... public and private trauma for the American people, the United States failed, for the first time in its history, to achieve its stated war aims. The goal was to preserve a separate, independent, noncommunist government in South Vietnam, but after April 1975, the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) ruled the entire nation. The initial reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam ... that a quick end of the war was not in sight. Following the Tet offensive, the American leaders began a slow and agonizing reduction of U.S. involvement. Johnson limited the bombing, began peace talks wit...

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... their Buddhist compatriots to favor a political system patterned after those of Western Europe and the United States. THE COMING OF THE WEST 19. In 1862, Vietnamese emperor Tu Duc signed a peace treaty ceding the southern provinces to the French. A year later, the French added to their new possession, which they called Cochnichina, by establishing a protectorate over Cambodia. Twenty years later, ... Indochina was due to the extension of political rights, and the exploitation of a nation of people. Due to the extension of certain political rights, the people of Indochina wanted to sepa...

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... United States history. We failed to accomplish the goals we created in the beginning. We wanted to help ensure that South Vietnam had a separate, independent, and noncommunist government. Not only were the Vietnamese affected but the American citizens her at home. It was the first war televised ... of South Vietnam. By this point, the United States already had a total of about 650,000 ground troops in Vietnam. President Johnson tried for peace talks, but nothing officially was agreed upon. In January of 1968, the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese were preparing for a major attack. "Tet ....

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... fight. A plan to build the infamous Berlin Wall was set for August 1961 by the Soviets. In June 1961 Premier Khrushchev threatened to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, which he said would end the four-power agreements guaranteeing American, British, and French rights to West Berlin. These three countries ... nor the bombing took any significant affect on the North. McNamara tried to get Johnson to stop the bombing in the North and to promote peace with the North. Johnson did not want anything to do with this idea. Johnson did not want to lose this war and was willing ... a...

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... in World War II, the United States faced the future with a sense of moral rectitude and material confidence. From Washington's perspective, the principal threat to U.S. security and world peace was monolithic, dictatorial communism emanating from he Soviet Union. Any communist anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition, and enemy of the United States. Drawing an analogy with ... that a quick end of the war was not in sight. Following the Tet offensive, the American leaders began a slow and agonizing reduction of U.S. involvement. Johnson limited the bombing, began peace talks with ...

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... order for him to get the best minds of the country to work for him, he worked with Presidential assistants, Bill Moyers and Richard N Goodwin, who helped to create separate tasks forces that worked on different subjects (Encarta 2001, "Johnson, Lyndon Baines".) Essentially, they focused on cooperation among government agencies in dealing with financial questions; making the federal government ... created because the USSR supported Arab countries while the US supported Israel. Fortunately, in what potentially could have resulted in a war, President Johnson made an effort to create peace w...

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... French Communist Party against the war gained momentum. French Prime minister, Pierre Mendes-France, became determined to end the war quickly to avoid public criticism and uphold his promise of peace. Ultimately, the Viet Minh were in a position of strength after their defeat, this was detrimental for the French outcomes in the Geneva conference of May-July 1954. In the ... American involvement and maintain Vietnamese foreign credibility. However the result was still a major defeat for American diplomacy, having 'lost' half of Vietnam, the US now believed that the peace of the worl...

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... during the war. Young American men went to Vietnam to experience the challenge of danger and the chance to come home heroes. These men had known nothing but security, comfort, peace, and enlisting for some was an act of rebellion (Caputo 8). Junior officers became intrigued by the fantasy of fighting guerrillas in distant places. These officers felt that they had not ... language, as "GSW" through the abdomen, not "shot through the stomach." Wounds from shrapnel were called "multiple fragment lacerations," and dismemberment was "traumatic amputation" (166). Separate envelopes were kept ...

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... in South-East Asia was the location where the United States failed, for the first time in its history, to achieve its stated war aims. The goal was to preserve a separate, independent, non-communist government in South Vietnam, but after April 1975, the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) ruled the entire nation. The a thousand year old domination of Vietnam by ... . However, the Japanese allowed French officials to continue to run the country. Ho Chi Minh, who had become famous in Vietnam after representing Vietnam's case for independence at the 1919 Peace Conference in Paris...

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... during the war. Young American men went to Vietnam to experience the challenge of danger and the chance to come home heroes. These men had known nothing but security, comfort, peace, and enlisting for some was an act of rebellion (Caputo 8). Junior officers became intrigued by the fantasy of fighting guerrillas in distant places. These officers felt that they had not ... language, as "GSW" through the abdomen, not "shot through the stomach." Wounds from shrapnel were called "multiple fragment lacerations," and dismemberment was "traumatic amputation" (166). Separate envelopes were kept ...

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... educated individual called Ho Chi Minh organized the people of North Vietnam and drove out the French rulers in a war that took eight years. During peace settlements in Geneva they allowed North and South Vietnam to become separate nations, divided on the 17th parallel. This was only to last for two years. After two years the two countries would then vote on ... ...

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... , was ruled by France until 1954 which ended with the Battle of Dienbiophu where a huge French army was defeated. The acceptance of the Geneva Conference to recognize Vietnam as two separate independent countries, North Vietnam and South Vietnam, was signed by representatives of French union and Vietminh forces. Elections were scheduled for 1956 in South Vietnam for reunification of Vietnam. It ... the Vietnamese new years, or "The Tet"-- North Vietnam and the Viet Cong allies attacked major cities in South Vietnam, this was labeled the Tet Offensives. It overshadowed the Tet. Peace talk...

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• Grade Level: High School