effect around the world. The United States began sending financial aid and military advisors to South Vietnam to help stop a communist takeover. North Vietnam was run by communist leader Ho Chi Minh‚ and the South had a non-communist government. An election to unify Vietnam would be held in 1955‚ fearing that Ho Chi Minh would win the elections South Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem refused to hold an election that would unify the country. With the support of the United States South Vietnam and North
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to many negative outcomes such as students protesting‚ the Tet offensive‚ a severely damaged U.S. economy‚ and millions of lives lost or wounded. After WWII in 1945‚ France wanted to regain control over Southeast Asia’s colonies. They were fighting Ho Chi Minh and his communist rebels. This started the French War in Indochina which led to the American escalation in Vietnam. President Eisenhower suggested that the fall
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The Vietnam War War affects millions of people in different ways everyday. The United States government involvement in the Vietnam War only led to millions more deaths of american and vietamese people. The United States started sending military around 1957 to assist the south vietemese army known as the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. By the time the United States government withdrew there men they left vietnamin an even worse condition then when they arrived. The United States government should
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as B52 bombers to bombard the Ho Chi Minh trail in an attempt to obliterate all industrial and major transportation targets as fast as possible‚ with the hope that this would sink the morale of the Viet Cong and make the people afraid of the Americans; in turn disheartening them. However‚ although it managed to disrupt the flow of supplies‚ extensive aerial bombing did not prevent the North Vietnamese from moving hundreds of tons of war supplies per day down the Ho Chi Minh Trail - which ran from
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A critical analysis of the operational performance of General Vo Nguyen Giap 1940–1954 Major Stuart Pascoe‚ Australian Army The struggle must build‚ however slowly. The way to win is by small defeats‚ one after another until the coup de grace.1 Vo Nguyen Giap Introduction 1. General Vo Nguyen Giap has been described as one of the most successful Generals of the 20th century‚2 and his ultimate success certainly supports this. His campaign began with no more than academic support for a communist
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The Vietnam War Vietnam is a small country to the south of China (’Vietnamese’ means "non-Chinese people of the south"). In 111 BC‚ Vietnam became part of the Chinese Empire. For the next thousand years Vietnam struggled to gain its independence from its much larger neighbour. This was achieved in 938 AD. The long period of Chinese rule had left its mark on Vietnam. The language‚ religion‚ architecture‚ system of government and most other aspects of Vietnamese life‚ reflected the influence of the
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Da Nang (Đà Nẵng) is Vietnam’s third largest city‚ and is located on the South China Sea coast‚ midway between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and the largest city of Central Vietnam. The economic powerhouse of central Vietnam‚ it combines the buzz of a bigger city with beautiful beaches and great restaurants. A lot of money has recently been poured into tree-lined boulevards‚ bridges and beachside resorts. The Song Han Bridge was built by the people of Da Nang. It is the first swing bridge to be
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Doctrine‚ the USA was not going to allow any more countries turn communist; the USA was going to “contain” the expansion of communism. The US government believed that this could be achieved by helping the South Vietnamese government resist the attacks of Ho Chi Minh’s communist North Vietnam‚ to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world. Another main reason why the US got involved in the war was because of the “Domino Theory”. President Eisenhower saw South-Asia as a row of
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SALES CONTRACT No.57/2014 Ho Chi Minh City‚ May 19th‚ 2014 The Seller: Dalat Agriculture and Forestry JSC‚ Vietnam Address: 39 Phu Dong Thien Vuong Street‚ Ward 8‚ Da Lat City‚ Lam Dong‚ Vietnam Telephone: +84-63-656565 Fax: +84-63-665442 Email: info@dalatgap.com Represented by: Mr. Tran Thanh Sang Position: Director The Buyer: Shoei Foods Corporation Address: Shoei Bldg‚ 5-7‚ Akihabara‚ Taito-ku‚Tokyo‚ Japan Telephone: +81-33-2342345 Fax: +81-33-2672634 Email: shoeifoods@Shoeifoods
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amplified its energy base all through Vietnam. At the point when Japan surrendered toward the end of World War II in 1945‚ Ho Chi Minh’s powers took the capital of Hanoi and announced Vietnam to be an autonomous nation‚ the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. France declined to perceive Ho’s assertion and came back to Vietnam‚ driving Ho’s Communist strengths into northern Vietnam. Ho claimed for help from the United States‚ but since the United States was involved in the raising Cold War with the Communist
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