The Vietnam War‚ this war raged from 1955 to 1975. Many opposed the war they were known as “hippies”. The war helped empower the hippy movement and made it stronger then ever. Let’s explore what started the war‚ how it shaped America and why it was such a big deal. What caused this war? It was the drive to get power and stop communism. America believed all Communism was bad and should be abolished while the Soviets believed it was great and should be used everywhere. North vietnam supported the
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board‚ but the sports weren’t the only thing that was happening in the 60s the Vietnam war and the Civil war was going on also racism was going on at the time to. Sports were a popular thing during the 60s there was baseball‚ football‚ and track was going on but there was other things going on with 1960 through 1969. The Vietnam War and Civil Rights were going on in the 1960s. The Vietnam War was the longest war in United States history. Promises and
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During the progress of the Vietnam War‚ multiple men served as President of the United States of America. However‚ Dwight D. Eisenhower‚ Lyndon B. Johnson‚ and Richard Nixon were the presidents that had the greatest impact. They created many policies that affected the outcome of the war. One of these presidents has even been blamed for causing the most hardships‚ which eventually resulted in the United States being involved in a war they could not win‚ but could not afford to lose. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
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events. Wilson has done this through inspiring the Vietnam War through his ideas.The wilson created idea that inspired the war was Moral Diplomacy. It was a concept that wilson used during his presidency that called for U.S to share it’s values to the world. The whole point of the war was to give vietnam the value of capitalism. If Woodrow Wilson never had the idea of Moral Diplomacy if he didn’t have that idea people would be like leave vietnam alone because before Wilson the U.S was isolationist
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In 1965‚ Joe Skoczen had decided‚ when he was twenty years old‚ to volunteer to fight for our country during the Vietnam War era. He had wanted to join the army‚ but his friend‚ Jack McSweeney‚ wanted to join the Marine Corps Reserves. It was decided over a game of pinball which branch the men would enter‚ and Joe lost‚ meaning they would both join the Marines. On the first day‚ volunteers and those drafted‚ including Joe and Jack‚ were put onto an old‚ decrepit plane set out for Parris Island
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Just imagine you went to war‚ having killed people‚ seeing friends and enemies die‚ and living in fear of dying yourself. Think about how you must have felt if you had to sneak your way back into our country‚ with nothing said and you had to just pretend nothing happened and start all over. For many veterans‚ returning home has been a distressing and apprehensive experience. Even though the veterans were trained for the intensity of the duties‚ the training may have not prepared them for the emotional
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the world. When the war with Vietnam occurs‚ America made a maximum military effort‚ with every sort of atomic bombs. When the United States fought in Vietnam‚ it was organized modern technology against organized human beings. The Vietnam war was the most unpopular war America ever had. As the result‚ of its negative affect on the United States. After the revolution in Indochina‚ the France decided to go back to Indochina to see if they can keep as they were before. The war lasted Seven years and
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Why did the US enter the Vietnam War? The Vietnam War was fought during the cold war on 1 November 1955 - 30 April 1975. The Vietnam War was a war fought between the North and South Vietnam mainly‚ but in later year the US would join in to help South Vietnam ward off the communist mind of Ho Chi Minh and North Vietnam. The Vietnam today is no longer called a war in fact no war since World War I and II have been wars. Instances like Vietnam have merely been police interference or police actions
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The Vietnam war was a long and costly conflict that affected the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally‚ the United States. An image that is striking and important in this time period is of the aftermath the napalm bomb caused to a Vietnamese village. It is a historically important image because the idea of war and its terror is shown. I chose this image because it is striking and catches the eyes of the viewer. It brings out the idea that a bomb can drop
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During the Vietnam War‚ the United States became involved with Vietnam because America was worried about communism spreading around the world and wanted to contain communism. President Truman decided to support France since he thought French troops would make the French economy more stable. For this reason‚ Truman gave the French some money to help their economy. When President Eisenhower became President‚ he believed in what was named the Domino Theory. The Domino Theory is the belief that if one
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