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Did the United States win or lose the Vietnam War?

Date: January 1976 Location: White House

As you conduct your research and locate information about your individual or group, be sure you are able to do the following:
 * Describe the criticisms of American society the individual or group made __**and**__ what goals they hoped to achieve.
 * Explain the methods the person or group used to share their message. Be sure to provide examples.
 * Discuss the intent to which the goals and methods used by the individual or group were practical in this time period.
 * __Evaluate__ the successes the individual or group had in promoting their position.
 * Works Cited/Referenced
 * All of this information should be posted to your wiki.


 * against Diem's pro catholic morals
 * against Diem's policies
 * Buddhist Priests demonstrated on the law against religious flags
 * Hunger strikes and unrolled banners against law
 * demonstrated and the Vietnamese army sprayed Buddhist priests heads with chemicals therefore hospitalizing them
 * On June 11, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection in protest against Diem's policies.
 * many shootings on the priests continued after the priests started to mimick Quang Duc. They also were participating in hunger strikes.
 * Priests were not happy with Americans because one punched a American reporter in the nose for covering the ninth anniversary of Diem's rise to power
 * 15,000 priests gathered for a mass protest not effected by rain

These were practical methods because setting yourself on fire was one of the most extreme things to do to show you thought what the government was doing was wrong. They partially succeeded because after the chemical attack on the priests the Americans threatened to not help the south Vietnamese any more.

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