basically directed the war from 1965 to 1968. For this reason‚ in Vietnam today it is known as the American War. It was supposed to be reunited under a single election in 1956‚ however‚ the United States did not want the country to become communist. They had helped Ngo Dinh Diem get elected in
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its climax in 1968‚ lasting through the entirety through the waning years of the war. What incentives were common to all of these people? Not many. Most of these groups had independent interests‚ representing political‚ racial and cultural spheres of influence. To put the movement in perspective‚ however‚ it is essential to examine the unifying themes of the protest in its ties to the domestic politics and social consequences from1968‚
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and costly‚ with many casualties on both sides. During the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson‚ the US was heavily involved in the Vietnam War. Several significant events occurred in the 1960s‚ including the Tonkin Incident‚ the Tet Offensive‚ and a counterculture movement domestically in the United States.
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the Strategies used by the opposing sides in the Second Indochina War (1965-1973). Why was it inevitable that the South (USA and Republic of Vietnam) would be defeated?It was inevitable that the USA and the Republic of Vietnam would be defeated in the Second Indochina war of 1965-1973 because of the effective strategies used by the North‚ with the use of Guerrilla warfare and the Ho Chin Minh trail. The south was defeated because their tactics like using conventional
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The Vietnam war was an armed conflict‚ lasting from 1963 to 1973‚ during which America and the Capitalist South Vietnamese Army fought against the communist resistance group‚ the Vietcong. Although America was far wealthier and technologically superior at this point‚ all their military might could not defeat the nation of Vietnamese peasants which formed the Vietcong. Part of the reason for the Vietcong’s success is due to each party’s reason for their involvement. America fought to prevent The
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North Vietnam. The Vietnam War consisted of several battles within Vietnam and the surrounding area of Laos and Cambodia. The battles further included air raids over North Vietnam. The Battle of Ap Bac is the first major battle followed by the Tet Offensive‚ the Fall of Saigon and ended with the Battle of Xuan Loc.
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Johnson Vietnam War New president Lyndon B. Johnson inherited a difficult situation in Vietnam‚ as the South Vietnamese government was in shambles and the Viet Cong was making large gains in rural areas of the South. Although Johnson billed himself as a tough anti-Communist‚ he pledged to honor Kennedy’s limited troop commitments in Vietnam. The ensuing political instability in South Vietnam persuaded Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to further increase U.S. military and
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Capturing the USS Pueblo was a compelling time in history. On January 23‚ 1968 the USS Pueblo was spotted in the international waters by the North Koreans. As gunshots were fired at the commanders of the Pueblo‚ the other Americans on the USS tried but failed to escape. In the the attempt to kill the commanders‚ many others got wounded. The members of the Pueblo were charged and brought to prison for spying to close to the North Korean border. North Koreans made all of the Pueblo members involved
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The Vietnam War began in 1954 after the rise of the communist party in North Vietnam and continued throughout the 50’s and 60’s. As the Cold War intensified‚ America strengthened their policies against the Soviet Union and anyone who was allied with them and in 1955 President Eisenhower pledged to support South Vietnam and Diem‚ their leader. Diem was a dictator who found anyone who sympathized with the North Vietnamese and tortured and executed them. In 1961 President Kennedy sent a team to build
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villages being destroyed‚ Vietnamese children burning to death‚ and American body bags being sent home” (McLaughlin‚ 2012). Although Americans and the media initially supported the war‚ that all changed after the Tet Offensive that occurred in the early morning hours of January 30‚ 1968. Political leaders had continually told the public that American and South Vietnamese forces had successfully disabled communist forces‚ rendering them incapable of launching a massive attack. The communists proved
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