... in 1957. In 1961 the U.S. started sending more and more military advisors and supplies over to calm the situation down. In 1964 the not yet war in Vietnam took an ugly turn for the worse in the Gulf of Tokin incident. The U.S. boat, The Maddox, reported being fired on by Vietnamese gunboats, however upon arial inspection there were no boats in the ... water. Back home President Johnson and Robert McNamara, his Secretary of Defense were in favor of the war and needed an excuse to get U.S. troops in Vietnam ... to ensure to stop of communism. President Johnson reported to the country tha...

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... skewed results of battles and strategies perpetrated by the administration and the military leaders. Consequently, the amount of US service members killed in the war reached 58,220. A major motivation for US Presidents during the Viet Nam intervention was to stop the spread of communism, also called the ... burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty ". Kennedy inherited the Cold War policy from President's Truman and Eisenhower and was determined to stop the spread of communism. Viet Nam was seen by Kennedy as a...

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... at times that Johnson sent the National Guard to try to calm the riots. Back in Vietnam there were warships that were being attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. This caused the U.S. to send even more troops to Vietnam. The Tonkin Resolution was made so further attacks would be prevented. People ... be used to help fund American programs. In the election of 1968 Richard Nixon was elected and promised to get out country out of the war. He started the Vietnamization which when we sent our troops to equip and train the South Vietnamese to take over fighting so U.S. troops could ... 955 flight ...

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... anger, patriotism and tactics. They fought using Guerrilla techniques and gave them major advantage to the Vietminh. The US was not actually into the war they were just supplying the French. The French primarily fought to preserve their empire disagreed in the reason why America got involved. The USA were ... fighting against communism and not as war between colonialists and Nationalists. The USA were fighting for the wrong reasons. The year 1954 was a major turning point, which brought about the ... Vietnam. He poured more money and bombed the Ho Chi Minh trail. The Gulf on Tonking in...

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... President John F. Kennedy made 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" war against the communist guerillas in South Vietnam. There were more than 16,000 U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam, and more than 100 or more Americans had been killed by the ... John F. Kennedy was killed in 1961. Lyndon B. Johnson (Kennedy's successor), committed the United States most fully to the war. "2 In 1964, he secured from congress a functional (not act...

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... began to emerge. Consequently, this ensured hostility and a huge loss of public support which ultimately led to political leaders announcing the gradual withdrawal from the war. Conscription, also known as national service, is a system of enrolment where it is compulsory for men and women to join the armed forces. The ... time duties. When this system was introduced, it attracted many opponents, but it was when the government increased the size of Australia's commitment to the war that made the use of conscripts necessary. This caused a significant rise in public opposition. Although man...

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... quote from the commonwealth parliamentary debates on the 21st of April 1965, Menzies states "I subscribe to the Domino theorybecause I believe it obviousthat if war ends with some compromise that denies South Vietnam a real and well protected independence, Laos and Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia will be vulnerablehas ... 1965, it was made up of middle class woman that were aware politically aware or concerned about their sons and relatives fighting in the war and overseas conscription. Conscription was reintroduced in 1964, it was made a law that every male aged 20 ...

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... U.S. Marine Corps, Lieutenant Philip Caputo was a part of the ninth Expeditionary Brigade, which was the first group of troops sent into the Vietnam War. His brigade was deployed to Da Nang and they were supposed to set the perimeter for an airstrip that would ensure the arrival and departure of ... a rifle and did not want to be cooped up inside. However, his time away from the battlefields gave Caputo a different outlook on the war. He started to notice that the officers were more concerned over trivial matters rather than strategies. Caputo also describes soldiers showing off the d...

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... and northern was communist. In 1956 an election was going 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 ... promote the fairest society for everyone as a community. While democracy is used in Australia and means the population is used to elect a government and representatives. Communist forces in The Vietnam War wer...

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... It still affects all the people who grew up in that generation, whether 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 ... the communists take over, the other 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 president John F. Kennedy t...

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... It still affects all the people who grew up in that generation, whether 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 ... the communists take over, the other 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 president John F. Kennedy t...

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... troops sent by South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. August of 1968 was without a doubt the bloodiest and most horrific year of the war that the American soldiers had to endure. This was the year of the Tet Offensive, which had started in January of that year with ... of pacification, and brought to the forefront American outcries for peace. With all that in mind, the American government had to re-think where this war was taking us. In previous years both sides had made several attempts to explore a basis on which to negotiate a peace settlement. Following the year ... on Soc. 001/ru...

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... to have sex with them for 15 dollars. One of the most similar things in both the novel and the movie would be the women in the war. Private Joker and his platoon are on the battlefield right in the middle of the city were they were attack by a sniper. The sniper killed ... shot and killed. Kien was the only one who survived. The author and producer in both the novel and the movie also show many hardships during the Vietnam War. The soldiers had a hard time living in Vietnam because the country's economy is poor. There are also many differences between the novel and the movie. ... that h...

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... the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Unknown to the Vietminh Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin had already decided what would happen to post-war Vietnam at a summit-meeting at Potsdam. They had agreed that the country would be divided into two, the northern half under the control ... North Vietnam. The French, however, had a firm hold on the south. When it became clear that France was becoming involved in a long-drawn out war, the French government tried to negotiate a deal with the Vietminh. They offered to help set-up a national government and promised they woul...

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... shocked at the out come of this war becuse they lost more men in this war than any other war they been in. During the war the American people were split in half. If they were for the war they were called the war hawks and if they were against the war they were called doves. The U.S. went into this war very confident thinking they could use their ... warfare tatics and they were fighting in thick jungle areas. The Vietnamese did not wear uniforms and there was no clear battlefront. This changed the U.S. attitude about rushing into war and thinking that there new technology would let them...

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... because to my mind it coincides with the author's position concerning this question. Let's remember Fowler's trip to Phat Diem - the town where war actions directly took place. Fowler had known Phat Diem well before the attack: it had been the most living town in all the country, and ... with her straw peasant hat with a kind of modesty) and two boys in a watchtower, where Fowler and Pyle stayed for a while. "One shouldn't fight war with children," - said Fowler. After the explosion at the square he wondered how many dead colonels could justify a child's or a trishaw driver's death. He ....

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... realist. Cross also becomes a stricter commander, a "stickler" for order. Lavender's death causes Cross, like his other soldiers, to realize the harsh truth of the war. Previously these men partake in whatever duty they have to perform with a sense of detachment. They have no drive or passion. They have no sense of why they ... are even in this war; this is not their war to fight. Regardless, soldiers are trained to battle, and that is what they do. Kiawa's thoughts reveal that "the emotion wasn't there and ... nothing won or lost." Death is not on their minds; death is not going to hap...

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... 1965, President Johnson sent the first American combat troops to South Vietnam, and at that point, it became an American War. When the first American troops went to war in Vietnam, Americans went to war at home. Hawks, people in support of the war, believe that our support of non-Communist South Vietnam was necessary to prevent the expansion of Communisim in Southeast Asia ... North Vietnam took over South Vietnam and other southeast Asian countries, they would "all fall over like dominoes" with communism. Opponenets of the war, Doves, steadily protested. They thought the United States ...

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... bodies in mass graves or piled along roads. Pictures taken from aircraft and satellites can make the destruction seem distant. These photographs can make the war seem disconnected, or distanced from reality. The prints from aircraft show the bombs exploding over a large area, and supposedly hitting its intended targets. But ... what the picture do not show you is the actual death and destruction. This allows for the viewer to see a "civil" war, a war with out the miss drops. When it comes to taking pictures of soldiers, many of the photos have been taken at the same level as the ... ph...

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... 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 the Americans ... retaliated by air attacks. This event lead them one more step deeper into the war. By the end of 1964, the United States had 23,000 "advisors" in Vietnam. These men and Air Force personnel were being targeted more ... February 7, 1965, the Viet Cong attacked a United States airfield. By this time, France was c...

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... 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 ... same. It was on the 27th of December 1972, the newly elected Labor government in Australia stopped all Australian involvement in the war. The war ended not long after that in January 1973 when a cease-fire agreement was reached and all American ground troops were brought home. ... 1975. The...

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... have to put our trust in "great and powerful friends" Vietnam 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 ... presented the communists in the north with an ideal opportunity to seize co...

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... an example, the administration wanted to prove to that the United States would not stand for Communist aggression. Past historic events from World War II with Adolf Hitler, at Munich in 1938, displayed that if aggression is not immediately handled the aggressors become more encouraged. Johnson ... and his administration also wanted to take over this war because if South Vietnam were to fall to the Communists its" neighboring countries, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, would fall to communism as ... . As the cameras pointes at the police the demonstrators chanted, "The whole world is watchin...

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... food, the various species of animals, microbes and even plants migrated or died respectively, bordering extinction. "The destruction of the habitats by the war, threatened the extinction of many species that were already rare, and pushed others into the rare column."(www.greenleft.org.au). The white ... cheeked Gibbon, Sarus Cranes, wild water buffalos and the deer were a few of the species heavily affected by the war. According to Arthur Westing, the only species that thrived were the termites. Vietnam, once referred to as one of the "world's most ... of tree cover." (Vo Quy 8). The Vie...

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... of territory easily, Defoliants that killed jungles and humans alike, and ground fire power that was greater that any in history. Johnson believed that the key to success in the war in Vietnam was to frighten North Vietnam's leaders with the possibility of full-scale U.S. military intervention. In January 1964 he approved top-secret, covert attacks against North Vietnamese territory, ... Offensive and were designed to "break the aggressive will" of the Johnson administration and force Washington to the bargaining table. The Communist Party believed that the American people were growing...

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