helped shape modern world history by changing the minds of millions of people on how they felt and viewed the war. The purpose of the war was to stop the spread of communism which led to many negative outcomes such as students protesting‚ the Tet offensive‚ a severely damaged U.S. economy‚ and millions of lives lost or wounded. After WWII in 1945‚ France wanted to regain control over Southeast Asia’s colonies. They were fighting Ho Chi Minh and his communist rebels. This started the French War in
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This is evident in the Tet Offensive and the My Lai Massacre. The former was a North Vietnamese strategized attack on the South’s most important cities and provinces. Shortly after capturing the capital of South Vietnam‚ Saigon‚ the United States managed to defeat the Northern troops
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I chose to write about the confrontations in Cuba and the Vietnam War. The confrontation in Cuba began as the result of the Soviet Union placing nuclear missiles in Cuba. The Soviet Union was responding to President Kennedy ’s rearmament program. At the time‚ the United States (U.S.) was the dominant superpower and the Soviet Union wanted to restore the balance of power by placing nuclear weapons within range of every major American city. Only 90 miles off the Florida coast‚ Cuba was the perfect
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"Overcoming Survivor ’s Guilt." http://ezinearticles.com. Web. 21 May 2010. <http://ezinearticles.com/?Overcoming-Survivors-Guilt&id=423998>. Woods‚ Alan. "The Tet Offensive: the turning point in the Vietnam War – Part One." http://www.marxist.com. 30 Jan. 2008. Web. 21 May 2010. <http://www.marxist.com/tet-offensive-part-one.htm>. "The Bitter End." http://www.historyplace.com. Web. 21 May 2010. <http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html>. "The Postwar
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* *My Lai- a village in the northern section of South Vietnam where more than 200 unarmed civilians‚ including women & children‚ were massacred by US troops in May 1968. * *The Pentagon Papers- a 7‚000 page document that was leaked to the press in 1971 by the former Defense Department worker *Daniel Ellsberg- revealing that the US govt had not been honest about its intentions in the Vietnam War. * -16
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The Battle for Hue was a month long battle that was part of the Tet-68 offensive and said to be a major turning point in the Vietnam War. The Battle for Hue‚ just like the beginning of the Tet-68 offensive took everyone by surprise for it occurred on Jan 31‚ 1968 during the beginning of the lunar new year one of Vietnamese’s most scared holidays. It was surprising because there was an official cease-fire that was called to celebrate Tet. The city of Hue was an ancient capital city and a gem of Indochina
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the press‚ allowing media to cover the war as they saw it. Without censorship‚ appalling images enabled the public to see war‚ as they never had before. Many people believe that it was the media that sparked the lack of support for the war. The Tet Offensive‚ for example‚ would become one of the most controversial and climactic events in which the media played a role. Up to that point‚ the media had portrayed the U.S. as winning the war. When the North Vietnamese sprung an attack on the U.S. embassy
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global powers‚ the USSR and China. U.S. citizens first thought that a “Ultra wealthy superpower would have few problems defeating a Third World nation.” By 1967‚ the U.S. had 500‚000 soldiers stationed in Vietnam‚ and the casualty number was 15‚058. In 1968‚ 562 U.S. soldiers were killed in just one week. With soldiers coming home from the war came along stories of massacres committed by American troops. The most infamous was the My Lai Massacre‚ where U.S. soldiers killed unarmed northern Vietnamese
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Explain why the United States left Vietnam A culmination of problems within Vietnam‚ domestically and internationally forced the United States to leave the nation. The key reasons for withdrawal were bulging economic costs‚ an increasingly impatient home front‚ an underestimation of North Vietnamese ideology‚ events which turned the war and ineffective strategies. The United States was left in an unpleasant situation. The French President‚ Charles de Gaulle‚ had warned the US against its Vietnam
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Why did the US lose the war in Vietnam? Answer with reference to the concept of insurgency/guerrilla warfare. The longest war in the history of the United States of America has taken place in Vietnam during the Cold War. “The US fear of a communist Europe led them to intervene in a war that was not seen in a vital importance or that would not be in the country`s interest to gain any advantage” (Bernstein 1987/8‚ p. 86). One of the main reasons why the US lost the war in Vietnam was the lack of
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