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Ch. 38 Notes Part 3

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all right as you can see here and I start talking about Vietnam very clearly and very North Vietnam his army is called Viet KAIT8 is deviant man hoochie coochie man army men now we obviously are supporting the staff we are supporting this out but there are going to be Communists in the people that are sympathetic to North Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh those people in the south that support communism are called deviant Viet Cong. Very important to understand that the Vietcong were in South Vietnam very important to understand something to talk about Gulf of Tonkin right up here as you can very clearly see is the Gulf of Tonkin the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 and 1964 we're going to have an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin the 1964 winter rating some rays along the North Vietnamese and all of our ships sign of the pond by the North Vietnamese asthmatics was fired upon by the North Vietnamese and Lee Return fire let me tell you a secret several years down the road it's going to come out all made up we were not fired on first talk about the American public and so President Johnson's going to go to Congress and say we need to take out the North and Congress in 1964 passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution sometimes referred to as a chunk in Gulf resolution resolution basically how many do you do whatever it takes stop the Communist in Southeast Asia whatever you need to do you stop the Communists in South Eastern Asia so they gave him a blank check they will regret this Congress will pull a power back in 1973 with the War Powers Act but it'll take a little bit of time let's go to 65 the next year in Vietnam the Viet Cong in the South are going to attack and America and so the United States government we are if we will retaliate we will start round-the-clock bombing of North Vietnam Rolling Thunder Operation Rolling Thunder Johnson combat troops after and we start bombing North Vietnam. This is going to be in March of 1965 Operation Rolling Thunder Vietnam is a policy of Malaysian Jonathan is going to make a policy of escalation is every time they do something we're going to do something more if they do something up and the goal here is to drive the enemy to defeat that we will always one of them until they stop put on TV can you see the body can you see how many soldiers are true American flag and a credibility gap widens what people believe that the government not for The credibility gap is by 1968 we will have to make it over half a million troops to Vietnam troops to Vietnam presidential campaign in 1968 is going to be in 1967 so I'm going to circle back to that alright send a $0.10 is going to be in January of 1968 what is the Vietnamese during the Tet holiday so that they can take time to celebrate the holiday and to have proper burials and funerals for their dead during ceasefire the Viet Cong attacked they attacked so I can the caskets were done and stuff like that so that Goodwill backpacks with the United States will kill more give me the military this was a victory for the United States like we answered that sounds like obviously our policy of escalation isn't because every time we act like something there they are so the enemy is coming right back at us and show it show the American people that this is never going to end up just going to continue with no end in sight this strategy is because it's not going to work because of a text someone is going to challenge LBJ for the Democratic nomination are you don't do that you don't challenge president who can run again challenge their their candidate for the next election an anti-war Eugene McCarthy is going to challenge it's going to challenge LBJ for

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