Blood ... Terror ...and Insanity are 3 words you can use to explain Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. It recalls the Vietnam War through the eyes of Richard Perry‚ an African-American soldier. Perry goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle fighting for a cause that no one could agree upon. The book has 4 other main characters‚ Lobel‚ Johnson‚ Brunner‚ and Peewee. Myers’ Fallen Angels takes a dive into the harsh reality of modern war. The realistic depictions
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What Role Did the Tet Offensive Play in Shaping the Outcome of the War? From a purely military‚ tactical point of view‚ the Tet Offensive was successful for the allied forces. By the end of the Tet Offensive‚ all Vietcong were expelled from each place they had invaded. However‚ the offensive was a dismal blow to the U.S. in regards to public support for the military actions in the Vietnam War. “By February 1968‚ the U.S. death toll in Vietnam had risen to more than 500 per week‚ and as the casualty
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of making some decisions that would change the future of America forever. According to Moss‚ “at the time of his death‚ Kennedy’s Vietnam policy was in disarray and his administration was divided over what to do about the failing war against the VietCong.” The subsequent events that were dependent on the leadership of Kennedy were the results of the Vietnam War. Many of Kennedy’s supporters felt passionate that had he not been assassinated that the Vietnam War would have never involved America
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and wheat fungus all used as agents. In WW2 the Japanese had their own secret facility for research‚ which was called‚ (Unit 731) that carried out human experiments on prisoners to see what effects different organisms or agents had. In Vietnam‚ the Vietcong used punji sticks dipped in feces‚ which caused severe infections after an enemy solider has been stabbed. There are tons of organisms or agents that could be and can be used for biological warfare‚ but like nuclear and chemical warfare it’s all
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“Vietnam War” Location: Vietnam Date: April‚1954 - April‚ 1975 Background: The Vietnam War‚ also consider by many the Second Indochina War‚ was a war that lasted approximately twenty-one years. Although the Vietnam War had several events that led to the chaos‚ one of the main causes of the war involved the spread of communism. It was believed by many that communism could spread and the citizens of Vietnam at the time were having conflict with the French colonial‚ this lead up to the war. This
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The My Lai Massacre was one of the many incidents during the Vietnam War of U.S. troops murdering innocent civilians and committing war crimes. This was the result of the U.S. sending in young men to fight unknown enemies. Unlike previous wars‚ the Vietcong didn’t have uniforms or anything that would identify them as enemies. Therefore many in higher ranking officers would allow their troops to indiscriminately fire at civilians‚ even if they were women‚ children‚ or the elderly. Many American and South
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The Vietnam War The Vietnam war was one of the longest wars in United States history. Fighting on one side of the war was the Untied States‚ the Republic of Vietnam‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ and South Korea. On the other side of the war was North Vietnam‚ the National Liberation Front‚ and a communist-led South Vietnamese guerrilla movement. This war started because President Eisenhower did not want communism to spread throughout the world and eventually make its way to America. This war took
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war in American history‚ severed our country between the pro-war “hawks” and anti-war “doves”. With the seventeenth parallel division of North and South Vietnam‚ the United States stepped in to support the south against the communistic north and Vietcong. The discussion seems to always revolve around whether or not we should have inserted ourselves into foreign affairs; however‚ not many appear to take interest in the impact it has had on the men of our nation. America was promised a strong leader—
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Republic of Vietnam‚ the non communist part of the county. Civil War broke out as the communists in the North wanted to take over the entirety of Vietnam and create on singular communist state. They were assisted in their efforts by the communist Vietcong guerrilla fighters of the south. But what propelled the war was the support they gained from China and the Soviet Union. America’s involvement: US involvement in the Vietnam War began in the early 1950’s a reaction to the communist victory in
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The Vietnam War was a war fought between Communist North Vietnam and anti-Communist South Vietnam. The main‚ intended goal from the United States perspective was to prevent the further spread of communism. In order to execute their goal‚ they sent troops to South Vietnam and established several bases. The U.S. assisted South Vietnam to push back the North Vietnamese. Although the U.S. pushed North Vietnamese back many times‚ they never succeeded in the end. The Vietnam War left several positive and
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