It was a theory that was use during the 1950s-80 that stated if one country was overtaken by communism than the surrounding countries would follow after in a domino effect.

Impact:

The domino effect was stated in Eisenhower's speech and it laid the US foundation in Vietnam. The US increased aid and support in the South Vietnam.

He was a Vietnames communist and revoltuionary leader. He was all the prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Impact:

He led the Viet Minh Independence movement.

It was a national independece coalition formed at Pac Bo.

Impact:

It was meant to help Vietnam gain their independence. They opposed the French and then the US. Lastly they opposed South Vietnam

Impact: Health effects such as tumors, birth defects, rashes, psychological symptoms and cancer.

Impact:  expanded American air operations

Impact: demonstrations against the war drew thousands of protesters.

left his seat as president of the Ford Motor Company to accept an invitation from President Kennedy to become U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Impact:

A key adviser in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War, McNamara developed the idea of Mutual Assured Destruction, which held that in a world in which both the US and USSR possessed enough nuclear weapons to wipe each other off the map

Authorized President Johnson to
take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. This resolution became the legal basis for the Johnson and Nixon Administrations prosecution of the Vietnam War.

Impact:

gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the
Vietnam War.

influence in the Indochina.The battle fought, was the last European state in the region.

Indochina being  the anti french resistance war.

Impact:

It cleared the 17th parallel and was no more communism in the region

a network of roads built from North Vietnam to
South Vietnam

Its Purpose?

to provide logistical support to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War

He was born on Jan.3,1901 he began a dictatorship. A staunch anti-Communist, he joined the U.S.-backed government, making himself president in 1955. He imprisoned and murdered hundreds of Buddhists, causing the U.S. to remove its support. Diem's assassination in 1963 left Vietnam vulnerable to the Communist threat from the north, eventually resulting in civil war.

Impact: Started the Civil War between the south and the north.

The news did however manipulate the coverage in order to gain support. During this war many of the stories were told, so that America looked like the heroes.

a proposed plan to end the U.S combat troops in the

Vietnam War. Also it ended the involvement of the U.S in the

Vietnam War, but also equip and train South Vietnam's forces

What was the Impact: The impact for America side of the war was

that it's troops deaths decreased dramatically and the Impact of the

South Vietnam side was that more of their own troops were getting

trained. Also President Nixon to had settled a peace with North

Vietnam with some conditions.

Saigon, capital city of South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30^th 1975 The fall of Saigon (now Ho Chin Minh City) effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War

Impact: 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.

What Happened?: A military analysis Daniel Ellsberg came to oppose the war and decided that the Pentagon Papers held so much information that the American public should know about.

Impact: allowed a younger and larger group to vote.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is located near Constitution Gardens on the National Mall and northeast of the Lincoln Memorial. It stands as a symbol of America's honor and recognition of the men and women who served and sacrificed their lives in the Vietnam War.

The Ohio National Guard killed four students and wounded nine others at a rally against the

Nixon administration’s decision to escalate the Vietnam War by invading neighboring Cambodia.