{"id":5024,"date":"2021-04-13T03:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T03:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?page_id=5024"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:27:04","slug":"vietnam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Why did US involvement in the Vietnam War become so controversial?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Brands, Chapter 6:\u00a0 Paved with Good Intentions (1965-68)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>What Asian Boys Ought to be Doing (pp. 133-38)<\/li>\n<li>A New War (pp. 138-42)<\/li>\n<li>Into the Jungle (pp. 143-45)<\/li>\n<li>Summer of Love (pp. 146-48)<\/li>\n<li>Summer of Violence (pp. 148-52)<\/li>\n<li>Hey, Hey, LBJ &#8230; (pp. 152-155)<\/li>\n<li>The Handwriting on the Embassy Wall (pp. 155-58)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Timeline<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Nov. 1963 \/\/ Assassinations of Diem and JFK<\/li>\n<li>Summer 1964 \/\/ Great Society begins (May)\n<ul>\n<li>Civil Rights (1964) and Voting Rights (1965)<\/li>\n<li>War on Poverty programs (1964)<\/li>\n<li>Elementary and Secondary Education (1965)<\/li>\n<li>Higher Education (1965)<\/li>\n<li>Immigration Reform (1965)<\/li>\n<li>Medicare and Medicaid (1965)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Summer 1964 \/\/ Gulf of Tonkin (August)<\/li>\n<li>November 1964 \/\/ LBJ elected in landslide\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingroomcandidate.org\/commercials\/1964\">See the notorious 1964 \u201cDaisy Girl\u201d campaign commercial<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>1965 \/\/ Vietnam escalation begins\n<ul>\n<li>Pleiku attack (Feb)<\/li>\n<li>Operation Rolling Thunder (March)<\/li>\n<li>Marine reinforce Da Nang (March)<\/li>\n<li>Internal debate over escalation (July)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>1965 \/\/ Watts race riot in LA<\/li>\n<li>1966 \/\/ Fulbright (D-AR) senate hearings<\/li>\n<li>1967 \/\/ Student anti-war protests &amp; race riots in Detroit, Newark, 100 cities<\/li>\n<li>1967 \/\/ Hippie &#8220;human be-in&#8221; and summer of love<\/li>\n<li>1968 \/\/ Tet Offensive (January) &amp; LBJ withdrawal (March)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"post-content entry-content\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Perhaps the most famous (or infamous) ad in the history of modern presidential campaigns appeared as a paid advertisement on TV only once \u2013the so-called \u201cDaisy ad\u201d from 1964. Students should be able to explain what this ad was about, and why it was so powerful and controversial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingroomcandidate.org\/commercials\/1964\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-419\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-01-at-12.35.38-PM.png\" alt=\"1964 ad\" width=\"880\" height=\"798\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2014\/09\/07\/daisy-girl-political-ad-still-haunting-50-years-later\/15246667\/\">Find out more about the &#8220;Daisy Girl,&#8221; (<strong>Monique Corzilius)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/video\/2016\/10\/clinton-ad-daisy-061108\">See Hilary Clinton&#8217;s 2016 update of the Daisy Girl ad<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"gallery-1\" class=\"gallery galleryid-5011 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large\">\n<dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon landscape\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/1960s\/screen-shot-2021-04-06-at-7-34-19-am\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-06-at-7.34.19-AM-1024x678.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-06-at-7.34.19-AM-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-06-at-7.34.19-AM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-06-at-7.34.19-AM-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-06-at-7.34.19-AM-453x300.png 453w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-06-at-7.34.19-AM.png 1148w\" alt=\"LBJ\" width=\"940\" height=\"622\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5016\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd id=\"gallery-1-5016\" class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">MLK and LBJ<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon portrait\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/1960s\/screen-shot-2021-04-06-at-7-34-05-am\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-06-at-7.34.05-AM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-06-at-7.34.05-AM.png 654w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-06-at-7.34.05-AM-259x300.png 259w\" alt=\"LBJ and Russell\" width=\"654\" height=\"758\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5018\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd id=\"gallery-1-5018\" class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">LBJ and Richard Russell<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Tet Offensive<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was amazed how synchronized these fireworks happened in every district at that moment. At that time, I couldn\u2019t believe that our comrades were literally everywhere in the city.\u201d &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2022\/04\/21\/the-1968-tet-offensive\/\">Capt. Minh, North Vietnamese Army (NVA)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are video clips of Walter Cronkite&#8217;s original February 27, 1968 CBS Evening News Broadcast on the Tet Offensive, illustrating a turning point in the &#8220;living room war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dn2RjahTi3M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNow remembering the war, we usually blamed Americans for their imperialism. But many of us have forgotten how we, ourselves, did horrible things to our own people\u201d &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2022\/04\/21\/the-1968-tet-offensive\/\">Capt. Minh<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-10.16.53\u202fAM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7582\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-10.16.53\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1238\" height=\"1004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-10.16.53\u202fAM.png 1238w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-10.16.53\u202fAM-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-10.16.53\u202fAM-1024x830.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-10.16.53\u202fAM-768x623.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-10.16.53\u202fAM-900x730.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1238px) 100vw, 1238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did US involvement in the Vietnam War become so controversial? 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