The Vietnam War was one of the most expensive and longest wars in American History. We not only paid the financial toll, it cost the people involved greatly, mentally and physically. This war caused great sadness and distress, as well as national misunderstanding. Everyone had one big question being why? Why was the war being fight? Another question was why America extracted from Vietnam. The reason of this paper is to answer these two questions, and maybe add some clearness to the confusion American was experiencing.
The Truman doctrine was created to stop the spread of communism and it was utilized to stop the south part of Vietnam getting to be communists like the north So America sent in cash and all the help they could to stop Vietnam …show more content…
The misfortunes to the Vietnamese individuals were shocking. The budgetary expense to the United States comes to something over $150 billion dollars. Immediate American contribution started in 1955 with the entry of the first advisors. The principal battle troops landed in 1965 and we battled the war until the truce of January 1973.
The United States was not suited for winning the War because they started to realized that the real war in Vietnam was a political one not a military one. They realized that the only way South Vietnam could win was with the support of the United States army. Kennedy then limited the U.S. involvement.
Yet after he was killed in 1963 American method changed, with Lyndon Johnson decision to increase troops. In August 1964 there was an occurrence in the Gulf of Tonkin where two American ships were attacked (Tonnesson P.36). President Johnson then took full advantage; he started ordering bombings in North Vietnam. The North Vietnamese people were frighten and took sides with Vietcong. President Johnson had proven himself to be the master of dishonesty. His spokesman had withheld serious information about the South Vietnam commando attacks along North Vietnamese coast; Johnson was thrilled with the broad power that the gulf of Tonkin resolution had given him. By the end of 1965 American militarization was in full swing and troop strength was extended …show more content…
The South Vietnamese were not pleased about U.S. soldiers being in their country, on an everyday basis, thousands of South Vietnamese merged the Viet Cong, so trust became a main issue Among the American soldiers, and they had no clue who to shoot and who to help. The longest America war, and the first one they lost, thus concludes. During 15 years of military involvement, “over 2 million Americans helped in Vietnam with 500,000 seeing real combat. 47,244 were killed in combat, including 8000 airmen. There were 10,446 non-combat deaths. 153,329 were seriously injured, including 10,000 amputees. Over 2400 American POWs/MIAs were unaccounted for as of 1973” (Tonnesson P.103).
In conclusion the Vietnam War was not our War to battle; we lost the war and a great deal of brave men and ladies lost their lives in this war. The rest came back home to an Americana divided with those who greeted them back with open arms and those who weren’t happy with them. This just intensified their lack of trust. We backed out from the war because we were losing, and the worst part is things pretty much stayed the same in
The Truman doctrine was created to stop the spread of communism and it was utilized to stop the south part of Vietnam getting to be communists like the north So America sent in cash and all the help they could to stop Vietnam …show more content…
The misfortunes to the Vietnamese individuals were shocking. The budgetary expense to the United States comes to something over $150 billion dollars. Immediate American contribution started in 1955 with the entry of the first advisors. The principal battle troops landed in 1965 and we battled the war until the truce of January 1973.
The United States was not suited for winning the War because they started to realized that the real war in Vietnam was a political one not a military one. They realized that the only way South Vietnam could win was with the support of the United States army. Kennedy then limited the U.S. involvement.
Yet after he was killed in 1963 American method changed, with Lyndon Johnson decision to increase troops. In August 1964 there was an occurrence in the Gulf of Tonkin where two American ships were attacked (Tonnesson P.36). President Johnson then took full advantage; he started ordering bombings in North Vietnam. The North Vietnamese people were frighten and took sides with Vietcong. President Johnson had proven himself to be the master of dishonesty. His spokesman had withheld serious information about the South Vietnam commando attacks along North Vietnamese coast; Johnson was thrilled with the broad power that the gulf of Tonkin resolution had given him. By the end of 1965 American militarization was in full swing and troop strength was extended …show more content…
The South Vietnamese were not pleased about U.S. soldiers being in their country, on an everyday basis, thousands of South Vietnamese merged the Viet Cong, so trust became a main issue Among the American soldiers, and they had no clue who to shoot and who to help. The longest America war, and the first one they lost, thus concludes. During 15 years of military involvement, “over 2 million Americans helped in Vietnam with 500,000 seeing real combat. 47,244 were killed in combat, including 8000 airmen. There were 10,446 non-combat deaths. 153,329 were seriously injured, including 10,000 amputees. Over 2400 American POWs/MIAs were unaccounted for as of 1973” (Tonnesson P.103).
In conclusion the Vietnam War was not our War to battle; we lost the war and a great deal of brave men and ladies lost their lives in this war. The rest came back home to an Americana divided with those who greeted them back with open arms and those who weren’t happy with them. This just intensified their lack of trust. We backed out from the war because we were losing, and the worst part is things pretty much stayed the same in