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3/26/2016

Vietnam and the Protest Movement (1960 1975)

Key Terms:

napalm a flammable petroleum jelly used in

incendiary bombs and flamethrowers

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Country Joe & the Fish

Well, come on all of you, big strong men,

Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Come on Wall Street, don't be slow,

Why man, this is war au-go-go
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of its trade,
But just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong.

And it's one, two, three,

What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on generals, let's move fast;

Your big chance has come at last.
Now you can go out and get those reds
'Cause the only good commie is the one that's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.

And it's one, two, three,

What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Student Movement
Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) founded 1960
Free Speech protests at UC
Berkeley, 1964-5
Hippie movement: free love, use
of drugs, anti-war protest
Summer of Love, 1967
months-long hippie gathering in
San Francisco, CA
Woodstock, 1969 music
festival in New York

Escalation of the Vietnam War

Napalm & Agent
Orange (an
herbicide) used for
deforestation
Draft
Almost 650,000
young men drafted
Led to draft-dodging
& student protest

Infiltration will slow; the

Communist infrastructure will
be cut up and near collapse;
the Vietnamese Government
will prove its stability, and the
Vietnamese army will show
that it can handle the
Vietcong; United States units
can begin to phase down.
- General Westmoreland,
Nov. 1967

1968
Tet Offensive: January 1968
massive attack by North
Vietnamese and National
Liberation Front (NLF/Viet Cong)
Attacks defeated by US but made
Johnson very unpopular

My Lai Massacre: US massacre

of unarmed village in 1968,
published in Time Magazine in
1969

1968
Tet Offensive: January 1968
massive attack by North
Vietnamese and National
Liberation Front (NLF/Viet Cong)
Attacks defeated by US but made
Johnson very unpopular

My Lai Massacre: US massacre

of unarmed village in 1968,
published in Time Magazine in
1969

1968
Election of 1968
Johnson decides not to
run for re-election
Robert Kennedy (anti-war,
pro-civil rights) leading
Democratic candidate
Richard Nixon nominated
by Republicans
George Wallace
(segregationist) runs as
independent

1968
Election of 1968
Johnson decides not to
run for re-election
Robert Kennedy (anti-war,
pro-civil rights) leading
Democratic candidate
Richard Nixon nominated
by Republicans
George Wallace
(segregationist) runs as
independent

1968
Assassinations
MLK (April)
Robert Kennedy (June)

1968
Democratic Convention in
Chicago
Hubert Humphrey nominated
Massive student protests lead
to police violence

Nixon wins election

Had a secret plan to end
Vietnam War

Nixon & Vietnam

De-escalation
Gradual withdrawal of US
forces
Vietnamization: training of
South Vietnamese army
Massive bombing of North
Vietnam, Cambodia

Kent State: student

protests at Kent State
University turn deadly, 4
killed by national guard

Nixon & Vietnam

Peace with Honor 1973, US made
peace with North Vietnam, which
recognized South Vietnamese government
Fall of Saigon 1975 defeat of South
Vietnam