... of during the war. The Vietnam Nationalists, the same ones who had supported the U.S. in the war against the Japanese not more than a year previous, sought only to peacefully gain their independence from France (Chant 25). In January of 1950, the Viet Minh gained recognition by the governments of the USSR and China, who supplied weapons and places to train (Chant 25). Because the two Communist superpowers recognized the Viet Minh, the Vietnam war became to the U.S. a struggle ... between capitalism and communism, especially since the Viet Minh were openly communist themselves. By aiding...

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... directly related to the political management of the military throughout the war. The military controlled by the politicians. The micro management of the military by the White House for political gain is the primary reason for both the length and cost, both monetary and human, of the Vietnam War. One of the largest problems was the lack of a clear objective in the war and the support to accomplish it. The politicians controlled the war in Vietnam. It was to be a limited war. The military was ... never allowed to fight the war how ... ...

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... critics of the war pointed out that the conflict was political and that the military mission lacked clear objectives. Civilian critics of the war argued that the government of South Vietnam lacked political legitimacy, and that support for the war was immoral" (Edwards 264). The growing anti-war movement alarmed the U.S. government, and eventually dictated the way the government ran the war. A main source to why American citizens were against the war was television. The Vietnam Revolution was the first war of its ... kind to be televised to Americans during the actual fighting. Journali...

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... of during the war. The Vietnam Nationalists, the same ones who had supported the U.S. in the war against the Japanese not more than a year previous, sought only to peacefully gain their independence from France (Chant 25). In January of 1950, the Viet Minh gained recognition by the governments of the USSR and China, who supplied weapons and places to train (Chant 25). Because the two Communist superpowers recognized the Viet Minh, the Vietnam war became to the U.S. a struggle ... between capitalism and communism, especially since the Viet Minh were openly communist themselves. By aiding...

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... without a fight. Eventually, the talks of independence failed and the First Indochina War began. The First Indochina War lasted from 1946 to 1954. The French had regained control of the Southern half of Vietnam. The French, now backed with U.S. support, desperately tried to keep their "colonial grip" over Vietnam. The U.S. made the decision to back the French versus the Viet Minh because they ... wanted to end the rising popularity of communism in Asia. After World War ... II, France was a weakened nation from fighting and the U.S. believed that they "needed the resources from their col...

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... voided out when North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam and removed Thieu's government and united the entire country under the mantle of communism. The conflict in Vietnam paralleled another conflict in the United States. The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965-1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. While the Vietnam War was going on the ant-war movement was in full swing in the US. The nexus of this movement ... was college campuses where the in the spring of 1965, teach ... ...

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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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... South Vietnam was to pacify the Republic of Vietnam by destroying the V. C . while at the same time reestablishing the government apparatus, strengthening South Vietnamese military forces, rebuilding the administrative machinery, and re-instituting the service of the Government." One of the problems to the main mission is that the United States failed to correctly identify the nature of the Vietnam War, also failed to identify the center of the war. The way the United States looked at the Vietnam War, was as a revolutionary war, and ... focusing on the Viet ... ...

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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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... . But President Eisenhower was reluctant to comply without the consent of Congress and without a larger U.S. role in making strategy. He proposed instead that the major western powers form a military alliance to ensure the defeat of the Vietminh. 43. The name of the agreement that ended the Vietnam War for the French was the Geneva Agreement. The agreement was a cease-fire between France and the DRV. The cease-fire was achieved by establishing two roughly ... equal regroupment zones, divided at the seventeenth parallel where a demilitarized zone was set up at ... ...

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