Vietnam: 1964 - 1968
Part II: Escalation, Protest, and Stalemate
Part II: Escalation, Protest, and Stalemate
Vietnam Inquiry Question: What lessons should we learn from the decades-long Vietnamese struggle for independence?
Part II → Focus Questions:
A. How did American policy and strategy change between 1964 and 1968 and what were the consequences?
B. How and why did criticism of and resistance to the Vietnam War escalate?
1963, (April 27) Bob Dylan "Masters of War"
1964, (August 4) President Johnson on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
1964, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964, Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley
1964, (December 2) Mario Savio "Sit-in Address at Sproul Hall"
1965, (January 7) Malcolm X Speech to the Militant Labor Forum
1965, (January 27) Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy "The Fork in the Road"
1965, (February 7) "William Bundy Discusses Vietnam Situation"
1965, Operation Rolling Thunder
1965, Bui Diem, In the Jaws of History
1965, Phil Ochs "I Ain't Marching Anymore"
1965, First Anti-War Teach-In
1965, (April 7) Lyndon B. Johnson "Peace Without Conquest"
1965, SDS Rally in Washington, D.C.
1965, (April 17) Paul Potter "The Incredible War"
1965, President Johnson receives conflicting assessments
1965, (July 1) George Ball "A Compromise Solution in South Viet-Nam"
1965, (July 1) Robert McNamara "Program of expanded military and political moves"
1965, (July 20) Robert McNamara "Recommendations of Additional Deployments to Vietnam"
1965, (July 28) Lyndon B. Johnson "Why We Are in Vietnam"
1965, Morley Safer's CBS News report from Cam Ne
1965, Morley Safer "Reflecting on Cam Ne"
1965, Changes to domestic policy
1966, SSG Barry Sadler "Ballad of the Green Berets"
1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers "Beyond Vietnam" address
1967, (April 4) Martin Luther King, Jr. "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"
1967, Muhammad Ali arrested for refusing to be inducted into the US Army
1967, Muhammad Ali on his decision to Refuse Induction
1967, Pete Seeger "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy"
1967, March on the Pentagon
1967, (November 1) Country Joe and the Fish "I-Feel_Like-I'm_Fixin'-to-Die Rag"
1968, Tet Offensive
1968, (February 27) Walter Cronkite "We Are Mired in Stalemate"
1968, Democrats challenge Johnson
1968, (March 18) Robert F. Kennedy "Remarks at the University of Kansas"
1968, United States v. David Paul O'Brien
1968, Democratic Convention in Chicago