Vietnam War Essay

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Beth Field
Babcock
CP English 4
December 3, 2014

Vietnam War

The United States got involved in Vietnam was to stop the “Domino Theory.” The domino theory is when a country becomes Communist then another becomes Communist. We got involved to help the French, who were trying to fight them before we even got involved. In July of 1950 The United States Pledged fifteen million worth of military aid to help France fight Vietnam. In the 50s Eisenhower sent advisors to help train French to retaliate against Vietnam and in the 60s JFK sent in special ops to train the military already there. In 1964, American warships were fired at by North Vietnam, but they aren’t sure who fired first. This made congress allow military to be sent into Vietnam. March 8, 1965, the first set of troops were sent into Vietnam and by December of 1968 the amount of troop reached around 540,000. Guerilla warfare was one of the major tactics used during war and it didn’t focus power in one spot. North Vietnam would not battle Americans unless they believed they would win. Each person in the NLF had to dig about three feet tunnels every day. They were not used as shelter but a fighting base. It made it so they could use there offense tactics even when the village was being taken over. One tactic used by the U.S. was body bag but, it didn’t work. They were killing as many as they could, and Vietnam just accepted death and continued the fight. The U.S. casualty went forty to one. The draft worked like a

The Vietnam War And Their Control Of Vietnam

themselves. During World War 2 the French were invaded by Germany and they lost their control of Vietnam. Soon the Japanese would seek control of Vietnam and occupied them until 1945. They pulled out after World War 2, probably because they were crippled after the war. The United States defeated the Japanese in World War 2 and soon enough we saw North Vietnam a threat. Ho Chi Minh occupied North Vietnam and influenced by the ideology of communism. France went back to Vietnam because they disagreed…

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Introduction……………………………………………………………………………… 2 Causes of the war…………………...…………………………………………………… 3 United States Involvement in the war………………………………………………….. 4 The Vietcong……………………………………………………………………………. 5 Australia Involvement in war…………………………………………………………… 7 The Vietnam War Timeline……………………………………………………………. 9 The War Aftermath…………………………………………………………………….. 10 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………. 11 Works Cited…………………………………………………………………………….. 13 Vietnam War Introduction The Vietnam War took place between 1955…

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Vietnam war Essay

THE VIETNAM WAR The Vietnam War was fought to protect democracy and prevent Asia from falling into communist control. It started when France lost control of Vietnam during World War II. When the Viet-Minh led by communist leader Ho Chi-Minh took Hanoi the capitol of Vietnam. Ho Chi-Minh then declared Vietnam an independent country, but France refused to recognize Ho Chi-Minh’s declaration and returned to Vietnam. This caused Ho Chi-Minh’s forces to attack French forces starting the First…

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Vietnam War DBQ

home by foreign entanglements. Either because of the war experience that many faced or because of the lessons Americans later drew from the experience, which drastically altered society during the 1960’s and 1970’s. The belief in the right to influence the internal affairs of other countries led to total disaster in Southeast Asia. This disaster would forever be known as the longest war in the nation's history which had lasted twenty years. Vietnam became another action in the containment of communism…

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1975, The United States was involved in The Vietnam War, the longest ever fought by the United States. This war was a struggle of power between North Vietnam, which was supported by its communist allies, and South Vietnam, which was backed by the United States. To this day, the involvement of the United States in Vietnam remains a topic of great debate. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact origin and reason for the US intervention in Vietnam. Vietnam was previously a French Colony. However, France…

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Failure in Vietnam The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial and bloodiest wars in United States history. This war was unique, because it was the first war that media outlets covered it to an extreme, bringing graphic images of the war to homes across the country. The question many historians will ask about this war is how could the U.S, the most powerful military in the world, lose despite winning every major battle? That is where this essay will go into how a defeat in Vietnam started all…

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have included a list of movies that are set during the Vietnam War. I feel that each movie showed a different and emotionally raw part of what war truly looks like on the front line. First Full Metal Jacket is a movie that follows soldier from two different views the first is boot camp and later when they are shipped off to fight during the war. I think it would be beneficial for students to see this movie because it shows our approach as a military at that time to break down our soldiers to find…

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The Vietnam War was by far the most unpopular American-involved war of the 20th century. From the harsh stories of war to the images shown on the television, the Vietnam War was, simply put, one of the most detested wars in 20th century American history. The Vietnam War created a questioning for US moral superiority and the United States’ status as a “rightful, freedom fighting country”. This created a new era of literature, where war protests were accompanied by overwhelming amounts of anti-war literary…

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