destroyed‚ Vietnamese children burning to death‚ and American body bags being sent home. At the beginning the media coverage generally supported U.S involvement in the war‚ but television news dramatically changed its frame of the war after the Tet Offensive. Images of the U.S led massacre at My Lai dominated the television‚ yet the horrific things that were committed by North Vietnam and the VC rarely made the evening news. Celebrities added to this by singing songs about the war such as Elton John
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Vietnam War During the time of 1959 to 1975‚ The United States had entered in a controversial conflict and war with Vietnam. There were hidden controversies that lay beneath the Vietnam War about whether it was worth fighting. Some views suggest that it should have not been considered a war. President Kennedy had plans to remove all troops in Vietnam up until his tragic death‚ whereas President Johnson‚ when becoming head of office‚ had plans to hold off any of North Vietnams attacks on the South
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The French colonization of Indochina‚ consisting of Vietnam‚ Laos and Cambodia was over‚ when Laos became a French protectorate in 1893. The Second World War opened new avenues for anti-colonial movements in Southeast Asia. On the wake of the Japanese occupation of Indochina‚ the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) set up Vietnam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi (League for the Independence of Vietnam) or Viet Minh. He gave the call in August 1945 to liberate Vietnam and Hanoi was occupied. The
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The Vietnam War is viewed by the majority as one of the worst periods in American history. The Americans moved into Vietnam in 1954 under the pretence of fighting against an "evil and aggressive Communist regime"1. The government stated the Domino Theory as a reason for involving themselves in someone else’s war‚ whereby if America did not stop Vietnam from falling to Communism then other countries would follow‚ and American liberty‚ free enterprise and security would be put at risk. It is hard to
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beamed into every living room up and down the United States of the disaster of the Tet Offensive. Seeing a highly organised‚ unified opposition of Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops storm the American Embassy in Saigon‚ put pay to General Westmoreland’s claims that America were going to be victorious in the war‚ and that the American Army could see “light at the end of the tunnel9”. Isolated incidents like the Tet Offensive contributed to the loss in the war for America‚ in America‚ as well as 8568 miles
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be futile”.9 Giap’s army developed a tolerance for this dragged out war and took on the approach of slowly draining the US moral. By studying and learning the strategies and tactics of the opposition Giap was able to predict landing spots and offensive movements‚ which allowed large scale ambushes and attacks that had US military confused. The NVA also used the well cut out Ho Chi Minh trail which kept supplies and communication effective between the north and the south making planned attacks
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the year‚ which is the first new moon of the year‚ the beast would awaken and descend upon the village. The Vietnamese lunar New Year festival‚ Tet Nguyen Dan‚ is the most significant holiday taking place within the first three days of the New Year. The nearer New Year comes the more excited and enthusiastic people are. In general‚ preparation for Tet starts one week before New Year’s Day. The New Year’s cake New Year’s cake is a pastry made of the flour of glutinous rice and used primarily in
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Samantha Aurelio 31 March 2015 APUSH Cold War DBQ During the time period pertaining to the Cold War‚ the foreign policies and ideas established by each president remained in effect despite social and political unrest. However‚ United States’ involvement in the eastern hemisphere‚ governmental influence in the nation and in the “hot wars”‚ and presidential diplomacy caused foreign policies and ideas to contain many similarities throughout the duration of the Cold War. Therefore‚ the United States
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Study Guide 1. Truman foreign policy between 1945-1952- I-Aid to Greece and Turkey to defend against communist pressure S- Support free people resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. 2. U.S. economic expansion post-WWII- I-Savings from WWII‚ expansion defense spending‚ improved technology‚ baby boom‚ expansion of consumer society. 3. 1950’s Red Scare- I-Fear of communist spies undermining the gov’t and misdirecting foreign policy 4. American
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The Vietnam War Vietnam is a small country to the south of China (’Vietnamese’ means "non-Chinese people of the south"). In 111 BC‚ Vietnam became part of the Chinese Empire. For the next thousand years Vietnam struggled to gain its independence from its much larger neighbour. This was achieved in 938 AD. The long period of Chinese rule had left its mark on Vietnam. The language‚ religion‚ architecture‚ system of government and most other aspects of Vietnamese life‚ reflected the influence of the
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