PPT-Nixon Vietnam & the Cold War World

Nixon and Nam Peace takes with North Vietnam are stalled when Nixon takes office Nixon wants Peace with Honor Vietnamization of the war replacing US troops with South Vietnamese . 1960 -. John F. Kennedy is elected president. 1963 -. Johnson becomes president & almost 16,00 U.S. Troops in Vietnam. 1964 -. Johnson elected president. 1957-. Vietcong began attacks on Diem Government. FOREIGN POLICY. Advance organizer. Richard Nixon rose through the political ranks as a staunch anti-communist; however, the policy of his predecessors brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and brought the U.S. into an expensive and increasingly unpopular war.. Overview. Pretest. Timeline. BIO’S: Ho Chi Minh & Ngo Dinh Diem. The Language of War. The First Vietnam War. Reasons for US Involvement. Exploring The Four Stages . Why did America lose?. Pictures. FOREIGN POLICY. Advance organizer. Richard Nixon rose through the political ranks as a staunch anti-communist; however, the policy of his predecessors brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and brought the U.S. into an expensive and increasingly unpopular war.. Objectives:. Identify Nixon’s key decisions and their consequences. explain the approach taken by Nixon to the cold war. . evaluate Nixon’s success’ and failures. Who was Richard Nixon?. Richard Nixon’s best known contributions to the Cold War were his roles in détente and ending the Vietnam conflict. However, he was an unlikely architect for both.. Bell Ringer. Make . a Venn diagram of the Korean War and Vietnam War. Complete the last 2 pages in the packet on the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon. Who was . Nixon. ?. Born in California in 1913. Attended Whittier College and Duke University Law School. The Vietnam War. 20 years. Five presidents. 164 billion dollars. 58,132 Americans died/2million Vietnamese. 150,000 Americans wounded. 21,000 permanently disabled. 3 million Americans served (avg. age 19). Preview:. . “Presidents from Truman to Nixon argued that communism in Southeast Asia threatened vital American interests. But it was Lyndon Johnson who began a massive bombing campaign and sent half a million American troops to intervene in Vietnam’s civil war.”. Modern American History. The Election of 1968. Richard M. Nixon [R]. Hubert Humphrey [D]. The Election of 1968. Nixon . [. R]. Humphrey [D]. Wallace [AI]. VP for Eisenhower. Aimed at “Middle America”. SWBAT: Explain Nixon’s domestic and foreign policy initiatives. Do Now. Identify examples of . both. conflict/hostility and peaceful relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Cold War. The War Develops 29.1. 2. The Main Idea. Concern about the spread of communism led the United States to become increasingly violent in Vietnam.. Reading Focus. How did Southeast Asia’s colonial history produce increased tensions in Vietnam? . /. . . Nixon relied heavily on his national security advisor, . Henry Kissinger. . Both drew two basic conclusions about Vietnam. First, they agreed that the war was not winnable. Second, they decided that the U.S. could not just “cut and run.”. Chapter 25, Section 1. Origins of the Vietnam War. In the 1800s, the French controlled Indochina– today’s Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. . Ho Chi Minh wanted to end French colonial rule starting in the late 1800s. WWII put the conflict on hold, but afterwards France tried to assert their dominance again. . /. . . Nixon relied heavily on his national security advisor, . Henry Kissinger. . Both drew two basic conclusions about Vietnam. First, they agreed that the war was not winnable. Second, they decided that the U.S. could not just “cut and run.”.