Vietnam is a country that extends about 1000 miles from Southern China and Southwards to the Gulf of Thailand. The country’s official language is Vietnamese‚ and its capital city is known as Hanoi. Vietnamese are newcomers to North American who still hold their culture‚ and they have traced their civilization back even further to a religion known as Phung-Nguyen that existed before 2000 B.C. This paper contains a discussion and also research about the Vietnam War or the so-called Vietnamese “boat
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Although controversial in its inception‚ Maya Lin ’s Vietnam War Memorial adequately fulfills the vision of Jan Scruggs‚ who returned home wounded from the conflict in Southeast Asia at the age of 19‚ for a monument to his fallen comrades in arms that would "provide a symbol of acknowledgement of the courage‚ sacrifice‚ and devotion to duty of those who were among the nation ’s finest youth."1 Lin ’s work‚ unlike most previous military monuments‚ rejects the emphasis on heroics in favor of a poignant
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diplomatic relations with China and the Soviet Union‚ ended the draft for Vietnam‚ created Title IX‚ helped fund the war against cancer and started a distrust between the people of the United States and the president. Besides Watergate‚ Nixon his best known for diplomatic
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The Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by an almost third-world nation‚ but we lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won‚ or even prevented in the first place. The United States could have and should have won this war‚ with a combination of better weapons usage‚ better tactics‚ and better support from their home country. Before the War Even years before the war‚ Vietnam was a hotly disputed
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of the lunar New Year’s Day. This surprise attack is known as the Tet Offensive and many people viewed this as a turning point in the Vietnam War. Militarily‚ the Tet Offensive showed the significance of Vietcong/Vietminh’s military power and nowhere in South Vietnam was safe. On 31st of January 1968‚ the simultaneous attack the towns and cities in South Vietnam began and this went on for 3 days. Over 35 towns and cities including 13 provincial capitals were seized and shockingly‚ the US embassy
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The Vietnam War is our country’s second longest military conflict ever‚ starting in 1961 and ending officially in 1975. In terms of total American casualties‚ it ranks fourth in our history‚ following the American Civil War and both World Wars‚ with over 58‚000 brave lives sacrificed. But all of the blood‚ sweat‚ and tears our nation shed during those 14 years could have been avoided. I believe that the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War could have been easily prevented‚ and in turn‚ would
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The Vietnam War was the longest deployment of U.S. forces in hostile action in the history of the American republic. Although there is no formal declaration of war from which to date U.S. entry‚ President John F. Kennedy’s decision to send over 2‚000 military advisers to South Vietnam in 1961 marked the beginning of twelve years of American military combat. U.S. unit combat began in 1965 (Anderson‚ 1999). During this time there were many significant lessons that were learned and still affect the
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became involved in the Vietnam war because communism was spreading rapidly. The USA‚ Russia‚ and Britain were all allies in the WWI ‚ and there were not many things that they could agree on. Another reason why the US Was involved in the war was because they didn’t want another country to go communist Ho Chi Minh was fighting the french so they could take over and remove French control for independence. France was defeated at Dien Bien Phu‚ and forced to leave the Vietnam war. The war began in 1954‚ more
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The Vietnam War last from 1964-1975 for America and was it longest war. Throughout those eleven years many stories and letters were written and many more would come long after the wars end. While officially the conflict was considered to be a police action‚ many consider it be just rough and brutal as any other war fought in modern history. The majority of soldiers who did return home came back to an America far different than the one they left behind and were subject to the hatred of anti-war protestors
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the support of the Americans. He had announced that he was no longer going to be sending troops‚ which was putting a limit on the United States promise and from there the only thing that could have been done was to completely disengage. Richard Nixon was elected that year; he promised voter’s ‘peace with honor‚’ which to Nixon described the Paris Peace Accord to end the Vietnam war. But of course this was more easily said than done; peace talks were going on but there was little dedication from either
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