1954‚ the French‚ who had control of South Vietnam‚ attempted to take control of North Vietnam‚ which was a Communist country. After a few years of fighting‚ the French retreated and the United States joined the war. The United States wanted to fight against Communism in North Vietnam‚ so they supported South Vietnam. With the help of the Hmong people and the Laotian government‚ the United States fought against North Vietnam for several years. As the war dragged on‚ the United States eventually withdrew
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nation in such controversial turmoil as the Vietnam War. With an American death toll of almost 60‚000 troops‚ the Vietnam War has gone down in infamy as one of the most tremendous struggles Americans have faced both overseas and on the home front. Because of the tumultuous controversies caused by the war‚ Americans split into two social factions – those against the war and those who supported it. During the years of 1961-1975 - the era in which the war had its greatest effect on Americans - the
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During the Vietnam War era‚ the United States and other democratic and free nations were fearful of communism spreading to more parts of the world. They fought two world wars to protect freedom‚ and to contain the communist movements. The foreign policy of the United States evolved to that of a pre-emptive type strike on the possibility of communism surfacing and threatening free countries. Harry S. Truman began to theorize that if a communist nation took over a non-communist state‚ then neighboring
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The Cold War was the conflict between the two superpowers of the world‚ the democratic republic of the United States of America and the communist government of the Soviet Union. From 1947 until the 1990s the two superpowers fought each other for leverage and jurisdiction of the world. The relationship between the superpowers had been strained before The Cold War because tensions between the United States and Soviet Union had been lasting since 1917 with the start of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia
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opinion during the Vietnam War. This was one of the first major wars being covered by the media; television had become something very familiar to the public sin the beginning of World War II. At the end of the war‚ it began to be manufactured in large-scale. In the 1950s‚ only 9% of Americans owned a television but in 1966‚ this number rose dramatically to 93%. Therefore‚ we can that television had become the most important source of news for American people during the Vietnam War. Along with the
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Vietnam Wars Impact on American Culture Donna Whittle DeVry University Introduction to Humanities I. Introduction and Thesis Statement In the 1960’s America went through many cultural changes. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ a civil rights activist‚ delivered his famous‚ “I have a dream” speech. African Americans were fighting for peace‚ freedom and equality. The United States was involved in the Vietnam War‚ committed to anti-communism. African Americans were deployed to Vietnam
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The Korean and Vietnam war are very similar in that both were the US’s attempt to fight communism by waging war in a distant third world country. Both wars were unpopular in the US and both led to a lack of victory. In fact‚ remarkable similarities exist between the Korean War and the Vietnam War; from the US support of a dictatorial and corrupt anti-communist regime to its conception of communism as a monolithic entity‚ under which all communist nations were necessarily allies‚ rather than individuals
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In the melting pot of cultures in the United States‚ Hmong people are among the most misunderstood and enigmatic ethnic groups. Throughout history‚ during the most uneasy and difficult time‚ when Laos experienced civil war in the 1950s and 1960s‚ the Hmong sided with the government‚ fearing a communist regime would disrupt their independence. The Vietnam War resulted in the Hmong to siding with the United States to oppose Vietnamese and Laotian communists‚ lose a huge percent of their population
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How far do you agree with conservative claims that “the news media helped America lose the war in Vietnam”? The news media was very important during the Vietnam War because due to the advent of television news reporting‚ it was the first war in history where civilians at the home front got to witness the atrocities in the battlefield instead of reading or hearing about it from the newspapers and the radio. At a time where dissent had been legitimised by the Civil Rights Movement in America and
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Social‚ Economic and Political Effects of the War. The controversial Vietnam War had a huge impact on Australian society in the 1960’s/1970’s. It affected all aspects of society‚ such as the social‚ economic and political issues. Vietnam was known as a ’TV War’. A lot of violent and gruesome footage of the war was broadcasted right into people’s homes. People felt the need to report their own opinions and a very biased view of the war‚ they were not concerned with the thoughts of the Vietnamese
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