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Vietnam

By Jeff Jillson Kaitlynn Goula. Vietnam. Advisory Phase. Operation Ranch hand. Ranch Hand involved spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons of defoliant and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of vegetation cover and food. . Kennedy .

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Vietnam

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  1. By Jeff Jillson KaitlynnGoula Vietnam

  2. Advisory Phase

  3. Operation Ranch hand • Ranch Hand involved spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons of defoliant and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of vegetation cover and food. 

  4. Kennedy

  5. Guerilla Warfare • War tactics

  6. Ho Chi Minh Trail •  a network of roads built from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia, to provide logistical support to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War

  7. Operation Chopper • The helicopters transported over 1,000South Vietnamese paratroopers • First time the US participated in major combat in the Vietnam war.

  8. Hanoi

  9. French leave Vietnam

  10. Richard Nixon

  11. Ike Eisenhower

  12. China and U.S.S.R.

  13. Americanization Phase

  14. Rolling Thunder • During the Vietnam War, as part of the strategic bombing campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam

  15. Anti War Rallys

  16. Martin Luther King JR • Opposed war

  17. Operation Cedar Falls • search and destroy operation

  18. Dow • Dow Chemical is a provider of plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products with a presence in about 160 countries and employing about 50,000 people worldwide

  19. Teach In’s

  20. General Westmoreland

  21. My Lai massacre

  22. Election of 1968

  23. Vietnamization phase

  24. Cambodia

  25. Ileagal Bombing of Cambodia

  26. Sihanauk • King of Cambodia

  27. Kent State • protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia • Killing 4 and injuring 9

  28. Protesting Cambodia

  29. D.C. Demonstrations

  30. Nixon visits china

  31. Nixon cuts troop levels by 70,000

  32. Single party states

  33. Jimmy carter

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