{"id":3046,"date":"2014-06-09T22:06:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2014-04-21T22:06:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T19:06:52","slug":"military-causes-for-the-us-defeat-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/military-causes-for-the-us-defeat-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Military causes for the US defeat in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lbj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3044\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lbj.jpg\" alt=\"lbj\" width=\"500\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lbj.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lbj-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lbj-405x132.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #3b6cc3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/igcse\/cuba_vietnam\/2_VIETNAM\/3_Reasons_for_defeat-Military_Vietnam-DONE\/1_Military_Factors.docx\">Military causes for the US defeat in Vietnam<br \/>\n<\/a>In response to the growing involvement of the USA in Vietnam, the Vietcong began a highly effective campaign against the North. Students learn about this topic by using two video clips:<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #3b6cc3;\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Wwi83p\">Video Clip 1<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3b6cc3;\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/avjxrh\">Video Clip 2<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li>Economically, they secured aid from China and the USSR<\/li>\n<li>Strategically, they poured into North Vietnam via the &#8216;Ho Chi Minh Trail&#8217; &#8211; a 1000 mile route along the border with Laos with heavy jungle coverage so that detection from the air was very difficult.<\/li>\n<li>Socially, they cleverly worked with North Vietnamese peasants there on their farms in an ingenious &#8216;hearts and minds&#8217; policy designed to build up popular support for the communist cause in the south.<\/li>\n<li>Militarily, they adopted &#8216;guerilla&#8217; (&#8216;hit and run&#8217;) tactics against enemy forces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military causes for the US defeat in Vietnam In response to the growing involvement of the USA in Vietnam, the Vietcong began a highly effective campaign against the North. Students learn about this topic by using two video clips: Video Clip 1\u00a0|\u00a0Video Clip 2 Economically, they secured aid from China and the USSR Strategically, they&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/military-causes-for-the-us-defeat-in-vietnam\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-N8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}