Question

Use your judgment and your understanding of US history to select four events of greatest importance from the timeline. List the events below in the spaces provided, and for each, explain why they are important to understanding the Vietnam War.

Answer 1

PLATO ANSWER: Answers will vary, but all four events should be after 1969. Your reasoning and explanation of the events’ importance are as important as the event chosen. Answers may include the bombing and invasion of Cambodia, Vietnamization, the My Lai massacre, the Pentagon Papers, the end of the military draft, the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, the surrender of the South, and US evacuation.

MY ANWSER:

The four events I chose that were of great importance from the timeline given are

1969-1972: The Nixon administration removed ground troops, placing a burden on the remaining ground forces of the south. They called this strategy Vietnamization this transferred the obligation and route of the war effort to South Vietnam.

March 1969-1972: B-52 bombers advance on suspected communist base camp and supply zones in Cambodia. These bombing were kept in secrecy by Nixon and the administration since Cambodia claimed neutrality.

June 1971: the New York Times publishes a series of articles detailing leaked documents from the Defense Department about war, known as the Pentagon Papers. revealed the U.S. secretly increased its involvement with the war that was unnecessary.

April 1975: in the fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam is seized by communist forces, and the government of South of Vietnam surrenders. Marines and Air Force helicopters transport more than 1000 Americans civilians and nearly 7000 South Vietnam refugees out of Saigon in an 18 hour mass evacuation.

Instead of being United States getting further involved in the war they should have Remove themselves in went neutral. During the time of Vietnam War people of United States opposed the war because thousands of U.S. soldiers were killed in Vietnam. Another downfall was the U.S. spent 120 billion on the conflict in Vietnam from 1965-73. This expenditure led to extensive inflation, exacerbated by a universal oil crisis in 1973 and skyrocketing fuel prices

Answer 2

The correct answer to this open question es the following.

Although the question is incomplete and does not provide a list to elaborate on the timeline, we can say that the events that are important to understanding the Vietnam War are the following.

First, we have to understand what happened during the French colonization period in the region of Vietnam, which was known as French Indochina. The problems arose until the degree that the Soviet Union, China, and finally the United States had to intervene in the conflict between the two Vietnams.

During World War II, Vietnamese leader H* Chi Minh created the League for the Independence of Vietnam, and in 1945 he promulgates the independence of North Vietnam, establishing Communism.

That is when the US entered into the conflict because President Harry Truman was decided to stop the Soviet Union and its spread of Communism. The US supported South Vietnam. China and the USSR supported North Vietnam.

In 1954, the Geneva Accords established the border between North and South Vietnam. Ngo Dinh became the leader of South Vietnam. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy sent troops and helicopters to Vietnam.

In 1964, after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the US Congress authorized more powers for the US President to use the force against North Vietnam.

In 1965, President Johnson send more troops to Vietnam, but in America, people started to question the US involvement in that war. By 1967, young people, students, and citizens if the US took the streets and protest against US participation in the Vietnam War.

In January 1968, the Tet Offensive represents a major set back for the US. Richard Nixon became President of the US in November 1968. President Nixon started what was known as Vietnamization, and order some US troops stationed in Vietnam to return to the US.