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Vietnam War


             Not only were American troops dying by the hundreds but they were also televising all the killing that was going on. The Vietnam War was the first war that Americans were actually able to watch on their home television. .
             The Vietnamese tactic of fighting was very brutal they stopped at no cost. Troops would be riding down one of the many rivers and look up and see American troops without heads. The Northern Vietnamese were also aware that Americans were seeing all of the killing and destruction on their televisions.
             Back on the home front there was also killing going on. College students were getting killed, along with blacks. Blacks wanted more power. There were many movements for civil rights and people were getting killed just for wanting to be equal. College Students were rallying to create awareness about all the young people that were getting killed. It got so bad 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 in the U.S. were getting tired of the War they felt that the money that was being spent on the war which was approximately twenty-billion dollars could 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 come home.
             In 1973 North and South Vietnam came to terms to end the war. The United State agreed to remove their troops. South Vietnam is allowed to hold their own elections. Northern Vietnam agrees to return all Prisoners of war. United States and Soviet Unions relations began improving.
             There were many people killed in this war.


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1. The Vietnam War - Lessons and Mistakes

... parts each drawing the nation toward differing courses of action. Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. The conflict in Vietnam started well before the United States got involved. Vietnam was part of Indochina which also includes Cambodia and Laos. These countries were under French colonial rule. Wanting their freedom and independence from the ... and many children were born with birth defects. Their largest crops were destroyed because of the herbicides used. 800,000 children were orphaned in South Vietnam and at least 10 million people...

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2. Making Sense of the Vietnam War

... of the fabricated coverage the media delivered. A great deal of the lack of support was due to the misconceived knowledge of the war. To this day, the Vietnam War is considered one of the most controversial events in American History. "The war on the US home front provoked deepening bitterness and still remains hugely controversial. Social, cultural, and political fissures that opened or widened ... the complete underlying reasons for the US involvement. The conflict between the United States and the North Vietnamese nation began long before the first US troops arrived in Vietnam in 196...

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... 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 the French, the U.S. thought they were helping their free-trade ... under Ho Chi Minh's regime, the U.S. was glad to offer France assistance, but even after the French humiliation at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the U.S. continued their involvement in Vietnam ...

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4. Vietnam

... possibility of a communist influenced nationalist movement. We must allow a communist influence in the government instead of attempting to repress a genuinely nationalist revolution, which is the case in Vietnam. In conclusion, Fulbright states that the Vietnam War drains valuable resources, which could be better spent on improving the general status of our country. Because American policy prioritized anti-communism over sympathy for nationalism, this ... unification. The U.S. knew that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese wished to establish one ruling government, the Communist Party. Th...

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5. Vietnam War

... Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson the power to take whatever action necessary to defend South Vietnam. After the Vietnam War, this would be the last time in which a president would receive such personal ability to attack in a war in whatever form that president desired. The war was now on and the Allied forces were not expecting the fight that would occur next. The ... Minh City, in honor of its former leader. On July 2, 1976 North Vietnam unified both North and South Vietnam to form the present day Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The war was now over. As former Preside...

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6. A Fatal Mistake the Vietnam War

... 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 the French, the U.S. thought they were helping their free-trade ... under Ho Chi Minh's regime, the U.S. was glad to offer France assistance, but even after the French humiliation at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the U.S. continued their involvement in Vietnam ...

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7. Kennedy and the Cuban Crisis vs Johnson and Vietnam

... provided assistance with training and weapons. With the assistance of the CIA, General Vang Pao led a secret army of 9,000 Hmong men in 1961. Laos was a neutral country when the Vietnam War broke out, and the US had signed the Geneva Accords, which stated that Laos had to stay a neutral country and that there could be no international occupation or intervention within ... the CIA trained locals to ward off communism a quick and easy victory would be achieved. Many people thought that Laos was no part of the Vietnam War. Laos played a critical role, because supplies from the Communist No...

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8. Vietnam War

... demarcation, or boundary, line near the seventeenth parallel, the area around the line was known as the DMZ, or Demilitarized Zone (Barr 18). The Presidents had a big role in the Vietnam War. To problems at home to problems on the battlefield, it had to be a long, devastating four years in office for each president. Harry S. Truman was one of the first ... presidents to assist in the war ("Vietnam War-). The Truman administration believed that the United States and its allies must meet any sign of communist aggression quickly and forcefully. Any communist anywhere, at home, or abroad, wa...

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... decisions in light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why." (McNamara "The Tragedy and lessons of Vietnam" Preface) Many argue now that the Vietnam War was a deadly mistake, and it is my opinion as well. History cannot be looked at trough White and Black glasses. There are neither completely wrong nor right ... to about 1968, when number of casualties increase and many people asked why America need to fight this war thousand miles from home. There are several good points why America went in Vietnam, but the war could be easily ...

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10. The effects of the Vietnam War on American Soldiers

... pain of losing them if they died. So if the soldier only worried about himself, then he would not have feelings for other soldiers. Many friendships were made during the Vietnam War and many sacrifices were made for friends, sometimes even the greatest sacrifice, death was made. However, the division between veteran soldiers and the new soldiers was often very significant, and ... what happened to the rest of the guys that were left and who is still around today (Mason, Wang & Wilson 1996). One important fact about the Vietnam War was that it was America's first true integrated war. Wom...

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