... to view their government differently. The nation was divided on its support for the war. In 1945, the French started to re-establish their colonial rule in Vietnam. However, the North Vietnamese, also known as Viet Cong, believed differently, and thought that they should rule in a communist fashion. The United States agreed to supply the French with weapons, so that they ... would be able to defeat the Viet Cong rebellion. This was America's first step into the war and once they got involved, it was hard to get out. On August 2, 1964, the North Vietnamese attacked two US Destroyers and ...

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Gina Ferraro History 137 THE VIET NAM WAR REPRESENTED THE POWER OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO WAGE WAR WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS? I agree that the Viet Nam War represented the power of an American president to wage war without the consent of congress. Below I have noted support for my answer. The United States never declared war on North Vietnam. Instead the "war " was often referred to as a conflict. Congress gave President Lyndon Johnson power to conduct military operations without declaring war and to launch a full-scale war if the president deemed it necessary. President Johnson ...

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... tearing down white supremacy; both being turning points in American society. The war in Vietnam began because America was taking a stand in the fight against communism. Viet Cong were North Vietnamese who were in favor of communism while the South Vietnamese were democrats supported by America. The Vietnam War was extensively bloody, controversial, and monumental in the introduction of new technology and warfare ... ...

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... 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 war ever waged solely as an ideological war. "For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to ... uneasy peace and to this day the two Korean nations have not reunified. Most South Koreans believe that the North are "engaged in a deceptive peace offensive in a bid to cover up their aggressiveness by misleading world opinion" Am...

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... Tonkin Gulf incident. It was the first time that America and its forces were truly threatened by the North Vietnamese forces. The USS Maddox was on patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin when it noticed North Vietnamese PT boats. The PT boats wound up firing ... North Vietnamese and the Vietcong was the Tet offensive. It produced some disturbing revelations. First it underscored the vulnerability of South Vietnam's cities once considered safe. It also raised question about the different strategies and tactics being used, specifically the search-and-destroy missions. This offensive even led Presid...

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... 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 growing more ... the attack of the North Vietnamese, but there has never been any proof to prove or disprove this happening. President Johnson asked congress for approval for all necessary actions and the approval was unanimous. This led to the first ground troops to be deployed from America to South Vietnam...

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... by the French with it's capital in Saigon controlled the South. 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 ... place in Australia with the visit of the American President "Lyndon Johnson" in 1966. It was not long after this time, America came to realize that this was a war they simply could not win. 1968. Although the U....

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... interfere with other nation's affairs to stop Communism. Basically the U.S. decided to take on the mission of crusading against Communism around the globe. America's huge fear of communism lead them to believe that if Vietnam became Communist, then that would lead to a "domino effect,"" in south-east ... Asia whereby Burma, Thailand and Indonesia, would become Communist countries. The Domino Theory, feared that with the "fall" of North Vietnam to Communism, all of Southeast Asia might fall, setting off a sort of Communist chain reaction. The war began as a determined attempt by ... Ame...

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... proven its effectiveness in conflict all around the world. Possibly one of the worst wounds it has succumbed, the Vietnam conflict dug deep into America as a whole changing everything from the economy to the strategies presidents relied on for taking actions. A few years after Lyndon Baines Johnson ... Viet Cong guerillas attacked a U.S. Air Force base in South Vietnam. In retaliation a massive air strike was launched against military installations in North Vietnam, this forced America all the deeper into the conflict which would prove to be greater than they capable of handling. The re...

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... elections were to be held in 1956 in which the Vietnamese could vote for one leader for the tow divisions. The Vietminh leader Minh controlled North Vietnam and Bao Dai Controlled South Vietnam; he was disliked and was exiled by Diem. Diem was a Nationalist and was supported by the Americans ... . Diem had no intention of holding the elections and said that the communists would not allow free elections in the North. This broke the Geneva peace agreement and the USA supported his actions. This broke the agreement and the agreement was promised to be defended by ... 11th of February 1965 P...

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... 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 ... you were a veteran who actually fought or just an ordinary citizen. The war finally ended on April 30, 1973 with a defeated America going home, after the North Vietnamese had taken over the south. The U.S. first got involved after president Dwight Eisenhower said, "If we let the communists take ov...

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... 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 ... you were a veteran who actually fought or just an ordinary citizen. The war finally ended on April 30, 1973 with a defeated America going home, after the North Vietnamese had taken over the south. The U.S. first got involved after president Dwight Eisenhower said, "If we let the communists take ov...

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... their involvement in South Vietnam. By 1968, things had gone from bad to worse for the Johnson administration. In late January, the North Vietnamese launched coordinated attacks against the major southern cities. These attacks were known as the Tet Offensive and were designed to "break the ... believed that he had to invade to keep the U.S. troops leaving South Vietnam safe. Since Cambodia was a neutral country, many people in America protested the invasion. On May 2nd, 1970, the R.O.C.T building at Kent State University in Ohio was set on fire. 750 Ohio Guardsmen ... president Nguyen v...

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... and had the effect of dramatically changing US military and political policies towards the whole Vietnam War. At first Tet was a great success for the North Vietnamese. In Saigon, they took over many important buildings, including the US embassy (though only for a few hours before being repulsed by US marines ... with the VC. By the end of the campaign Hué was almost completely destroyed. Although the Tet offensive was a military disaster for the North, with 45,000 dead and over 170,000 casualties, it turned out to be a political success because of the effects it had on US ... resources...

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... Vietnam War was the longest war in which the United States took part. In 1954 Vietnam was divided into two sections, the North and the South. Ho Chi Minh led the North and they believed in communism. Ngo Dinh Diem led the anti-communist south. The United States sent civilian and military advisers to ... help the South Vietnamese to prevent the spread of communism. By 1965 the U.S. began sending troops to Vietnam and bombing North Vietnam. American involvement in the war became very unpopular in the U.S. By 1973 when China and the Soviet Union were sending arms and supplies to ... North ...

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... the current Iraq war. This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. North Vietnam wanted to have Communism for a government under the influence of Ho Chi Minh, and the South wanted to have democracy, under the ... influence of the French rule. Richard Nixon, the president of America at that time, quoted "We will fight any country that is fighting for ... they could escape without being noticed. Being that it was the Vietcong's homeland, they were in the better position to win this war. B. Trouble In...

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... forces. The shift between protectors was clearly shown when on the 27th of December; John Curtin said "I make it clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links to the UK" (Evans, page 22). The process of shifting between protectors helped to ... of the South Vietnamese President Diem in a coup. The ensuing confusion presented the communists in the north with an ideal opportunity to seize control of the south. Despite the popular view that Australia followed America blindly to war, we became involved in the conflict for a multitude of reasons. The gove...

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... he was unwilling to accept a compromise "that would amount to a disguised American defeat." (1) So, he began two initiatives, one of withdrawing American troops and one of negotiating with the North Vietnamese. (2) The Vietnamization was not designed to produce a victory, but to replace the American lives with South Vietnamese. The Nixon administration was looking for "peace with honor." They were ... the right kind of peace."(3) The Vietnamization policy seemed effective enough to the administration to gain a lasting peace, but South Vietnam was to eventually fall in April of 1975. Amer...

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Ho Chi Minh, a communist Vietnamese revolutionary leader, returned to North Vietnam in 1959. This started the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1959 - 1973 when the U.S finally withdrew. More than 3 million people were killed;  ... but the U.S still denied him. As the fighting between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese continued, the U.S. sent additional advisers to help South Vietnam. When the North Vietnamese fired directly upon two U.S. ships in international waters, on August 2 and 4, 1964, the United States created the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. This resolution gave President ... not ...

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... women and people at home I learned a lot about Vietnam. From the movie I learned about the emotions that America was feeling and how the American government was reacting to the situation. America was not used to holding an area and training demoralized militia that South Vietnam was giving. Our troops were outnumbered ... and in foreign lands where children were used and sacrificed as weapons America had not experienced this and it was killing us. We couldn't tell Viet Cong and North Vietnamese from our apprenticing South Vietnamese. Pop cans were turned into bombs and the greedy merchan...

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Ho Chi Minh was the North Vietnamese leader during war with America. Ho Chi Minh shared the same political beliefs as his father. His father, Nguyen refused to learn French and lost many job opportunities in Vietnam because of this. Ho truly ... 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 was for all of Vietnam as a nationalist, and was not satisfied since Vietman was not united. He claimed he was in authority of all of Vietnam and worked ... he...

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... set the perimeter for an airstrip that would ensure the arrival and departure of military troops and goods. Caputo and the ninth Expeditionary Brigade had clashed with the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong, leading to combat that proved that this war was going to be one they could not lose and would have to ... Caputo titled "In Death's Grey Land" and it is in this section when he gets reassigned to his rifle company. He admits that he views the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong as fierce and skilled fighters and that they have earned his and other American soldiers' respect....

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... neighbor and rival, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Preventing South Vietnam from falling to the 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 ... political reasoning rather than foreign policy or military tactics. Politically, Kennedy and Johnson kept troops in Vietnam to keep communism from taking over during their term in of...

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... was responsible for widespread protests and demonstrations throughout the late 1960s. The United States' involvement in Indochina was an issue that pitted friend against friend and generation against generation. Indeed, America was torn between sharply divergent opinions. For those young Americans who were drafted into service against their will, the thought of Vietnam, even years later, sent chills of anger ... 1954, the possibility of the spread of communism in Vietnam captured the attention of the United States. For the next ten years, diplomatic tensions grew between these two natio...

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... constitution. The decision declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal. Ho Chi minh one of the most well known Vietnamese because of his leading role in the war between North and South Vietnam known as Vietnam war. Founder of the Indochina communist party in 1930 and president from 1945 -69 of the democratic republic of Vietnam. Gulf of Tonkin incident ... to the escalation and official documentation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam National liberation front- it was formed in 1960 to effect the overthrow of south Vietnamese government and the reunification of nor...

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