As it can be seen‚ there was much conflict between the North & South in Vietnam. The question is what conflicts initiated the Cold War. The relationship between the both states already had difficulties from the beginning of time. In the South‚ they usually contained a smaller population than the North but were consequently growing as a group. As everyone knows that a great relationship has to be built by a trust‚ that was the one thing between the states they did not possess. Due to this‚ both
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development opportunities offered by what some analysts consider to be Asia’s newest economic "tiger." Structural problems do abound in Vietnam. Its underdeveloped economic infrastructure‚ a ponderous and pervasive government bureaucracy‚ and an embryonic legal system are but a few of them. But the country’s dynamism lies in its principle asset--its people. The population of Vietnam is young: 80 percent of its 73 million people are under the age of 40. They are also well educated‚ with an overall literacy rate
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The Secret Air War in Laos‚ 1968-69. It was written by Reginald Hawthorn and is his personal experience as a Major in the Air Force. I wanted to know an Air Force pilot’s perspective since I read about so much bombing going on during the Vietnam War. He was an FAC (Forward Air Controller) and flew an O-2 single prop airplane during Vietnam from 1968-1969. Major Reginald Hathorn was an instructor at Laughlin Air Force Base when he got the call on Friday of January 1968 that he would have to leave
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Brief summary The Vietnam War commonly known as the Second Indochina War began as a conflict in 1959‚ after five years of the division of the country by the Geneva Accords. The United States and other members of the SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) joined forces with South Vietnam in contesting communist forces comprised of South Vietnamese supporters of the communist National Liberation Front known as Viet Cong (VC)‚ and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). In addition‚ the North had benefited
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War is always a controversial topic whenever it is discussed in a political setting‚ or even a private conversation between friends. No War has ever been a more controversial than the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was the longest War the nation has ever engaged in. The United States entered the war in 1961 and pulled out in 1975. Although the death toll did not reach as high as the civil war‚ or either World War One‚ or World War two. The Nation still lost over fifty thousand soldiers in the deadly
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Eisenhower 1953-1961 Eisenhower was the first president to go head first into the Vietnam conflicts. Eisenhower did not support the Geneva Accords signed by France and Vietnam in the summer of 1954. The Accord made the 17th parallel dividing the country of Vietnam to north and south section until two years when they would hold a free election for all of the country. Eisenhower and his secretary of state John Foster Dulles believed that the agreement gave the communist too much power in
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The United States involvement in Vietnam started out as simply a way to support the new leader of South Vietnam‚ Ngo Dunh Diem in the late 1950’s. As time passed‚ the US was drawn deeper into the unstable politics of this unstable new nation. In 1960‚ the Vietminh started an armed struggle for national unification. Under orders from Hanoi‚ the Vietminh soldiers created the National LIberation front (NLF) and had both materials and manpower support from North Vietnam to begin military operation in
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The South Vietnamese began to supply more and more of their troops. This was called Vietnamization. After Nixon announced a new eight point plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam the process began and by 1972 almost all American troop were out. Only 1500 North Vietnam civilians were killed during the entire war but Senator George McGovern lied to NBC and said that it was the most murderous aerial bombardment in the history of the world. In the fall of 1969 the Pentagon revealed that during the
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How effective were the us tactics of search and destroy and defoliation in the Vietnam war? During the Vietnam War‚ the tactic of Search and destroy was overall - an ineffective tactic to use. Though the tactic of search and destroy did manage to achieve some minor successes‚ the overall outcome achieved the complete opposite of the US government’s goal which was merely to prevent the spread of communism. The reason search and destroy was used was because of many things. The major cause for the
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much more a political activist whose strong will was directed at the goal of the independence and unification of Vietnam.” (Kirkpatrick‚ 2006) Lecture and readings have taught us that Ho Chi Minh was charismatic and hard to hate‚ even though he was responsible for the death of thousands of his own men. He portrayed himself as simple and passionate. He wanted independence but sold out Vietnam when he didn’t get his way. He then became known as the “fascist with the human face”. He wanted to have a unified
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