Vietnam War vs. Soviet Afghan War Vietnam War vs. Soviet-Afghan War The Vietnam War was a long and costly armed conflict between the communist regime of North Vietnam who joined forces with its southern allies‚ also know as the Viet Cong‚ and South Vietnam and their principle ally‚ know as the United States of America. The War began in the year 1954‚ after the accession to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam. This continued against
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Brief summary The Vietnam War commonly known as the Second Indochina War began as a conflict in 1959‚ after five years of the division of the country by the Geneva Accords. The United States and other members of the SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) joined forces with South Vietnam in contesting communist forces comprised of South Vietnamese supporters of the communist National Liberation Front known as Viet Cong (VC)‚ and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). In addition‚ the North had benefited
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points was Vietnam. Clueless as to there being three different groups all fighting in the same country‚ the military was at a loss. Vietcong troops killed an inordinate amount of US troops because they didn’t do their homework before rushing in the save the day. Nowadays‚ the US has the CIA {established in 1947} or the NSA {established in 1952} to collect data before going into a war or any military conflict. Due to this intelligence and the advancement
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I drew this picture to represent my decision and view on how merciless the Vietnam War was and the dropping public support for the war in the later years. I purposely portrayed the casket with colored American flag in the center of many colorless graves and dry tree to symbolize the public view of how pointless the war was to begin with. Many did not know of Vietnam until the war was escalated‚ when soldiers are brought back no one would pay respect and left as if they did something morally wrong
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The Cold War was a long period of tension between the democracies of the Western World and the communist countries of Eastern Europe. The west was led by the United States and Eastern Europe was led by the Soviet Union. These two countries became known as superpowers. Although the two superpowers never officially declared war on each other‚ they both sided with different countries in proxy wars such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War. They also fought each other in the arms race and the space
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This investigation will seek to answer the question: “How did Operation Rolling Thunder result in the prolonging of the war during the period of Johnson Presidency.” This investigation will evaluate the reason for Operation Rolling Thunder in the prolonging of the war. Operation Rolling Thunder began in 1965 under the approval of President Lyndon B. Johnson‚ during the Vietnam War. I chose this question because‚ it is important to note how political agendas and policy influences the value of a military
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The United States strategy in Vietnam from 1965 to 1968 went through various changes and revisions as leadership tried to find a feasible plan of action. US Army General William Westmoreland and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara were two of the major forces in US leadership that would shape the war effort. They devised a military strategy of attrition through tactics of search and destroy‚ covert operations‚ and other factors in hopes of wearing out the enemy. While their strategy found some success
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The 60’s were full of drugs‚ sex‚ and war. All of this was possible thanks to Democracy and Freedom; America would be damned if they let Communism threaten that. The draft was reinstated and young‚ able men were given a slap on the back and sent off to fight for their country. As‚ “Democratic”‚ war in Vietnam flared‚ many lives were being lost and many more ruined - physically‚ economically and mentally. Although the war in Vietnam had the complete support of the American government‚ the American
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As it can be seen‚ there was much conflict between the North & South in Vietnam. The question is what conflicts initiated the Cold War. The relationship between the both states already had difficulties from the beginning of time. In the South‚ they usually contained a smaller population than the North but were consequently growing as a group. As everyone knows that a great relationship has to be built by a trust‚ that was the one thing between the states they did not possess. Due to this‚ both
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His task in Vietnam was among the most complex and challenging ever faced by an American military leader. As MACV commander‚ Abrams was responsible for implementing the Vietnamization program‚ which had originated in the Johnson administration and which was announced with much public fanfare in 1969 by President Richard M. Nixon. Abrams viewed the Cambodian incursion of 1970 as a means of keeping Vietcong and NVA pressure off the gradual American withdrawal and turnover military responsibility to
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