The Significance of The Vietnam War Within one generation‚ The United States have experienced The Second World War‚ The Korean War and fifteen years of The Cold War crisis. The Vietnam War was the last drop into the cup of American patience. The costs of The Vietnam War were intolerable‚ because they contravened traditional American values and hopes. In the year 1965‚ American government announced‚ with public support‚ that America is going to win the guerilla war and defeat the "global communist
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The United States strategy in Vietnam from 1965 to 1968 went through various changes and revisions as leadership tried to find a feasible plan of action. US Army General William Westmoreland and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara were two of the major forces in US leadership that would shape the war effort. They devised a military strategy of attrition through tactics of search and destroy‚ covert operations‚ and other factors in hopes of wearing out the enemy. While their strategy found some success
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To what extent can the Vietnam War be considered a just war? Ziad Bayoumy IB Candidate Number: Word Count: 1512 Table of contents A. Planning the investigation 3 B. Summary of Evidence 4 C. Evaluation of Sources 5 D. Analysis 6 E. Conclusion 8 F. List of Sources 9 A - Planning the investigation [157]: The focus of this investigation is the theory or concept of just war‚ and what makes a just war “Just.” This investigation will explore
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Australia in The Vietnam War A written report that evaluates the usefulness‚ reliability and perspective of a given website. 1. How useful is this site for learning about: Why was Australia involved in the Vietnam War? The site’s provides background information on why Australia was involved in the Vietnam War‚ it does go on to explain that “The South Vietnamese government sought assistance from the United States and her regional ally”.‚ which supplies the reader with the information about
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CBA The Vietnam war was a very horrible. This war took place in Vietnam‚ Cambodia‚ and Laos. Viet Cong‚ against South Vietnam and its principal ally‚ the United States. This war was for because communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia. The Vietnam war went from November 1‚ 1955 to April 30‚ 1975. This conflict couldn’t have been avoided. More like South Vietnam could not have avoided it. The US could have avoided the Vietnam War. We could have avoided it by not helping South
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Before the Vietnam War‚ there was the Civil Rights movement. A movement dedicated to to gain equal right for all. One major difference that was discovered to be preventing racial equality was income. As white families lived in their mail-order homes‚ people of color struggled with making enough money to make ends meet. This realization is what caused the president‚ Lyndon B. Johnson‚ to take action. Since the President believed in equal right‚ and after he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ he
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PTSD in the Vietnam War The Vietnam War was considered one of the bloodiest battles ever in the history of the United States. Not only were soldiers harmed physically during the war‚ but they were also wounded mentally. There are endless accounts of soldiers leaving the war and coming home not just with bullet wounds‚ but the memories that followed with it. These memories caused soldiers to not sleep at night and in some cases ruining their lives and forcing them to suicide. After the war‚ specialists
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The book I read was titled Here There are Tigers‚ 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
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Vietnam war was the longest war in American History which fought between 1964 to 1975 and the most unpopular war for the American of the 20th century. This is the only one war that United States lost the war but no one knows the truth because the US government had not told about this war yet. The resulted in nearly 60‚000 American deaths and in an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths. It seemed like the American won the war but actually they were not. The experience for the American soldier
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It will include information on what the huey did in the Vietnam War‚ some heroic pilot stories‚ and what happened to it after the Vietnam War. The huey was the first helicopter to be used in combat and is still used in the military today along with the police forces‚ coast guard‚ hospitals‚ national guard‚ and civilian private aircraft. The huey’s design was made and started production in 1960 and was finished by 1962. In the Vietnam War‚ the huey was used for mainly troop carrying and medical evacuations
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