frame of the war after the Tet Offensive. Images of the U.S led massacre at My Lai dominated the television‚ yet the daily atrocities committed by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong rarely made the evening news. Moreover‚ the anti-war movement at home gained increasing media attention while the U.S soldier was forgotten in Vietnam. There was a stable build up of US military support activity in Vietnam during the period 1954 to
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government‚ they turned to the media to give them information that their government otherwise would not. The growth of television news reporting‚ the media’s misguided reports on the Tet Offensive
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that the end of the war was in sight‚ as the Communists could not possibly replace the men they had lost. But the ambitious Tet Offensive‚ a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam that on January 31‚ 1968 (the lunar new year) disproved Westmoreland’s claims of progress. Though U.S. and South Vietnamese forces managed to repel the Tet attacks‚ it was clear the war was far from
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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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The Vietnam War is one of the most important conflicts in American history. The Vietnam War is a turning point in America because it is an example of American interventionism. The US had been involved in both World Wars; however‚ the US arrived later to both of those conflicts‚ and was less interested in spreading its influence. The threat and fear of Communism became a factor within American foreign policy. Not only did it have a long-lasting impact on foreign policy‚ but it had a permanent effect
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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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