Vietnam+Path+To+War

=**VIETNAM - THE PATH TO WAR **=

You all know that the United States was involved in a major military conflict in Vietnam during the Cold War ... but why? What was America's "path to war"? Using the resources below and __Creating America__, your task this evening is to write a description in YOUR OWN WORDS of the causes of American involvement in Southeast Asia. Pretend you are writing it as a summary for on online encyclopedia or textbook. Your description should ...
 * be between two and four complete, well written paragraphs
 * contain the following terms - France, Ho Chi Minh, communism, Ngo Dinh Diem, military advisors, Gulf of Tonkin, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Rolling Thunder
 * be IN YOUR OWN WORDS (remember, it's easy to check this online)
 * contain two images THAT RELATE TO YOUR WRITING
 * Should end with the first Marines landing in Vietnam in 1965.

In the 1930's, Ho Chi Min led a revolt against the French government that occupied Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh was arrested, and flees to china. people say that he was the George Washington of Vietnam, the freedom fighter, he tried to gain independence for them. But he was communist. Ho Chi revolted against japan during WWII, Japan had taken them over when they took over much of the other pacific. Ho Chi gains some support in Vietnam. After WWII French Return to take back indochina. Ho Chi forms vietminh party to liberate vietnam, declare independence from France in 1945. Thus begins a 9 year war, vietminh defeated the french. Ho Chi establishes communist government in north vietnam. US is worried about containing communism in asia and europe, so the US splits vietnam temporarily by the Geneva accords. Plan to have a free elecition to unite the nation, but the south wont do it because they know that Ho Chi would win. Thus begins a civil war between north and south.