With World War II not being over long‚ and already being back at war with the Soviet Union‚ America’s involvement with the Vietnam War became a highly controversial topic. The draft system was being used again and it had a good portion of America’s population on edge. However‚ the fear of communism and its possible spread to other places kept Americans willing to fight during both the Cold War and the Vietnam War. America’s involvement in the Vietnam War spanned six presidencies. The average age
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over the war within its own borders‚ and therefore was fighting a war unpopular to its own people and the people which they tried to ’save’. Militarily the US failed to stop guerrilla warfare and committed many atrocities against the Vietnamese people. Ho Chi Minh (the leader of the North Vietnamese) on the other hand was a person supported by a lot of the Vietnamese (including many in the South)‚ because he gave the people what they wanted‚ which were to rid the country of foreign occupiers once an
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France‚ and Great Britain came together in April 1954 to try to resolve several problems related to Asia. One of the most troubling concerns was the long and bloody battle between Vietnamese nationalist forces‚ under the leadership of the communist Ho Chi Minh‚ and the French‚ who were intent on continuing colonial control over Vietnam. Since 1946 the two sides had been hammering away at each other. By 1954‚ however‚ the French were tiring of the long and inclusive war that was draining both the
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Vietnam had been split into two‚ with a Communist government in the North under Ho Chi Minh and a Democratic government in the South under Ngo Dinh Diem. The North lead by Ho Chi Minh‚ who launched a guerilla campaign in South Vietnam‚ the campaign was led by Viet Cong units‚ with the intention of bonding the country under communist rules. The Unites States began to train the Army of the Republican of Vietnam (ARVN)‚ to stop the spread of communism and to provide military advisors to help combat
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Vietnam and France held a meeting in Geneva‚ on the same day Dien Bien Phu fell. They argued about elections in Vietnam. Finally they agreed on the following parts: Vietnam would be divided temporarily in two along the 17th parallel the North under Ho Chi Minh and South under Ngo Dinh Diem The Vietminh forces would withdraw from the South and the French would pull out of the North A date for the elections was fixed: July 1956 Later this meeting was referred to as the Geneva Agreement. The
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the United States Withdraw From the Vietnam War? The United States withdrew from the Vietnam War for several reasons. The Army had to fight in unfamiliar territory‚ was lacking in moral‚ were not prepared for the conditions‚ could not shut down the Ho Chi Minh Trail‚ and were untrained to respond to guerilla warfare. This combination of disadvantages and the loss of public support led to the United States withdrawing from Vietnam. The United States Army was forced to fight in a new land that had
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THE VIETNAM WAR Did you know about 1.5 million people died during the Vietnam War‚ which was more than the population of New Mexico in the 1960s? Vietnam‚ which is relative in size to New Mexico‚ is a country in Asia that borders the Gulf of Tonkin. The Vietnam War was a result of people in Vietnam wanting independence from France. The US supported the French so that all of Vietnam would not become a communist country and so this would not lead to other countries following in their footsteps
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The role of the French in the Indo-Chinese war could be characterized as a desperate attempt to maintain control over their colonies in Asia. For the uninitiated‚ in the aftermath of the Second World War‚ the majority of European powers‚ which were inclusive of Britain and Germany‚ had relinquished their colonies‚ deeming them as distracting burdens. On the contrary‚ the French were still adamant that the possession of colonies would give the nation much desired power and status. From December 19
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AT WAR’S END: AN ELEGY by Rony V. Diaz ©2002 by Copper Sturgeon 1. THE DINNER PARTY THE evening before he killed himself‚ Virgilio Serrano gave a dinner party. He invited five guests—friends and classmates in university— myself included. Since we lived on campus in barracks built by the U.S. Army‚ he sent his Packard to fetch us. Virgilio lived alone in a pre-war chalet that belonged to his family. Four servants and a driver waited on him hand and foot. The chalet‚ partly damaged‚ was
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VIETNAM I. Intro II. Body a. Origins of the war/Justifications (or just have own paragraph) • Ho Chi Minh (beat the French 1954) • French Colonization • Split North/ South • North is communist; South is not. • Gulf of Tonkin (incident was used by the US; it may or may not have happened)/Resolution • Cold War & economic justifications III. Body a. Problems fighting in the war • Guerilla Warfare • Disillusionment • South Vietnamese Political Corruption o Ngo Dinh Diem • Temporary leader
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