1. Vietnam Strategies, Successes, Struggles

2. Objectives Techniques and Strategies use by U.S. Ways the U.S. was successful Ways the U.S. struggled

3. Saigon 1968 Write a Caption that sells newspapers

4. Situation in 1965 Gulf of Tonkin – 1964 Johnson ramps up military presence What was it like in Vietnam?

5. Ho Chi Minh Trail

6. Strategies Search and Destroy Special Forces Operation Rolling Thunder

7. Operation Rolling Thunder Intense bombing campaign – 3 years Goal: Apply so much force that they have to surrender 864,000 tons of bombs in 44 months 90,000 Casualties – 72K civilians

8. Operation Rolling Thunder Failure? North Vietnamese morale boosted “The Americans thought that the more bombs they dropped, the quicker we would fall to our knees and surrender. But the bombs heightened rather than dampened our spirit.” – NV Civilian

9. Tet Offensive Tet is the Lunar New Year Both sides 3 day cease fire January of 1968 – General Giap

10. Tet Offensive January 30th, 1968 – Midnight Coordinated North Vietnamese attack around South Vietnam Attack on U.S. Embassy in Saigon 45,000 Viet Cong Killed 1,000 U.S. Killed

11. Tet Offensive Why is this not a success? Political disaster in U.S. Image of dead Viet Cong in Embassy How did such a weak army get so close