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Vietnam War

Vietnam War. “A Challenging Task”.

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Vietnam War

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  1. Vietnam War “A Challenging Task”

  2. In Europe, a woman was near death from cancer. One drug might save her, a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The druggist was charging $2,000, ten times what the drug cost him to make. The sick woman’s husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said, “No.” The husband got desperate and broke into the man’s store to steal the drug for his wife. Should the husband have done that? Why?

  3. With a friend… • Discuss the toughest thing you have ever had to do.

  4. Today is about CHALLENGES!! • In Vietnam…

  5. Challenges of Fighting in Vietnam

  6. Geographic Difficulties • Hot / humid / rain / bugs / disease • Tropical Vegetation • Agent Orange • Defoliant • Napalm http://www1.va.gov/Agentorange/

  7. American Difficulties • Military might / strategy and chemicals were not effectiveagainst Vietcong’s guerilla warfare • Tunnels • Land mines • Booby traps • Trip wires • Identifying the enemy • Vietcong = • farmers by day, fighters by night

  8. American Strategy in Vietnam Air Ground Pacification

  9. The Air War 1965-1968 • “Operation Rolling Thunder” • Sustained bombing of north • Ho Chi Minh trail (Cambodia too) • Done because ARVN were ineffective • Overall not effective

  10. The Ground War 1965 - 1968 • Troops delivered by helicopter • Search and destroy • War of attrition* • *Overwhelming US fire power / small role of South Vietnamese • US strategy pushed many towards Viet Cong

  11. Fighting in Vietnam

  12. Pacification: the “other war” • To promote security and stability • Economic development • Cut off Viet Cong influence • Ex: Strategic Hamlet Program • Ineffective because: • US focused on larger war • US air strikes destroyed efforts

  13. Challenges on the Home Front *Why did the war have such an effect on the home front? Standard # 4 – Explain and provide examples of how the Vietnam War affected the home front, politically, economically and socially.

  14. Home Front Difficulties • Why the strong reaction? • Increasingly negative media: “Living Room War” • Cost! • Credibility gap • Govt vs. media coverage • Govt cover-up / leadership? • Events in Vietnam… • Draft was unfair

  15. Draft Resistance /Avoidance

  16. The Draft – Class Bias “One had to be poor, dumb, crazy, unlucky or some mixture of each to wind up in Vietnam” “In practice, the generous deferment system worked in favor of young men of means” Source: David Steigerwald, The Sixties and the End of Modern America, 116 “Avoiding Vietnam became a generation-wide preoccupation” Source: Lawrence Baskir and William Strauss, Chance and Circumstance

  17. Avoiding the Draft Totally or Getting a Safer Position in the War Deferments Other Service – oriented -Reserves -National Guard -Coast Guard -Enlistment • College deferment • Defense-related work • Husbands, fathers • Medical excuses • Religious deferments 8,769,000 were given permanent deferments

  18. Draft Classification

  19. Bad Grades and……….

  20. Their Results

  21. Famous Americans and the Draft System A C B E D

  22. The Lottery

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