In the 1960’s the US was pushed into a large scale involvement in the crisis in vietnam. This crisis called for thousands of men to be called to duty for the greater good of democracy. While the war was taking place nearly 8‚000 miles off the US shores‚ it was also unfolding in front of the eyes of the US citizen on national television. For the first time in warfare‚ the outcome of what unfolded on television instead of what unfolded on the battlefield played a larger role in determining the victor
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The Vietnam War was a civil war‚ a war between the ideologies of capitalism and communism and a war that involved the great powers and their smaller allies‚ including Australia. The Australians were involved in the Vietnam War from 1962 until 1972. The main reasons that the Australians were involved were the fear of communism‚ the forward defence policy and Australia’s commitment of troops to the United States and the two alliance agreements. The main reason that made Australia involved in the Vietnam
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involved in the Vietnam War from 1962-1972 with originally thirty army advisors being sent over to South Vietnam. Over this period of time Australian attitudes towards the Vietnam War changed greatly due to two main contributing reasons. These reasons were the media and television viewing the prominent issue of conscription. When it was first announced in April 1962 that Australia was to fight in Vietnam it was seen by the majority as necessary and needed. Many Australians supported the war because of
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Junior English 2O February 2014 Influence of Vietnam War in the American Culture “The antiwar movement of the 1960’s grew out of discontent with the government and the status quo‚ as well as an increasing feeling that war‚ especially the war in Vietnam‚ was unjust.”(“Anti-War”). The Vietnam War strongly impacted America‚ and shaped it into the country it is today. With this war‚ the counter culture emerged. These members displayed strong anti-war feelings for the first time in U.S. history with
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The vietnam war was a great war that was tough and had many struggles there was many obstacles in the way to beat the vietnamese many argue that we won because we backed out of the war but a lot of people think we lost the vietnam war and here is a few reasons the united states lost the vietnam war . The united states of america lost the vietnam war because of lack of allied support‚ lack of support at home‚ lack of ballistic or nuclear bombs and finally the lack of real military objectives
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The Vietnam War‚ a war that costed thousands upon thousands of lives‚ but could we have avoided it all? Could this bloody war have never happened? Congress was wrong in approving the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution‚ for without it millions of lives would have been saved. The Constitution addresses declaring and waging war by saying‚ “Congress shall of the power to declare war”. The constitution gives the right to declare war to Congress‚ so the President is not allowed to declare war unless Congress allows
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public distaste for the Vietnam War had a huge effect on the cold War and Proxy war. Richard Nixon was elected President after promising that he end the war honorably and get our troops home. The Vietnam War left a lasting effect on how proxy wars are conducted today. The US is today more likely to just provide aid and assistance rather than sending in ground forces as proxies (Trueman‚ 2017). The reluctance of the US to send ground troops to Syria during its civil war is proof that the US has
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History Homework - Vietnam Why did the USA fail in Vietnam? America failed in the Vietnam War for various reasons; the people of Vietnam liked the communists of North Vietnam. The Americans bombed and killed the Vietnamese. The people of Vietnam hated the Americans in the end. The Americans tried to bomb the Vietnamese into submission and failed. Also when they were in open warfare America was successful‚ but when it turned into a guerrilla war America failed‚ that’s why America used napalm‚
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At the start of the 20th century Vietnam was of very little concern to the USA but by 1968 the Vietnam War was at its peak with about 500 000 American troops there. This drastic change came about for many reasons. From the mid-19th century Vietnam had been a French colony (known as Indochina) but in 1940‚ during WWII this changed as Japan invaded the country. The USA helped Indochina fight the Japanese as they were the enemy. They secretly joined forces with communist Ho Chi Minh and this resulted
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Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War was the longest war in Australia’s history. From the time Australia arrived at Vietnam in 1962 almost 60 000 Australians served in the war. 521 had died from the war and over 3000 were wounded. The war was the greatest social and political dispute since the referendums of World War 1. During the war it started to show that the attitudes towards the Vietnam War started to change in Australia. Propaganda started to spread in Australia about being part of
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