Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why did the USA lose the Vietnam War?
- USA Tactics
- Vietnamisation 1969
- Young, inexperienced soldiers
- Average age of
soldiers 19
- Replaced every year, just as
they've got used to it
- Not used to terrain
- Bombing ineffective
against Ho Chi Minh trail
- Failure to Win Hearts and
Minds of Vietnamese
- My Lai Massacre 1968
- Zippo Raids - Search and
destroy missions
- Napalm and Agent Orange
- Killed innocent civilians
- Fundamental misunderstanding that
the Vietnamese just wanted to be
independent
- Protest in USA
- Media
- First televised war
- Report of Tet, 1968. Obvious
to public USA were losing
- Protest songs e.g Feel
Like I'm Fixing to Die and
Ohio
- Kent State Protest/Massacre
- Students
burnt draft
cards
- Veterans Against Vietnam War (VAVW)
- "Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"
- Vietcong's Guerilla Tactics
- Effective against US Soldiers
- Ho Chi Minh Trial
- Surprise ambushes
- Dressed like
peasants, so US
soldiers couldn't
differentiate
between civilians
and Vietcong