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Mind Map by Millie Berrett, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Millie Berrett
about 10 years ago
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American Strategy and
Tactics-Vietnam War
- Aerial Bombing
- OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER
- Regular air attacks on North Vietnam
- Dropped bombs on key
positions in order to
cripple North Vietnam's
economy
- Make it difficult for supplies to
reach the Viet Cong
- Lasted from March
1965-November 1968
- Only intended to last 8
weeks but lasted a total of 3
years
- 1 million tons of bombs
were dropped
- US hoped that operation Rolling
Thunder might halt the flow of Northern
troops into the South
- Regular air attacks on North Vietnam
- PROBLEMS
- Not very accurate
- Sometimes Us troops ended up getting bombed
- Civilans were often hurt as well as
enemy troops
- Air strikes were called to places where there may or
may not be enemy troops so therefore it may have
been a waste of time and resources
- Difficult to get the bombs
to hit the target directly
- Not very accurate
- OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER
- Napalm
- Bombs that when in contact with the ground released
flaming petroleum jelly
- Like a burning shower
- Stuck to anything: Houses, forest, human skin
- Sprayed from US planes and river boats
- 400,000 tons of napalm was dropped by the
US on to suspected enemy targets
- Bombs that when in contact with the ground released
flaming petroleum jelly
- Defoliants
- Destroyed plants
- US had problems finding out
where the Ho Chi Minh trail was
- Defoliants were sprayed over suspected parts of the traiil
- By destroying the plants it made it easier to
see supplies being moved
- Over 4 million Vietnamese civilians were exposed to
the poisonous gasses
- Over 400,00 deaths related to Agent orange
- 500,00 children born with birth defects linked to the acids
- Got into water supplies
- 77 million litres of defoliant sprayed over vietnam
- Best defoliant known as Agent Orange
- Destroyed plants
- Search and Destroy
- Idea to find the Viet Cong in the Jungle and in villages
- Began in 1965
- Viet Cong disguised as civilians
- Made it hard for US to tell the difference between
peasants and the Viet Cong
- Made it hard for US to tell the difference between
peasants and the Viet Cong
- Mai Lai masscre
- March 16th 1968
- Fired at civilians in the Village
- harmless people injured and killed
- Many men were at work so not affecteed
- March 16th 1968
- Zippo raids
- burnt down huts
- burnt down huts
- Unsuccessful
- made the Vietnamese hate the Americans more
- More Viet Cong Support
- More Viet Cong Support
- Idea to find the Viet Cong in the Jungle and in villages
- Strategies
- Strategic Hamlets were set up in 1962
- Peasants hated this idea and many joined the Viet Cong
- US moved villagers away from Viet Cong
- Peasants hated this idea and many joined the Viet Cong
- Idea was to isolate the Viet Cong from Villages
- Blockaded ports to stop supplies
- Bombarded positions where aircraft carriers were
- Pineapple Bombs dropped on Villages creating pressure in hospitals
- Strategic Hamlets were set up in 1962
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