The First Vietnam War was fought by France and Ho Chi Minh and many lessons had to be learned to win this war. The Vietminh were not your traditional trained army‚ but made mostly of peasants who needed to be trained. Both the Vietminh and the French army had strengths and weakness which would impact the outcome of the war. The one thing Ho Chi Minh had over the French was he focused on the French weaknesses and used them to his advantage. Another important advantage was the knowledge the Vietminh
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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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the 19th century Vietnam has been at war between two political ideologies. Nationalism vs. Imperialism. Throughout its history Vietnam had trieb or to successively create a nationalistic identity but had failed again and again. When WW2 came to an end we saw how Vietnam’s history caused a revolution that united the peoples; through such events: oppression/suppression and thus causing an emergence in nationalistic ambitions. And a revolution which changed everything. Ex-Vietnam was part of French-ruled
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The aftermath of the Vietnam War had taken a severe toll on Vietnamese farmland‚ industry‚ and infrastructure due to the result of sustained American bombing missions. In the north‚ 29 of the 30 provincial capitals had sustained heavy bombing damage. One third of them almost destroyed. In the south‚ the economy had been propped up with United States aid and investment‚ but had little developments. In terms of economic aspects‚ about a million Vietnamese were relocated to previously uncultivated land
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HISTORY ASSESSMENT In the early 1960’s John.F.Kennedy pledges financial and military aid to South Vietnam who were struggling. As a political unrest grew‚ the support from a war in North Vietnam grew and in 1963 John.F.Kennedy was assassinated. President Johnson felt that‚ to keep in with the US foreign policy of containment‚ he would have to send a vast amount of young troops into Vietnam to help fight the rising influence of the Viet Cong. For over 10 years‚ the Us pledged thousands of soldiers
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War is always a controversial topic whenever it is discussed in a political setting‚ or even a private conversation between friends. No War has ever been a more controversial than the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was the longest War the nation has ever engaged in. The United States entered the war in 1961 and pulled out in 1975. Although the death toll did not reach as high as the civil war‚ or either World War One‚ or World War two. The Nation still lost over fifty thousand soldiers in the deadly
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World War II was the deadly war in history because ‚ It cost a lot money‚ damaged‚ killed more people than world war I‚ and caused more far-reaching changes than any other war in history. World War Two was a fight against evil‚ the totalitarian‚ racist‚ militaristic German state‚ headed by Adolf Hitler. “It was a war against an enemy of unspeakable evil” meaning it was so evil that there’s no word to describe it. How did the United States become involved in World War 2? reason why U.S. entered in
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The Vietnam war is one of the most talked about events in history. The war made the American people resent their government. At first people supported the government in their plan to stop communism‚ but as time went on people wanted it to end. There were several reasons that people felt opposition towards the war‚ such as: the government was shady and was feeding people lies about the Vietnam‚ thousands of lives were lost and the people saw soldiers watched them do it all‚ and lastly how much we
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THE VIETNAM WAR Did you know about 1.5 million people died during the Vietnam War‚ which was more than the population of New Mexico in the 1960s? Vietnam‚ which is relative in size to New Mexico‚ is a country in Asia that borders the Gulf of Tonkin. The Vietnam War was a result of people in Vietnam wanting independence from France. The US supported the French so that all of Vietnam would not become a communist country and so this would not lead to other countries following in their footsteps
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“NAACP Support of the Vietnam War: 1963-1969” talks about the head of the NAACP‚ his relation with President Johnson and the support they provided to his policy. It goes on to mention that it was also a financial benefit to the organization to stand with the president during that time. The article written by Veronia Majerol in New York Times Upfront‚ titled “The Vietnam WAR” talks more on how the war divided America‚ mostly between generations‚ the older crowds supported the war and the younger crowd
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