LibGuides: Vietnam: Home

Agent Orange

Agent Orange ABC-Clio
herbicide that was used by the U.S. military
Agent Orange ABC Clio Issues
Following the end of the Vietnam War, scientists discovered that Agent Orange produces dioxins as a by-product during the production process.
IMAGE--U.S. Air Force plane sprays herbicide in Vietnam
19 million gallons were sprayed.
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
VVAW activists went on to initiate veteran "rap groups" and help gain official recognition of the health ramifications of exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange.
Operation RANCH HAND
Code name for missions involving the aerial spraying of herbicides.
Agent Orange: Haze of Deception
More than 30 years after coming home, scores of Vietnam War veterans still ask: "Why are we ill?"

Nov. 30, 1961 Defoliant Operations in Vietnam
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A memorandum issues presidential approval of defoliant operations in Vietnam.

Communist Take Over

Communist Party: evaluation of the Tet Offensive (1968)
The overall effect was to present a serious psychological impact against the United States and Southern Vietnamese.
Cambodian incursion
Knowing American intervention would be limited, the communists avoided open confrontation and quickly returned to reestablish control in eastern Cambodia after American withdrawal.
Ho Chi Minh Campaign ABC Clio
The Ho Chi Minh Campaign, an April 1975 attack on Saigon, gave the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, North Vietnam) the decisive victory.
Paris Peace Accord (1973)
Although the agreement initiated a cease-fire that began the next day, the United States did not withdraw all of its troops until April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese surrendered to North Vietnam and the city of Saigon fell to the communists.
Vietnam War
By 1969, as U.S. public opinion went increasingly against the war, U.S. policy changed to Vietnamization, and President Richard Nixon began to withdraw U.S. troops.
IMAGE--Vietnamization
Return primary responsibility for the conduct of the war to South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh Campaign
The Ho Chi Minh Campaign, an April 1975 attack on Saigon, gave the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, North Vietnam) the decisive victory it had fought so long to achieve.
Nguyen Van Thieu
Thieu had done all he could to prevent the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.
VIETNAMIZATION: CAN IT WORK?
Vietnamization makes no provision for a political accommodation between the communist and non-communist forces in
South Vietnam.
Robert McNamara
Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why.
AUDIO STREAM--Robert McNamara
McNamara later admitted tearfully that America's pursuit of the Vietnam War had been "terribly wrong.
The Real History of the Vietnam War
The conventional wisdom that prevailed in the years immediately following the fall of Saigon--and which dominates dialogue in many circles today--was that the Vietnam War was not only unnecessary, it also was unwinnable.
VIETNAM'S FORGOTTEN LESSONS
That's no way to fight a war-at least according to the lessons the American military learned in Southeast Asia a quarter century ago.
VIETNAM AFTER 25 YEARS Life and Hope, but War Scars Linger On
Part of the tragedy was that those U.S. policymakers who dogged the war, sent the poor and young into battle, never took the time to understand what it was all about. Five minutes of Vietnamese history could have taught lessons which, if learned, could have saved millions of lives.

VIETNAMIZATION
Nixon and his advisors developed a new strategy they called Vietnamization.
Nov. 3, 1969 Nixon Speech on Vietnamization
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I want to end the war to save the lives of those brave young men in Vietnam.

PTSD

Vietnam Veterans Against the War
VVAW activists went on to initiate veteran "rap groups" and help gain official recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
post-traumatic stress disorder
Anxiety disorder that develops after exposure to a traumatic event that evoked intense fear, horror, or helplessness
War & Military Mental Health: The US Psychiatric Response in the 20th Century
Before the Vietnam War, psychiatric consensus held that soldiers who recovered from an episode of mental breakdown during combat would suffer no adverse long-term consequences.

The Psychological Effects of the Vietnam War
Vietnam veterans who experience PTSD have a feeling of helplessness, worthlessness, dejection, anger, depression, insomnia, and a tendency to react to tense situations by using survival tactics.
March 24, 1973 Statement About the Vietnam Veteran
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President Richard M. Nixon announces benefits for returning veterans and touts programs designed to reintegrate Vietnam veterans into society.

Napalm

Napalm ABC-Clio
gasoline thickened to a gel
IMAGE--Napalm bombs
Napalm bombs explode on Viet Cong
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A flame-throwing tank of the U.S. First Tank Battalion
IMAGE--Villagers flee after napalm attack
Terrified children run from South Vietnamese soldiers after an aerial napalm attack

Guerrilla Warfare, Tactics for Fighting

Guerrilla Tactics
Many weapons, including booby traps and mines, were homemade in villages.
Feb. 26, 1968 VC Attack on the U.S. Embassy
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Staff Sergeant T.L. Moran interrogates a member of the Vietcong, a guerrilla-warfare organization dedicated to overthrowing the American-supported government of South Vietnam.

Vietnam General

Lessons of Vietnam
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Kissinger also notes some of the U.S. government's significant failures, including unrealistic military predictions, inconsistent political, economic and military policies and a failure to recognize "the nature of the conflict."

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