... communists ultimately led the United States to fight a major regional war in Southeast Asia. The North Vietnamese regime, which received outside assistance from the communist great powers, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, proved to be a strong opponent. There are still questions about the strategies ... familiar with the land, and therefore, it was an easier fight for them. The American forces got squeezed in the middle as the communist powers moved from the outside borders into the center of the country. As the war continued, more troops were being shipped over for t...

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... ten who served in this war was a casualty. Was this war worth it? I think not. The Soviet Union at the time had a Communist government. They influenced and bullied other countries into supporting Communism as well. Against Communism, the United States adopted the policy of containment. It was the ... Vietnam and the Vietcong. Within a year of the North Vietnam victory over the French, the US began to offer support to the anti-Communist Ngo Dinh Diem, helping him to take control of the South Vietnamese government, which he subsequently declared a republic. The US supplied these South ... a...

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... half of 1900's who peacefully struggled for independence of Vietnam from French rule. As Nguyen the Patriot he was a founding member of the French Communist party and often engaged in radical activities. He attended training sessions in Moscow and was sent to China in 1924. It was here that he ... reported that he spent several years recovering from tuberculosis. In 1938 he served as an advisor to the Chinese Communist armed forces. In 1941 when the Japanese occupied Vietnam he worked with Indochinese Communist Party leaders and helped to found the Vietminh, an independence dominated mo...

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... seem to categorize them all with poverty throughout the entire population. When living in France, Ho converted to communism and became one of the founders of the French Communist Party. Yet I believe he was still a nationalist at heart because he came back and still assisted Vietnam gain independence. Some may say Ho Chi Minh ... cannot be a nationalist because he started a French Communist Party, but I disagree. Even after the creation of the French Communist Party, Ho Chi Minh went back and joined an exiled Vietnamese nationalist group. He was a nationalist through thick and thin, and ...

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... pride and willingness to help in a resistance movement. "They have robbed us of our rice fields, our mines, our forests, our raw materials. They have monopolized the printing of bank notes." Following the declaration of independence in 1945, Ho built up the Viet Minh with the help of General Giap. Ho and Giap arranged groups of people to go into villagers ... realised that a peaceful approach to achieving their goal was not possible, as they had been rejected by the democratic super powers (USA and Allies), Ho and the Viet Minh followed communist ways and went to seek assistance from Ru...

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... Laos and Cambodia as well as the Vietnam." French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954 after Vietnam army defeated them; French were compelled to accede to the creation of a communist north and left a non-communist entity South of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangements. The administrations of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, instead of building a nation from Political entity that ... another obstacle, when secretly he sent about 400 special operations forces trained (Green Beret) Soldiers to teach the South Vietnamese w to defend themselves called the "Counterinsurgency"...

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... to be used to decide the leader for the whole country but this never happened and the country was split. War began out between the North and the South with communist countries supporting North Vietnam and democratic countries supporting South Vietnam. Communism is a political system which promotes property and resources to be collectively owned by a society, not individuals. This is used ... Australia almost defenseless. The war in Vietnam was a guerrilla warfare which means enemies did not wear distinctive uniforms to identify themselves. This meant it was extremely hard to fight the c...

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... his first words on the Vietnam War were "I am not going to lose Vietnam. I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia become communist."" The U.S. was now fighting to keep communism out of Southeast Asia. One problem with Johnson's approach was instead of sending ships and Gatling guns, he ... into South Vietnam.In February 1965 the U.S launched operation Rolling Thunder, which was the massive bombing of North Vietnam but had little affect on the communist nation. From 1963 to 1966 the number of us troops in Vietnam went from 14 000 to 267,000 and the Regular Vietcong army g...

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... had been a French colony since 1858, but when they were driven out during World War II, Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh, a nationalist group with communist ideals formed a government in Hanoi, situated in the northern region of Vietnam. The French were unwilling to relinquish their colony, and so they went to ... war with the Vietminh forces that were supported by communist China. When the French were crushed at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, they were forced into peace negotiations. At a conference held in ... affairs of our country, the result of the Geneva Convention meddling in the affairs of ...

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... defeat toppled the French government, and it was becoming increasing difficult to maintain colonial possession over Vietnam. Furthermore, the French public support and faith was sapped and the 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 ... violence that erupted through the south signalled the instability of the South and Diems tenacious leadership. Additionally, American forces sought for a separate South Vietnam, rather than reunitin...

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... are owned by everyone. Australia and other Western countries feared communism as communists often gained power by force. After World War II most of Eastern Europe was communist and China was also communist. This growth of communist countries threatened Western countries and surrounding Asians countries. The fear of communism aggression was founded upon the "Domino Theory". The Domino Theory was the idea that ... fall to communism, starting a chain reaction in which countries fell like dominoes in a line. Therefore Australia feared that with the "fall" of South Vietnam to communist North...

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... Vietnam launched an attack on The South. The country was divided because of the communistic views of the North. Because the North was trying to take over and make it a communist country the U.S. then got involved. In 1958 we sent our first troops in. This caused much controversy throughout America. It still affects all the people who grew up in that ... Asian countries would fall like dominos." At that time he pledged to assist the South Vietnamese government with war. By 1954 there were 342 American military personal there. The mounting communist assault against the south then prompted...

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... independence of the motherland and for freedom and democracy." The Americans took this act as a sign that Kim II Sung was utilising a communist take-over, thus in October of the same year America, with UN sanction, invaded North Korea. The Korean War became the first American ... in a bid to cover up their aggressiveness by misleading world opinion" America too keeps a watchful eye on North Korea, knowing that this communist country has nuclear capability. The Vietnam War commenced very differently from Korea, the Korean War originated internally when North attacked South, but Vietnam w...

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... Vietnam launched an attack on The South. The country was divided because of the communistic views of the North. Because the North was trying to take over and make it a communist country the U.S. then got involved. In 1958 we sent our first troops in. This caused much controversy throughout America. It still affects all the people who grew up in that ... Asian countries would fall like dominos." At that time he pledged to assist the South Vietnamese government with war. By 1954 there were 342 American military personal there. The mounting communist assault against the south then prompted...

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... Presidents wanted to maintain there stature of strength and not let Russia think they were weaker. From 1946 ahead the Vietminh organisation set-up and was led by, communist Ho Chi Minh. He fought seriously with the French. They fought with far more primitive weapons than the French who used modern powerful weapons supplied by the ... ) and the new President Kennedy helped them by giving them $270 million. He sent up to 10,000 advisors to help Diem. He did this as Communist North seemed to be winning as the peasants in the south did not like Diem as he taxed them and took away there lan...

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... is able to utilize that period that follows it to attain the goals for which it struggled and sacrificed so much." (p. 160) The communist party gained the control that it so desperately fought for, but once they got the power they did not know how to manage it. Kolko said, " ... The Vietnamese Communist party became counterproductive the moment [the war] ended." (p.149) The political structure of the party was set up to fight a war and not to ... not give people much faith in their government. Currently, the situation has improved, but mainly because of the steps the government has tak...

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... of civilians lost their jobs. The Hollywood Ten for example, famous actresses, actors and directors who were accused of being involved with the Communist Party and their lives were forever ruined. The Rosenberg's received the death penalty because of the accusation of being spies for Russia. The ... fear and paranoia of Communism did not destruct after the Cold War. The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. Although President Lyndon Johnson feared Communism, his decision was incorrect to escalate troops in Vietnam ... because they wa...

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... elections by rigging them, and so therefore he became increasingly dictatorial. About Vietnam Kennedy said, "it's a test of American responsibility and determination" to prevent communist domination in Vietnam. Because for communism to be successful, everyone must be communist, and they did not want Vietnam to fall to it. Kennedy increased aid to South Vietnam and sent 16,000 military advisers, many of ... . Both Kennedy and Diem were assassinated in November, 1963. Lyndon Johnson then took over, and continued the increased military aid to South Vietnam. In 1964, the U.S.S. Maddox clashe...

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... , shoot, and run." Surprisingly, this fighting technique matched the skills of many of the best-trained soldiers from the opposite side. The Vietnam War fought between the communist North Vietnam, and the non-communist South Vietnam was supported by the United States. The main objective of the war was to contain the leader. Ho Chi Minh, was the leader of the "league ... meals. The wounded were promptly evacuated to hospitals; and in serious cases, were moved by air to base facilities in the Pacific or the United States. Late in 1967, the communist war efforts in South Vietnam depended he...

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... , let alone where it was located. It was a small country in Southeast Asia and was divided into two parts. The northern part was the Communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the southern part was the Non-Communist Republic. The North Vietnam government wanted to overthrow South Vietnam, headed by Ngo Dinh Diem, and unite the two into one country again. Diem was ... South. North Vietnamese started to rebel against Diem and from 1957 to 1959 he tried to stop the rebels from North Vietnam whom he named the Viet Cong, meaning Vietnamese Communist. Soon the United States stepped in to hel...

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... , as defined to me in the New Standard Encyclopedia, was " an undeclared war for the control of South Vietnam, starting in 1957 and ending in 1975." The war began as a Communist guerrilla campaign supported by North Vietnam, who sought control of South Vietnam. The United States feared that Communism would spread, and President Eisenhower's Domino Theory was born. By 1965 the ... . Although there was a lull in the intensity of the fighting, it did continue all throughout the spring of 1968, and into 1969, when another Tet Offensive was launched by the Communist regime. By July of 1969, Pr...

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... . For the next ten years, diplomatic tensions grew between these two nations. As North Vietnamese Communists began to threaten South Vietnam, the United States initiated a military counter to Asian communist aggression. On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which empowered President Lyndon B. Johnson to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of ... the United States in order to prevent further aggression by Communist insurgents of North Vietnam against the government of South Vietnam. The President steadily increased U.S. troop l...

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... . The Vietnam War was the longest war in which the United States took part. The war began in 1957 and ended in 1975. At that time, Vietnam was separated into Communist-ruled North Vietnam and noncommunist South Vietnam. North Vietnam wanted to end U.S. support of South Vietnam and to unite the north and south into a single nation. The United States and ... , the Vietminh under General Vo Nguyen Giap, had great difficulty in coping with the better trained and equipped French forces. The situation improved in 1949 after Mao Zedong and his communist army defeated Chaing Kai-Shek in China. Th...

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... . Both show the war to be largely pointless, at least in the end. The Vietnam War begins because of the fear of the communist "domino effect". China and the Soviet Union are communist, and now Vietnam wants to be communist. They wonder when it will end. Although good intentions existed at the beginning, the war is continued because of American pride. American citizens ... ...

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... perspective. The policies implemented would facilitate the goal of containing communism, and also prevent the over-exertion of armed forces which would demonstrate a weak American force. Preventing Vietnam from becoming a communist state would become imperative given the state of affairs in the post World War II era. From the 1880's until World War II, France governed Vietnam as part of French ... convinced that if a French defeat in Southeast Asia was allowed it would begin a "domino" affect. The theory was: Vietnam was first in a row of dominos which, if knocked over into communist ha...

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