tear gas into the crowd. 70 shots were fired in 13 seconds. This event is important because it shows how people felt about the Cambodian invasion, and they didn’t like it at all so this was their way of showing protest against it. ]]> 2018-04-06 18:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249337588 2027282 https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249338150 The Ho Chi Minh Trail was an elaborate system of mountain and jungle paths and trails used by North Vietnam to infiltrate troops and supplies into South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during the Vietnam War. It was first put into operation in the beginning of 1959 with an intent to reunite North and South Vietnam.]]> 2018-04-06 18:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249338150 2042299 https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249338496 Paris Peace Accords was an agreement between both North and South Vietnam and the United States to end the Vietnam war. The United States agreed to the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and advisers and the North Vietnamese agreed to release all U.S. and other prisoners of war. It was signed on January 27, 1973. Both sides agreed to the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Laos and Cambodia.]]> 2018-04-06 18:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249338496 2027282 https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249339688 The Search & Destroy mission was an integral part of General William Westmoreland’s strategy to destroy the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. It ideally suited to fight against the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army. There was no distinction between “Search and Destroy” and “Clear and Hold” missions.

]]> 2018-04-06 18:45:08 UTC https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249339688 2024611 https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249632655 The Pentagon Papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg to the New York Times. Daniel released these papers because he felt it was necessary for the public to be able to see what was really happening in Vietnam Daniel released these papers ]]> 2018-04-09 03:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249632655 2024611 https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249640154 The Tet Offensive officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and the NLF, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam that took place in over 100 cities.]]> 2018-04-09 04:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249640154 2024611 https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249642650 The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed civilians by U.S troops in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. Between 347 and 504 unarmed people were massacred by the U.S Army soilders from company C ]]> 2018-04-09 04:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/249642650 2027282 https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/250513944 The National Liberation Front (NLF), was designed to replicate the success of the Viet Minh, and the umbrella nationalist organization that successfully liberated Vietnam from French colonial rule. Also, the NLF was dominated by the Lao Dong Party Central Committee (North Vietnamese Communist Party) and served as the North’s shadow government in South Vietnam. ]]> 2018-04-10 23:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/2027282/q4qaq84zje58/wish/250513944