For years‚ America’s finest fought to help preserve a sovereign communist free country. The United States had different strategies throughout the war in Vietnam. The initial strategy was to just contain the communist from the North and preserve the south with training the South Vietnamese. Many strategies failed in the Vietnam War. The south’s unstable government made it difficult for the United States to devise a sound strategy. The United States also used Operation Rolling Thunder. It was
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French Colonialism greatly influenced the Viet Minh to seek Change. The Viet Minh wanted independence for Vietnam. Their attempts were made to achieve independence in 1945 with the battle of Cao Bang which then grew to the battle of DBP. These actions had significant consequences such as enormous loss of life‚ French Surrender and the independence for North Vietnam French Colonialism influenced the VM to seek independence for their nation. Colonialism is the ‘Outworking’ desire of a nation to
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When assessing the importance of the Viet Cong (VC) in the Communist victory‚ one cannot look past the unity‚ discipline and effective organisation in the vanguard of the VC forces. The Viet Cong were made up of volunteer servicemen who traveled to South Vietnam as Autumn Cadres - ready to exploit the coming political harvest. The central purpose of the Viet Cong campaigns was to polarise the population‚ to divide it irrevocably from the GVN‚ and to mobilise it for service and sacrifice in support
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hundreds of lives had taken away by the typhoon. My hometown‚ Quang Ngai‚ was badly affected by this natural calamity since it was also in the central part of Vietnam. My father‚ a successful businessman‚ was a director of a charity organization in Ho Chi Minh City. With that incident‚ my father knew that he could not turn his back to the people that needed his help. He formed a group of young people who were passionate in helping those people in the central coast. As a young kid who was full of
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“The Details of Military Life in Vietnam in Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’” “The Things They Carried” is a story based on the experiences of young American soldiers fighting during the Vietnam War. The story begins giving you insight into the thoughts of the soldiers‚ describing to you what they humped along with them through their walk in the deep jungle of Vietnam. Some of those things were necessities “P-38 can openers‚ pocket knives‚ heat tabs‚ wristwatches‚ dog tags‚ mosquito
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Reality of the Vietnam War During the Vietnam War the reality of warfare brought many soldiers back to a home that didn’t want them. Their feelings torn by atrocities‚ the loss of friends‚ and the condition of loneliness only made the experience worse. Did the issues on the home front affect the issues on the frontline? The novel Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers is a perfect example of the conflict and diversity among other soldiers during the Vietnam War. It shows the reality many soldiers
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Why did the Vietnam War really start? Why was the United States fighting? Did it have something to do with the Domino Theory? All of these were questions Tim O’Brien had in “On the Rainy River.” O’Brien was an average young adult who had a job and a family and who did not really care about the Vietnam War that was going on. On day‚ O’Brien received a draft notice and all his thoughts on the war changed‚ but not in a good way. He hated the war so much that he went up to the northern tip of Minnesota
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Harry Truman had helped provide economic aid to France after Vietnam had gotten their independence from them because he wanted to contain communism. He also provided aid to countries like Turkey and Greece. However‚ despite the support from the United States France lost their battle against communism in Indochina. This led to the Geneva Accords which divided Vietnam in the 17th parallel. This was put in place trying to keep peace in Indochina‚ but it only angered Minh because the Soviets and China
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“KHMER ROUGE” were the followers of the communist party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. It was formed in 1968 as a result of the Vietnam People’s Army from North Vietnam. The Khmer Rouge was expanding more and more and at one point of time it controlled the entire country. USA began training the troops in South Vietnam. The general to Prince Norodom Silhanouk‚ Nixon‚ started bombing B-52 at South Vietnam. Seeing the Lon Nol‚ American general ended monarchy and established Khmer Republic in Cambodia. But
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Music has been a universal language‚a form of expression since cavemen were plunking strings on sticks. evolving with The ages with new genres and instruments to further the possibilities ‚ from classical to jazz‚ blues‚rock‚ and of course metal..we came a long way since then and undeniably one of the most crucial time periods of music‚ leading to the music evolution into the music we hear today‚ especially for rock fans like myself‚ is the 1960’s. America during the 1960’s was a time a change‚
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