Saxon King Modern History
Containment
and Truman Dominoes and Eisenhower Non Nuclear Conflict and JFK Consolidating the Conflict and LBJ Withdrawal and Nixon Policy Changes
Containment: Stopping and holding communism from a position of strength. Truman Policy: This was a policy that stated the US would provide political, military and economic assistance for to all democratic states under threat from any/all authoritarian forces.
Dominoes!!!!!
The Theory of consecutive national Communist takeovers
Term:
1961-1963 May have heard of Him in relationship with the Cuban Missile Crisis and the JFK assassination
Why
Vietnam? Scared of a Nuclear Conflict Needed a new stage for war Had to fight Communism and the USSR
Diem:
was despised by JFK who saw him as a gangster and thug Chi Minh: Communist, Nationalist, feared for what he represented. Also feared for is abilities as a leader and what he meant for the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong
Ho
The
Infamous JFK Assassination: Before: After: Minimal Troops invested in Vietnam MASS increase in troops numbers in Indochina and JFKs Death
Term:
1963-69 LBJ was a unique individual: he has been describe as: A bully, a flatterer, a supreme negotiator, an idealist, an egomaniac and yet was insecure, all at once.
Hawks:
Men of government who held hyper-aggressive views towards the War
My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age. General Curtis Le May
Doves:
Men of government were who wanted to approach the war in a more moderate and cautious manner
LBJ
felt politically trapped by the Vietnamese conflict Too proud and also too insecure to withdraw
I guess weve got no choice, but it scares the death out of me. I think everybodys going to think were landing marines, were off to battle Lyndon Baines Johnson
LBJ
stated that he view the Communists as Bullies who if given the chance would wind up chasing you right out of your own house.
Term:1969-1974 May
know him in relation to the Watergate scandal, Kent State Massacre and Negotiations with China.
Vietnamisation:
Change to the Truman Policy to what be known as the Nixon Policy. Blamed and supported South Vietnam at the same time. Two step process Operation Phoenix Negotiations with China and The USSR
The
greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. - RICHARD NIXON,
Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1969
Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.- RICHARD NIXON, No More Vietnams
Eventual
Withdrawal of Troops Less aggressive approach to Communist regimes Forms of U.S. support to nations Commitment per President
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