https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz Made with wonder en-us 2021-04-20 16:13:52 UTC 2021-04-22 02:16:28 UTC hello@padlet.com jacysun113 https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700227 1945-1964
- The assistance stage was the era when the US was not physically involved in the situation in Indochina
- During this period of time the US solely helped from a distance with financial help and provided military equipment for France]]> 2021-04-20 16:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700227 jacysun113 https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700230 - Truman initially was not in support of French Colonial Rule coming back in Vietnam
- However, after the situation started steering towards more Soviet expansion, the US stepped in, under Truman's rule, to help France, both financially  and with military assistance 
- The nature of involvement under Truman was that the US would give large sums of money to France, and provide them with military equipment]]> 2021-04-20 16:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700230 jacysun113 https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700232 - Eisenhower took over the assistance efforts from Truman, but had slightly different opinions and plans 
- Eisenhower was in charge when France was about to be defeated by   the Viet Minh, and France desperately wanted US military assistance, but Eisenhower declined and France went under
- For the majority of his presidency, Eisenhower kept the nature of his involvement strictly financial and materialistic, until he eventually sent in 1000 US troops to Vietnam, not fight, but to train their army
- In all, Eisenhower was still focused of the policy of containment]]> 2021-04-20 16:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700232 jacysun113 https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700235 - When Kennedy took office in 1961, his initial stance towards Vietnam was that he would act rather than react when communism caused a threat, but that approach was not widely like in the US and it proved insignificant 
- This caused Kennedy to change his approach and send more troops into Vietnam, and VP Johnson
- Due to a string of events having to do with US involvement in the overthrow of Diem, they had to support the south
- The nature of his involvement was that he controlled the military and financial help sent to Vietnam, then he was assassinated before he do do anything else and his VP LBJ took office]]> 2021-04-20 16:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700235 jacysun113 https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700238 1964-1968
- The escalation phase was when Johnson sends in the ground troops, and escalates the US involvement in Vietnam from practical and financial assistance to actual war ]]> 2021-04-20 16:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700238 jacysun113 https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700241 - Johnson took office when Kennedy was assassinated , and he was the one who took the US from assistance to full fledged war
- He had initially just sent a dew troops and bombs, but as the US got tangled further in the war, things escalated
- The US eventually had 450,000 troops fighting in Vietnam for the South
- The nature of the US's involvement was completely changed under Johnson, as well as the fact that Johnson had moved to make sure that he had complete control over what was and who was sent to war]]> 2021-04-20 16:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700241 jacysun113 https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700242 1968-1973
- Vietnamization was set in action by Nixon, and it was his goal to remove the US from the war, in order to set things back to normal in the US, such as stop protests against war action
- Nixon's goal was to remove the US from the war with a peace treaty, while the war was still in brawl action]]> 2021-04-20 16:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700242 jacysun113 https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700244 - Nixon lead Vietnamization, and spent a long time and back and forth trying to get a peace treaty negotiated out between North and South Vietnam, so that he could hand the war over to the South and withdrawal  from the war
- Nixon wanted to withdrawal  because it had become more and more obvious that this was not a war to be won by the US
- When the peace treaty’s weren't working, he moved to bombing North Vietnam’s supply trails, which got them to cooperate 
- Eventually, the US withdrew from the war and signed the Paris Peace Treaty]]> 2021-04-20 16:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jacysun113/vxnwhj3xct8dw1rz/wish/1438700244