Operation Rolling Thunder

The Vietnam War - Yesterday and Today (Cool Intro that i can't think of) The United States has taken place in a number of wars that had an innumerable amount of effects, both good and bad, on the history of us as a nation. One of these conflicts include the Vietnam War, taking place from 1954 through till 1975 with the North seizing control of the Southern Vietnamese capital of Saigon. ("Vietnam War History.") While at its peak over half a million US soldiers were stationed on the Vietnam soil,…

Payton Diaz One of the most controversial wars in the history of the United States is the Vietnam War. The war was originally between North and South Vietnam. But the United States soon got involved to stop the spread of communism to South Vietnam. In the beginning, people supported the war, Americans believed the United States was doing a good thing by aiding the anti-communists in South Vietnam. But as the war went on, issues like draft dodging, the misleading of the public, and an increase…

Kelsey Marren Dr. Lammers HI 103 23 November 2016 Expansion in Vietnam under Lyndon B. Johnson “I will not lose Vietnam” President Johnson said after two days of presidency. After the United States suffered a tremendous lose due to President John F. Kennedy being assassinated in 1963, the new President inherited one of the most intense battles on History, the Vietnam War. LBJ expanded the American presence in Vietnam tremendously which lead to numerous financial political problems not only…

of these soviet weapons could be eradicated if not for the fact that the USSR and the United States relations were at that time delicately balanced between uneasy peace and disaster. Davidson explains that while deciding whether or not to use ROLLING THUNDER to target areas of Soviet trade, President Johnson had to carefully consider if by targeting these Soviet supply lines he would provoke the USSR into all-out war (433). So instead of using force, the United States would cooperate on…

All post world war II presidents have had some involvement in the Vietnam conflict, but does that mean we blame them all for this failure? Does the sins of Lyndon B. Johnson equal Harry S. Truman? Of course not, each president had different levels of involvement, and such the blame should not be equally shared. Lyndon B. Johnson should be held the most responsible for the lives, and money lost followed by Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the least accountable Harry S.…

internet. It was so secret that if a soldier was killed in a bombing attack or ground attack on the trail the families were simply told that they were lost in southeast Asia, they didn’t even get to know the truth. What we did know was the rolling thunder operation which was an Ariel bombardment on Vietnam. Most didn’t know that this included the trail since it was meant to be a secret. The problem with this is that it was meant to be a gradual thing, known as gradualism. they went in small…

Johnson he either had to pull troops out of Vietnam, delay the problem with their current passive role, or create a bombing plan. In February, Johnson ordered air strikes against North Vietnam in an operation called Rolling Thunder, trying to scare them into backing down. “Yet all Operation Rolling Thunder succeeded in doing was to make the North Vietnamese even more determined to keep fighting.” (Schuman, 66). By March Johnson had officially broken his promise during his campaign by sending two…

Communist gained victory as North Vietnamese used effectual strategies and tactics employed by NVA and Vietcong. Also, the use of ineffective tactics and strategies by the South Vietnamese and USA forces impacted negatively on the civilians in Vietnam and the rise and significance of anti-war movements in the USA further contributed to the communist victory in 1975. The key reason for communist victory was their Strategies and tactics being based on the “Golden Rules” . This made them…

re-elected and Nixon announces a surprise Christmas is bombing on North Vietnam for four weeks American bombers pounded North Vietnam. Paris peace accords to end the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. American and some prisoners of war return during the Operation homecoming congress enacts war powers act over a veto by president Nixon. watergate scandal forced Nixon to resign because an oil embargo, gasoline rationing caused the scandal to escalate and costing Nixon his political support, and broke…

socio-political effects on the United States After the Assassination of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson was inaugurated as the next president of the United States. He began to escalate his bombing campaign on Vietnam, named Operation Rolling Thunder. The casualties that were resulted in this operation were as follows: thousands were dead, missing or captured, hundreds of planes shot down. On the other side there were over one hundred and eighty two thousand North Vietnamese casualties. This…