Unit+Eight

Vietnam War Timeline1954 1959 1964 1966 1968 1975
 * Vietnam War Begins
 * National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) created in Vietnam
 * United States bombs North Vietnam for the first time
 * American combat troops sent to Vietnam
 * Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds hearings on Vietnam
 * Viet Cong launches the Tet offensive
 * Vietnam War ends

= =Where Historians Disagree on the Vietnam War (Opinions)= In my opinion, the Vietnam War was a next to pointless battle fought as a result of the Americans fear of the spread of communism. Multiple lives were lost and irrevocable damage was caused to many nations as a result of the dare I say pointless fighting. I feel as though the issue that occurred in South Vietnam was not as much an American issue as it resulted to become-- I feel as though the Americans should have intervened in the conflict between North and South Vietnam to a certain extent contributing aid in the forms of money and border control rather than in full blown military aid under the United States. All in all, the North ended up taking over the South regardless of the Americans interference and actions, therefore, ithe American intervention was a waste of American efforts and lives.


 * Devon:** Similar to my answers, however added that it was in her opinion one of the most unpopular wars in America.

=Movie Clip: Why Viet-nam?=
 * commited to helping a free people maintain there soverity -- that is why
 * agression unchallenge is agression unleashed
 * signed SEATO to protect south asian governments
 * stop the spread of communism


 * The New Left**- A political movement originatiing in the United States in the 1960s, especially among college students, marked by advocacy of radical changes in government, polictics, and society.
 * Counter Culture--**A new culture created during the Vietnam War as a method of protest. The culture was started in the 1960; it was symbolized by drugs, sex, and antiwar protest. These people who were adapted to the new culture were known as Hippies.
 * [[image:csp_savio-rally.jpg width="293" height="215" caption="The above image demosntrates the rebellious and radical free speech advocacy and protest by college students and the younger generation."]] ||
 * The above image demosntrates the rebellious and radical free speech advocacy and protest by college students and the younger generation. ||
 * [[image:ELT200710050854160623294.jpg caption="The young peoples need for "free speech", and the want for the right to express thereselves at free will."]] ||
 * The young peoples need for "free speech", and the want for the right to express thereselves at free will. ||




 * **Feminism--** advocating of equal rights for women; argues against the supposed social and legal restirctions on women
 * **Womens Liberation--** a feminist movement that consited of a serious of campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, voting rights, sexual harassment, and sexual violence.
 * **Roe V. Wade**-- a 1972 Supreme Court case that stood as a landmark case decided by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion, is one of the most controversial and politically significant cases in U.S. Supreme Court history; right to privacy