The Vietnam War had finished and on the 30th of April 1975‚ the Vietcong took control of Saigon and renamed it Ho Chi Minh City. President Thieu surrendered and fled the nation. Vietnam turned into a unified nation and races were held in 1976 . The Domino Theory proceeded into Laos and Cambodia yet not Thailand‚ Singapore‚ Malaysia and the Philippines. Aside from this fleeting impact‚ numerous short and long haul consequences for Vietnam once the Americans had cleared out. There is a comparative
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end of the year another 65000 would be home. He actually deployed more troops into Vietnam after making that statement. There was also the Tet Offensive‚ the U.S. Gov. told the public that the Vietcong were weak and did not have the strength to launch an offensive; while this speech was being made the Vietcong launched the biggest assault of the war. The people couldn’t believe the fact that they were being lied to by their own government. They started to question things‚ and the distrust began. Still
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our battleships located in the Gulf of Tonkin‚ Congress granted President Lyndon B. Johnson a blank check thus giving President Johnson the power to dutifully do what he thought was the morally right option. Americans could not go up against the Vietcong‚ but nevertheless President Johnson refused to withdraw troops no matter what the circumstances. When President Nixon was inaugurated into office‚ he promised to withdraw troops slowly. He enforced a plan called “Vietnamization” and Peace of Honor
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AS History – Unit 1 A World Divided: Communism and Democracy in the 20th Century Revision Guide Edition 5: January 2010 Contents Page: Content: | Page: | How to use this book | 3 | How to answer the questions | 4 | Writing Frames | 5 | How your essays will be marked | 11 | Previous Exam Questions and predicted questions | 12 | Unit 1: Signs of change by 1955 | 14 | Unit 2: Martin Luther King and Peaceful Protest | 23 | Unit 3: Black Power and the use of Violence
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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 the South Vietnamese mandated by Vietnamization. Although Abrams privately doubted the ability of the South Vietnamese army to replace U.S. troops effectively
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Calley’s commanding officers who from which Calley was just acting out orders‚ or to the American people for there continued protest of the war. I feel Calley is to blame since it was his responsibility to protect the civilians in My Lai from the Vietcong not be the one in which the villagers were scared by. Once he realized that the
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attempted to help Ngo Dinh Diem build a new nation in South Vietnam once France withdrew from Vietnam in 1954 by sending military “advisers.” As the United States was helping the south‚ Ho Chi Minh still had the Vietcong in the south that were getting stronger and more militant. In 1959‚ the Vietcong guerillas raided throughout the south and controlled most of the area outside of Saigon. When John F. Kennedy took office‚ the Diem regime was crumbling‚ so JFK became fully committed to this Vietnam conflict
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against the forces of the United States and to prevent aggression.” The resolution was significant in that Congress essentially surrendered its war making powers to the executive branch. Operation Rolling Thunder - In February 1965‚ in response to Vietcong attacks on American installations in South Vietnam that killed thirty-two Americans‚ Johnson ordered Operation Rolling Thunder‚ a bombing program planned the previous fall that continued‚ more or less uninterrupted‚ until October 1968. Operation
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under constant stress as a Vietcong attack could occur anywhere at any place and at any time. •The psychological impact on some Veterans led to violence‚ family breakdowns and in some cases even suicide. •An inability to civilian life led some Veterans into drug dependency‚ alcoholism and crime. The physical impact: •Many Australian soldiers served in areas that American forces had tried to defoliate (practice of destroying vegetation in order to deny the Vietcong jungle cover‚ using chemicals
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ornate beauty‚ which is something hard pressed to find in Vietnam amid all the tragedy. Tim works this sense of beauty into the rest of his story‚ which turns from morbid to optimistic. This story based off the beauty of the flowers and Tim as the Vietcong soldier allows him to overcome his guilt. Immediately after the flowers are in view‚ the grotesque descriptions of the man’s morbidity cease. He fixates on the man’s beautiful past‚ his passion for education‚ and his romantic escapades‚ (122) which
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