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 preparation
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The Vietnam War was a civil war‚ a war between the ideologies of capitalism and communism and a war that involved the great powers and their smaller allies‚ including Australia. The Australians were involved in the Vietnam War from 1962 until 1972. The main reasons that the Australians were involved were the fear of communism‚ the forward defence policy and Australia’s commitment of troops to the United States and the two alliance agreements. The main reason that made Australia involved in the Vietnam
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Grade 12. How did ideology fuel the Vietnam War? The Vietnam War was a battleground for opposing ideologies‚ a proxy war‚ and a holdover from the Second World War and the prewar conflicts. This escalated tensions between opposing the 2 opposing ideologiesof the world Capitalism held by America and the western world and communism held by the Soviets and Chinese The French had been a colonial ruling power in Indochina which comprised of what was to be Vietnam‚ Laos‚ and Cambodia in the 1800s.France
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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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Why did the U.S enter the Vietnam War? Background: Much of Vietnam was occupied by France before ww2‚ but these French territories were lost during the War as the Japanese set up a puppet regime in this time. The French tried to regain their former territories around the Early 50s‚ but failed in their attempt as they were defeated by the Communist general Vo Nguyen Giap. They left behind them a buffer zone splitting the North and South of Vietnam. After French troops had withdrawn the Vietnamese
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Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War was the longest war in Australia’s history. From the time Australia arrived at Vietnam in 1962 almost 60 000 Australians served in the war. 521 had died from the war and over 3000 were wounded. The war was the greatest social and political dispute since the referendums of World War 1. During the war it started to show that the attitudes towards the Vietnam War started to change in Australia. Propaganda started to spread in Australia about being part of
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the skull and all their shrinking black light glazed over by death” (Silko 7). True men do not suffer from the ghosts of war. Manliness condones this behavior in soldiers after World War II. In Silko’s Ceremony¸ she analyzes standard of manliness set for the soldiers suffering from PTSD compared to the standards set at the time. Just as in the past‚ the men who suffer from war are not seen as manly. One example‚ stated above‚ is when Tayo observes the execution
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public distaste for the Vietnam War had a huge effect on the cold War and Proxy war. Richard Nixon was elected President after promising that he end the war honorably and get our troops home. The Vietnam War left a lasting effect on how proxy wars are conducted today. The US is today more likely to just provide aid and assistance rather than sending in ground forces as proxies (Trueman‚ 2017). The reluctance of the US to send ground troops to Syria during its civil war is proof that the US has
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United States Learned from the Vietnam War The United States made lots of mistakes in Vietnam. It stayed too long in the war‚ it failed to gather intelligence that could have saved lives‚ and we made rash decisions regarding the public’s reaction to us being there. The United States‚ at the most part‚ ignored these lessons as we continued some years later to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. But one mistake we did learn from was the allowance of free media in the war zone‚ and how never to do
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In order to understand war one needs to understand the perspective of both sides of the war. The Vietnam War divided the people of the United States into two different groups. The doves were the people who didn’t want the war. They viewed the war as a waste of money on the part of the United States. The doves thought the Vietnam War was a civil war and the people of Vietnam should be solving their disputes without our help. They organized many protests about the war. The doves argued that the
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