War of the Five Presidents

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Truman

Eisenhower

Kennedy

Johnson

Nixon

FINANCIAL AID
Support the French
$23 million
35 military advisers
Military vehicles
Aid $500 million a year to the French.

FINANCIAL AID
Support the French
$1 billion in aid.
French defeat 1954.
Political support and $2 billion aid to Diem (1954-60)
1000 military advisers.

COUNTER INSURGENCY
Growing Presence
Green Berets
(Covert ops)
Strategic Hamlets
16,000 military advisors (Active role)
Doubled financial aid
Operation Ranch Hand
APC’s / helicopters.
Supports coup against Diem

ESCALATION
23,000 advisers (1964)
Operation Rolling Thunder.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
‘Boots on the Ground’ (1965)
500,000 troops by 1968

VIETMANISATION
End the War
Escalated bombing to Laos + Cambodia (Secretly)
​Paris Peace Accords, 1973