heard news of Viet Cong members dressing as kids and civilians and lighting squads up. I heard orders to kill anyone in the villages because they didn’t know who was Viet Cong and who wasn’t. Not only did they kill them‚ but we raped and pillaged their villages. I watched it being broadcasted back to America‚ and by the next day the people were sick of
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List of Top 10 Endangered Animal Species in Asia Ten Endangered Species in Asia As the largest‚ most populated and fastest growing continent on Earth‚ Asia may be the region of the world where the most animal species face extinction due to conflicts with humans. The rapid development of land for use by humans all over Asia poses a serious threat to many animal species‚ and many Asian governments do too little too late to protect their own environments. There are some areas of improved awareness
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Nguyen Sinh Cung‚ founding father of Vietnam‚ and extreme communist leader was a man who made an impact on history. Better know as his most common alias Ho Chi Minh this man decided to change the world. Ho Chi Minh was a man who led his country to freedom. He freed the Vietnamese from rule under European countries‚ and became the first leader of Vietnam. Under this rule he imposed a communist system of government. In this system‚ Ho Chi Minh caused anger among Vietnam and other nations. Fear of death
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with a chapter added bringing the story up to 1968. Joseph Buttinger‚ A Dragon Defiant: A Short History of Vietnam. New York: Praeger‚ 1972. 147 pp. Cao Huy Thuan‚ Les missionnaires et la politique coloniale Française au Vietnam (1857–1914). Lac Viet Series‚ no. 13. New Haven: Yale Center for International and Area Studies‚ 1990. 420 pp. Descours-Gatin Chant‚ Quand l’opium finançait la colonisation en Indochine. Paris: l’Harmattan‚ 2000. Oscar Chapuis‚ The Last Emperors of Vietnam: From Tu
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the Vietnam War‚ I researched the effects of guerrilla warfare on soldiers physically as well as psychologically. Furthermore‚ I also researched the types of ways the Viet Congs used guerrilla warfare such as tactics‚ booby traps‚ and the element of surprise. The effects of guerrilla warfare were seen in different battles where the Viet Congs prevailed and won with the use of those techniques. In conclusion‚ guerrilla warfare was not the only cause for the win in the Vietnam War but it was a large
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The Tet Offensive was unquestionably the biggest occurrence of the Vietnam War. While the military success of the Viet Cong in mounting a sustained revolt in cities across South Vietnam was virtually non-existent‚ the psychological impact it had on the American public was quite simply phenomenal. This effect was partially due to the reporting of the war by the media. To completely understand the impacts of Tet‚ we must first understand the goals of Tet. The execution of Tet was a failure on the
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fully understand how hard war was. The battle at Chu Lai was one of the first wins for the US Marines against the Viet Cong and will be remembered as a turning point in the war. Gregg Frikken was a veteran that fought in this battle. Frikken remembered‚ “On April 12th... we landed on the beach at Chu Lai‚ South Vietnam. We’re out in the 196 Light Infantry Brigade task force ord. The Viet Cong figured‚ with the Marines gone‚ they were gonna take Chu Lai‚ and they didn’t take it cuz it was a day and
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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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him to find out if there still exists a bridge between him as a Viet-American and his homeland. Pham travels to Vietnam to search for his roots in hopes to construct his identity. For Pham in the search of his identity he flies to Vietnam to ride his bike‚ and also to find his roots. As he first gets off the airplane he is already is immediately receiving dirty aware of others who looks at him disdainfully because he is a “viet-kieu” which means foreign Vietnamese. Then as he is at the baggage
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The United States involvement in the Vietnam War caused many unnecessary deaths. The United States used twenty million gallons of herbicides and many bombs to attack the Viet Cong (Rohn).American soldiers were fighting the Viet Cong in Vietnam. America destroyed crops from villages and reduced the wooded areas where the Viet Cong could hide very easily. The bombs used would not all go off at once because they were all created differently‚ some of these bombs were Agent Orange‚ Operation Linebacker
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