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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sending out American soldiers to solve foreign problems, even when the issue does not jeopardize American security. Vietnam, "The Pointless War", caused the country to lose over 58,000 American military personnel, and according to the National Coalition for the Homeless, published by the National Coalition for the Homeless, 47% of homeless veterans served during the during the Vietnam Era(3). Global Engagement, or world policing, has shown to have more negative effects than positive ones. Nations should
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The Vietnam War Memorial. It is a wall containing the names of the thousands of people that have sacrificed their lives for the sake of this country and for the sake of a small country in Asia. It is a monster that many people are afraid of visiting because of the emotional impact it carries. There are so many names. These names go on and on and on across the wall. There are over fifty-eight thousand names on this wall and every single one of them are real people, people with real families, with
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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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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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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
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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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Hearts and minds of the civilians is the arson to the power of insurgents, without which, they would not be able to achieve their aim, as seen in the Vietnam War when the US attempted a more ‘on the ground’ approach to unify Vietnam by supporting and pushing the democratic south whilst facing a strong communist north fronted by the Soviet Union. The failure of the counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine and the divided fronts from the United States ultimately cost them the victory required to push out
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Vietnam War J.Gibbon CHA3U T.Rotskas 30/05/14 By far one of the most significant war and one of the most controversial wars in American History is the Vietnam War. Considerably the most unsuccessful war, although it was extremely influential impact to America. The Vietnam War was a controversial event across the United States in the late 60’s up to the early 70’s. Not because of the fact that the US was losing the war, but for every other aspect as well. What was it really worth? Was
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by. America fought hard during World War II with Russia as their ally and at the end of the war, the Allies reigned victorious. This would then lead the once two allied nations into a political war, a war with no bullets, but with different beliefs. One belief being capitalism while the other would be communism. This war would be known as the Cold War. The Cold War would cause many problems through out the 20th century including one of the most problematic wars that people still question the justification
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borders. War, justifiable or not, is one of the most defining reflections of human violence. It is a descent into chaos and destruction. Despite the consequences of war, almost every generation since the birth of the United States has been involved in a war, however, the American people have not supported all of these wars. With the outbreak of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, the antiwar movement exploded, exposing a deep division within society. Controversial government policy during the Vietnam war evoked
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The Vietnam War The Vietnam War was a brutal and very costly war. The U.S.A got in a fight to try and resist the spreading of communism. I believe the war was costly but the U.S.A did have good reasons for getting involved. Chapter 51 The decisive battle of the First Indochina War began in March 1954, when Viet Minh launched a surprise attack on a large French military base at Dien Bien Phu, in the mountains of northern Vietnam. They soon had the base surrounded. They soon had the base surrounded
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The Vietnam War After World War II ended, the world was polarized. The Communist World, was composed of the Soviet Union and its satellites and allies, and the powers of the Western world, was composed of the United States and its allies. They have different political systems and opposite ideologies. Both of them want to expand their influence in the world. So, they clashed with each other. Since World War II just ended, both of their powers greatly weakened by the war, so they did
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Vietnam War Vietnam War-1954-1975 The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States. During the Second World War Southeast Asia had been under Japanese control however in 1945 the French re-occupied Indo-China. A nationalist group, the Vietminh, eventually surrounded and wiped out the French occupying army and America was dragged into fighting a disastrous war in Vietnam. More than
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The Vietnamese were controlled by France from 1859 until the defeat of France in World War II. The French had lost their power and Vietnam gained independence But, the French would not give up without a fight. They still wanted control over Vietnam. The only way they could do this was to fight for the land The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was fought between France and Vietnam. Dien Bien Phu was the name of the city that the battle was fought in; therefore, you get the name of the battle. The Vietnamese
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a "just war," A just war is a type of war that comes as a last resort after exhausting all the available peaceful options to solve an issue. In the case of this war, it is important to note that the Vietnam War was not called for thus making it unjustified because there was no benefit that the US was going to get from the war. The reason why is speculate the war as being unjustified is because, North Vietnam had tried spreading the concept of communism in to the southern part of Vietnam. In this
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to 1986. It was first used in later stages of the Philippine-American War, and was widely used in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The pistol's formal designation as of 1940 was Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 for the original model of 1911 or Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911A1 for the M1911A1, adopted in 1924. The designation changed to Pistol, Caliber .45, Automatic, M1911A1 in the Vietnam era.[1] In total, the U.S. procured around 2.7 million M1911 and M1911A1
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The Vietnam war produced varying public opinion, pro-Vietnam war advocates believed the war to be a necessary action to prevent the spread of communist ideology to the west, on the other hand, anti-war advocates began demonstrating against a violent war that had no clear objectives or reasoning for an intervention, also considering previous western control of Vietnam and determining that Vietnam should have authority over its own affairs. Initially, the anti-Vietnam war movement began on college
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The Vietnam War was the longest and most controversial war Australia has ever fought. Although initially having wide spread support due to concerns about the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, as Australia's military involvement increased a number of anti-war movement developed. To a large extent this focused upon conscription, which had been an issue in Australia dating back to the First World War; however, considerable portions of society were opposed to the war on political and moral grounds
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2.WHY WERE WE IN VIETNAM? WRITE A COHERENT ESSAY EXPLAINING AMERICA'S INVOLVEMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. PLEASE USE MATERIAL FROM O‘ BRIEN, LECTURES, THE TEXT AND HEARTS & MINDS. The end of World War II brought many changes to the United States. Some were domestic, like the end of the economic depression through the construction of factories for war supplies and by extension the creation of more jobs. Some of the biggest changes that had long-lasting effects, however, were at the international level
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The war on drugs has been going on since the 1970’s and has been largely unsuccessful. These policies have been in place since Vietnam era. Some say these policies were created to combat the hippie movement. These groups of people who were largely anti-war and anti-establishment in a time when the government needed support of the American people. They were also known for their heavy use of drugs. To reflect these change now prisons are overcrowded and thousands of deaths are still related to the
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might me detrimental, there are many cases in which a reexamination of facts is beneficial. Compelling arguments for this proposition can be found in history. As demonstrated by the experience of Michael McKenna, an attack helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, uncertainty can save lives. Michael was patrolling the sky when his commanding officer told him to eliminate a group of Vietnamese soldiers travelling towards a US base. When he arrived over the group, he felt uneasy about shooting them and asked
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Truman 1945- 1953 The United States entered the Vietnam war in a series of steps between 1950and 1965. Moreover, in May 1950 President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French who were fighting to obtain control of their Indochina colony including Laos in Cambodia as well as Vietnam. Dwight Eisenhower 1953- 1961 In February 1954 President Eisenhower refused to commit American troops the Franco Vietnamese war. Similarly, he stated, “I cannot conceive of a
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The Vietnam War was from 1959 to 1975. Vietnam was fighting even before the war began. It was said to be the greatest generation of fighters. The French ruled Vietnam, it has five colonies that were smaller, Tonkin (North Vietnam), Cochin-China (South Vietnam), Annam (mainly in the mountains) and Loas and Cambodia. In December 1941, Japanese attacked the colonies of Singapore and Malaya. President Roosevelt didn’t like the Indochina government because they were with Japan during the war. They
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The Vietnam war was a very confusing situation because people didn't know what to believe. There were definitely both positive and negative aspects, however most were negative. The United States didn't want other nations to fall to communism due to the domino theory, but was it worth bombing and killing civilians or worth soldiers fighting for a cause and no being acknowledged for what they did. The worst part was that while all this was going on, the government wanted people to believe this was
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The reminisce of war has a lasting effect on every society involved. We can point the blame of that war at both parties involved, but the ultimate negligence is the country that enters another country; destroys its future for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and leaves without worry of survivability of everyone involved. All aspects of war and the methods used to win that war can be very bitter and have a lasting effect on not just the countries fighting that war but also the generations
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