To what extent has the importance of the Tet Offensive of 1968 been overrated? The Tet Offensive began on January 30th 1968‚ consisting of a series of simultaneous communist uprisings across 36 provincial and 64 district capitals of South Vietnam. Tet is an undisputed turning point in the war leading to almost immediate de-escalation of US commitment. The importance of Tet lies in its clear exposure of Johnson’s illegitimate claims of progress and the ineffectiveness of previous escalation in
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Indochina War‚ eventually expelling the French in 1954. Thereafter‚ Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states‚ North and South Vietnam. Conflict between the two sides intensified‚ in what is known as the Vietnam War‚ with the North and the Vietcong fighting South Vietnam heavily backed by the US. The war ended with a North Vietnamese victory in 1975. Vietnam was then unified under a Communist government but remained impoverished and politically isolated. In 1986‚ the government initiated
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Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.‚ is the name Muhammed Ali was given at birth. At age 22‚ Cassius Clay joined the religion of Nation of Islam‚ and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Ali stood up to the United States of America in protest of Vietnam War. In the 1960’s during the Civil Rights Movement‚ Ali did not take the safe path of least resistance. To this say Ali has no regrets for the actions he has taken‚ and is happy with his life decisions. The United States of America was founded on the right
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terms of both conventional and revolutionary warfare‚ the Tet Offensive was a tactical failure. In an intelligence memorandum circulated on January 31‚ the CIA soberly described the Tet Offensive as designed to demonstrate North Vietnamese and Vietcong strength and resiliency and at the same time deal a psychological
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The Korean War would be a radical step in fighting wars‚ as well as the feelings people had toward the war. All wars in American History fought before the Korean War were based on either national survival or the gain of territory. A strong conflict was created between the Soviet Union and the United States. From this conflict‚ tension was so strong that wars were fougt in the midst of this Cold War. The Korean War was the first America ever waged that was not fought for national survival‚ for
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Foundation Ancient Vietnam About 2‚000 years ago people in North Vietnam began growing rice in the Red River Valley. To irrigate their crops they built dykes and dug canals. They were forced to work together and so an organized kingdom emerged called Van Lang. However in the 2nd century BC the Chinese conquered the area. The Chinese ruled northern Vietnam for more than 1‚000 years and Chinese civilization had a great impact on the Vietnamese. However in South Vietnam there was Indian influence.
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The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes Massive black rebellions‚ constant strikes‚ gigantic anti-war demonstrations‚ draft resistance‚ Cuba‚ Vietnam‚ Algeria‚ a cultural revolution of seven hundred million Chinese‚ occupations‚ red power‚ the rising of women‚ disobedience and sabotage‚ communes & marijuana: amongst this chaos‚ there was a generation of youths looking to set their own standard - to fight against the establishment‚ which was oppressing them‚ and leave their mark
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are coming at you‚ you can smell the fish-sauce breath hot on the back of your stupid neck all right now what are you going to do about it”. By saying this‚ the drill sergeant makes the soldiers feel less hesitant when they have to kill the enemy (Vietcong). There are many techniques used in the poem by Dawe to convey that war is not a game. An example of this is how he uses rhyming‚ “If you had one more brain… open that drain”. This expresses the pointlessness of war mainly through the words “brain”
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America had dropped over 8 million tons of bombs which caused over 1.6 million local civilian died and over 10 million civilian homeless. With the developing of the war‚ “US operation in the South Vietnamese village Cam Ne as an attack on fortified Vietcong bunkers”‚ “every subject tended to become Vietnam”. Third‚ the Vietnam War took indelible impact on US economy. The big amount of military expenses made the American take a huge burden on the nation economy. The military expense may be used to
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I think the media played a very big role in influencing the public opinion during the Vietnam War. This was one of the first major wars being covered by the media; television had become something very familiar to the public sin the beginning of World War II. At the end of the war‚ it began to be manufactured in large-scale. In the 1950s‚ only 9% of Americans owned a television but in 1966‚ this number rose dramatically to 93%. Therefore‚ we can that television had become the most important source
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