... events. They want to convey their feelings into words. The Vietnam War made people write sad, cringe-worthy, and sometimes scary things. The Vietnam War started in 1985, when Northern Vietnam began attacking Southern Vietnam over government issues. They had just become independent, and Northern Vietnam wanted to be a communist state. Southern Vietnam didn't really like that, thus a civil war started. Because the United States was and still is an anti-communist ... people, like "Song of Napalm", people took some of their experiences and it is almost like it haunts them and they cannot ge...

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... freeing slaves. This purely metaphorical circumstance is almost parallel to the very real events involving America in Vietnam from 1956-1975. The longest war in American history, (besides the Iraq War), and probably one of the most controversial events in American history as a whole, the Vietnam war divided our country and resulted in over 58,000 American causalities. The events of the Vietnam War expose a side of American history that is, put bluntly, quite ... unpleasant to look at considering the death and destruction left in the wake of our actions in Vietnam. The unnecessary and ex...

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... fought against each other because they knew the outcome would be to devastating but used allied countries to fight between themselves, for example; The Vietnam War. Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given control of the Southern Vietnam while the Chinese were given the Northern Vietnam. The Chinese pulled out from North Vietnam and the French now wanted to take the North Vietnam and quickly were defeated in 1946 ... . In 1954 the French was eliminated for good in Vietnam. The World's powers sat a Geneva Conference to decide the state of Viet...

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... are able to live rather peacefully, compared to some of their fellow GIs. However, no veteran can forget everything that happened to him during the war, no matter how hard the individual might want to forget. It is impossible for the Vietnam War veteran to say that the war had no effect on his life. All veterans went through completely different situations, and no soldier had all of ... blind to see and accept it when it is not others fault. The people of this nation are the people who are truly at fault, and it is its own worst enemy, for the Veterans of the Vietnam War did little wron...

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... were unable to undertake more than guerrilla operations. By the end of 1949, the situation had radically changed with the success of the Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) against the Nationalist Chinese. The PLA controlled the border with Vietnam, contact was made with the Viet Minh and the way was open for large scale support. In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. French troops were concentrated in fortresses ... in North Vietnam fighting a static war. During this year the Viet Minh swept along the frontier road with ... ...

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... improve its defense. Australia eventually acted in response by sending 30 military advisers to Vietnam, their arrival in South Vietnam between July and August 1962 was the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. The main reason for Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War was to bring to an end to communism. Communism, also known as the Red Menace is a political and economic theory in which a country's wealth and resources ... of Australian and New Zealand and United States (ANZUS) which tied America into the defense of Australia. Since ANZUS had tied Australia and th...

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... were unable to undertake more than guerrilla operations. By the end of 1949, the situation had radically changed with the success of the Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) against the Nationalist Chinese. The PLA controlled the border with Vietnam, contact was made with the Viet Minh and the way was open for large scale support. In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. French troops were concentrated in fortresses ... in North Vietnam fighting a static war. During this year the Viet Minh swept along the frontier road with ... ...

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... influenced to a capitalistic democracy from all of the United States, which was aiding it in the war effort. Northern Vietnam was much the opposite. They already had a one party dictatorship in place and favored a communistic one because of the influence of their supporters. The Vietnam War was mainly a child of the cold war between Russia and America. Northern Vietnam was receiving large benefits from the Soviet Union. They shipped guns, ammunition, money, food ... supplies, tanks, planes and contributing man 4 power. Southern Vietnam was being shipped the same from the United States, ...

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The Vietnam War was by far the most convulsive and traumatic of America's three wars in Asia in the 50 years since Pearl Harbor. It set the U.S. economy on a downward spiral. It left America's foreign policy at least temporarily in disarray, discrediting the postwar policy of containment and undermining the consensus that supported it. It divided the American people as no other event since their own Civil War a century earlier. One ... , backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. The struggle widened into a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam and ...

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... of DienbienPhu. France's efforts failed in 1954, when France lost in the Battle of DienbienPhu. Finally, the Vietminh succeeded in expelled France from their country. Then, with the signing of the Geneva Agreements, the first Indochina war came to an end. After the Geneva Accords, the U.S started to become involved in Vietnam directly. The United States sent more money in aid and little by little commenced to send troops in ... Vietnam. The United States intervened in Vietnam from 1945 to 1954, in order to contain communism in Southeast Asia ... ...

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... been more concerned about its reputation among its own citizens rather than the rest of the world's opinion. The only war was not being fought in Vietnam but back in the United States as well. The protesting began towards the end of the war but in the civilians opinion it was never too late to start. The antiwar movement had about 500,000 participants (Tune-in, urn-on ... and drop out packet p. 2). Many protests were organized by National Mobilization against the War. Former Vietnam veterans even supported to end the war. The veterans established a group known as the Vietnam Veterans aga...

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... always defended themselves from attacks which is the reason for so many problems for the United States in Vietnam. The Vietnam War started with the formation of the Vietminh to fight off the controlling French already in Vietnam. The defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu caused humiliation on the French part and the splitting of Vietnam (Communist North Vietnam and not yet established South Vietnam). In order to stop the "falling dominoes" (a theory that a communist country ... will cause others to become communist as well), the Eisenhower quickly ... ...

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... As a result, New Zealand engaged in a close defence relationship with the US. This coalition tied New Zealand to America and therefore when the US wanted a favour, New Zealand was expected to reciprocate and offer its support; case in point the Vietnam war. Another reason New Zealand felt obliged to assist the US in Vietnam was the ANZUS treaty. This agreement is identified as a "regional defensive pact in ... which Australia, New Zealand, and the US agreed to act to meet a common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes". Basically if ... their willingness to play their...

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... . After many years of political disagreement, a civil war broke out. The North (the communist Vietcong) and the South (the capitalist French and USA). 1965. With Australia allied to America, it began sending in conscripts (young men forced to join the armed services) and thousands of troops to Saigon to assist the U.S.A. The Australian Government setup a propaganda campaign that the Vietnam war was a simple struggle between freedom and communism, and that free ... nations had to stop communism from spreading around the world. But this was not the first time the Australian Army had been i...

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... people a peace treaty and an ending to the Vietnam situation. The public began questioning the reasoning behind U.S. involvement. They tired of the war, and they tired of lives being lost for reasons they could not determine. The government was not truthful to the people about the circumstances for American forces in Vietnam. This turned American support away from Vietnam. The Untied States dragged through the Vietnam War with no accomplishments. Troops were continuing to be ... sent over, and nothing was accomplished. They entered the war after breaking a treaty by stopping the electio...

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... appealing to the American population. The media showed everyone how the troops were inhumane and oblivious to the differences between the civilians and the NFL. The sickened public were appalled at these sights and stories and so a growing youth movement, among others started the protesting against Vietnam. The population towards the end of the sixties started to become pacifists or at least disagreed with the Vietnam War. The whole country had in the end become "war weary". People ... were unwilling to fight and tore up their draft papers, support for the war was diminishing and people...

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... realising that this had to stop and stop now! It seemed the more the media showed the more the Australian public wanted the war to stop and their soldier's home. In 1970: Anti-Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Begun In May the first of three moratoriums was held to protest against Australia's continuing participation in the Vietnam War and against conscription. The May moratorium was followed by one in September 1970 and another in ... June 1971. The Moratorium campaigns were different from other anti-Vietnam and peace movements of the years between 1965 and 1970. The moratoriums were nationw...

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... a nationalist through thick and thin, and seized the opportunity to bring his country, Vietnam, freedom at once. Ho Chi Minh nationalistic views for Vietnam and for the Viet Minh were not ready for action. Ho's nationalism came in effect when he announced the Democratic Republic of Vietnam which lead to war with France because they would not led Vietnam become free. Ho Chi Minh nationalism was present ... after France ended the fighting with Vietman, Vietnam gained their independence from France but Ho was ... not finished. Vietnam was to split into two with Ho ruling the North. But Ho...

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... it will have in their history. How future people will read and talk about it. As was in Vietnam, the importance is not seen until all is done. I find it good to acknowledge the event that took place during the Vietnam War. Although many say it was a war everyone lost, it is still a significant event in American history. America since its first years of independence, ... seem, this was an ongoing event. Politicians make the call, and the military experts taking the blame. Easy to see, but at the time no. that is until post war years that one could make this argument. It is an argument wo...

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After reading this week's passages, it became very clear to me that there truly wasn't a winner in the Vietnam War. The Americans see it as a blemish upon their history because they couldn't decisively get the victory that they wanted, but the Vietnamese people have not gotten the life that they thought independence would bring them either. This seems very sad to me that after both countries faced such ... faced right after the war was having the task of unifying the north and the south, after there was basically a civil war raged between the two. The south had to be taken over and "re-educat...

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... ." By this he means, "did you have a positive outcome or will your empire weaken?" A pure example of this theory is the United State government's role in the Vietnam War and its shaming outcome. Three important points were that the government lost a lot of public support, government funds being drained on military units causing inflation, many unneeded casualties, and there was nothing to be ... gained. Machiavelli would have thought the Vietnam War to be an example of cruelty used poorly. During the Vietnam War, the US government was in turmoil over the number of people disgusted by the...

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... are preoccupied by it. He still loves her, but he also hates her. She belongs at Mount Sebastian, and he belongs somewhere else. The Vietnam War is unlike any war the United States of America has ever participated in. The United States fights a war against an enemy that is determined to gain its independence. American soldiers have little to fight for other that their own lives. To ... do not believe they can win. All they want is to return home. I think the document supports the views of the textbook. Both show the war to be largely pointless, at least in the end. The Vietnam War begin...

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... . Both sides were heavily armed, but were only fighting an idea. By the end of the war, the United States had endured both success and failure. In this essay, I will cover just three examples of what the U.S. gained and lost. After some great success stories there is another side to the Cold War. We called this the Vietnam War. This was, in my opinion, one of Americas most remembered incidents ... . Approximately 3 million U.S. Citizens were sent to Vietnam to fight a war which seemed to have no cause. By the time the grueling battle ended, over 2.5 million soldiers died from both sides. ...

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... in classrooms and drills which stimulate the sincere desire to learn for the mere reason of learning. After the Korean War came mass media and the huge vehicle for the hegemonist to transport their agendas into every American's living room. The Vietnam War was full under way and due to the I-Corps involvement to bring the war to Americans at home, the body counts started coming in. Although the enemies numbers were exaggerated to ... show the false send of accomplishment on our part, the media continued to keep the public informed. A major turning point for the Vietnam War was the My La...

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... looks like it is blowing in a fierce wind. Smoke fills most of the background, suggesting that the battle has just finished. Every figure in the scene is moving around or reacting to something, except for the dead bodies. The grandeur of this scene makes it look almost biblical. A monument that depicts war is the Vietnam War Memorial. It was designed between 1981 and 1984 by Maya Lin. It has ... two 246 foot black polished granite wings and is located in Washington, D.C. The names of 57,692 Americans ... who were killed in Vietnam are listed on the wall. The wall itself is simple and e...

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