the Vietnam War and Information Learning target: List and explain how Truman‚ Eisenhower‚ and Kennedy react to key events in Vietnam. Vietnam declares independence‚ 1945 On September 2‚ Ho Chi Minh leader of the Vietnamese independence movement‚ quoted the Declaration of Independence when he declared Vietnamese independence from foreign rule‚ members of this independence movement. Us Military aiud to French Indochina 1950 1954 persident truman‚ seeing the First Indochina War as a
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the 1960’s and 1970’s‚ Cambodia was involved in a civil war and the Vietnam War simultaneously. On March 18‚ 1969‚ Operation Menu was executed by President Richard Nixon. This was a secret bombing campaign in eastern Cambodia whose objective was to bomb suspected communist bases‚ “American B-52s began carpet-bombing eastern Cambodia… was[this]the first course in a four-year bombing campaign that drew Cambodia headlong into the Vietnam War‚” (Caught in the Crossfire). American bombers killed Viet
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A war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam began in 1954. The war was fought because the north wanted communism‚ and the south did not. The United States decided to get involved in the war. The United States became allies with South Vietnam‚ because they did not want communism to spread. I bet you’re wondering what is communism and why a nation will break apart and fight because of it. Well communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx‚ advocating class war and leading to a society in
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Wood Grouse on a High Promontory Overlooking Canada I Is it possible for a war to change your personality for the rest of your life? People do lots of bad things‚ but killing other human beings is probably the worst. Coming home from war can be a hard thing for even the bravest and strongest man‚ it leaves you with all kind of fears‚ many soldiers don’t even know that they have killed people‚ because their mind won’t accept the fact that they have done these terrible thing. This may lead to depressions
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Vietnam Fact Sheet After World War II‚ the United States was still playing tug of war with Communism. The enemy was China and the USSR‚ it soon gained the name “cold war”‚ as they were trying to keep Communism at bay‚ and try to spread the way of Democracy. As Communism was spreading‚ it had its eyes on a new victory; Vietnam. The US feared that if Vietnam was to fall to Communism‚ it would lead all of Southwest Asia to fall to Communism as well. The US described it as “falling dominoes”‚ which
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How did the opponents of the Vietnam War affect the Vietnam Era? “After a massive 250‚000 “March of Death” protest in Washington‚ the New Zealand and Australia peace movements decided to do the same. The first moratorium was held in 1970.” Impacts on Australia In Australia‚ resistance to the war was at first very limited‚ although the Australian Labor Party (in opposition for most of the period) steadfastly opposed conscription. However‚ anti-war sentiment escalated rapidly in the late 1960s as
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Vietnam was the longest war in American history and the most popular American war of the 20th century. It resulted in nearly 60‚000 American deaths and in 2 million Vietnamese deaths. Even today‚ many Americans still ask whether the American effort in Vietnam was necessary or whether it was a noble cause‚ if it failed to protect the South Vietnamese from totalitarian government. The Vietnam War fought between North Vietnam‚ supported by its communist allies‚ and South Vietnam‚ backed by the
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the Vietnam War took place over a span of decades and is rife with controversy. The war began after the preexisting relationship with the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh was put aside for fear of communism spreading in South-East Asia‚ and continued in a seemingly futile effort to keep the communists from gaining power. The war continued mostly due to a tangled web of political schemes‚ but finally ended due to mass public outcry and lack of success for either side. Before the war in Vietnam‚ America
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The Vietnam war had a huge effect on the outcomes of the Vietnamese people. According to the Migration Policy website‚ Vietnamese Immigration on the United States‚ Was small one prior to 1795‚ and it has grown a lot. And it has roughly been doubling every decade in 1980-2000. And it has been increasing 26 percent in 2000. And Vietnamese represented the sixth largest immigrant group in the country‚ and those who were born in Mexico‚ India ‚ China. Every year the Vietnamese Immigration has been growing
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The U.S.’s involvement in the Vietnam War is a highly controversial topic. George Kennan called the Vietnam War “the most disastrous of all America’s undertakings over the whole two hundred years of its history” because of great impact it had and left on America. Thousands of Americans were forced to fight and lost their lives. Some Americans believe it was the duty of the nation to defend other nations from the threat of Communism. Others believe it was not the U.S.’s place to get involved and that
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