Containment In Vietnam

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Containment is the action of keeping something harmful under control, a policy that prevents expansion of a hostile country being influenced. In 1950, the U.S did just that towards Southeast Asian countries, especially in Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia. Geographically the countries were located next and under China and Russia, therefore it was not wrong to stay cautious and be concerned of the “sphere of communism” spreading into the countries like a domino effect. However, during the Vietnam War, Korean War and Operation Menu the U.S did use bombs as their ultimate weapon in the battle of “hearts and mind". Through these actions, the U.S. was not consistent with freedom, as well as democracy. Maintaining the containment to these
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While trying to win the heart of Vietnamese people, the U.S failed to show its ethics as a well represented country when U.S decided to support the Southern Vietnamese by using African Americans as armed soldiers to send support in Vietnam. By spraying toxic and dropping the napalm of to the North known widely as Agent Orange, this created a devastated aftermath of diseases implanted in the soil of the living civilians around the Northern area. Furthermore, it broke the US’s promise to provide aid and arms for the South Vietnam during Vietnamization policy. Domestically, in the U.S around 1960s, the U.S create a Student for Democracy and Free Speech Movement that eventually spread across campus around the regions. With a lot of effort, thoughts and hard work, the students starts to oppose the U.S actions in Vietnam, unfortunately the U.S resist the action and brought the whole nation to division between the Hawks (Pro-war) and Doves (Anti-war). Looks like the division within the country didn 't help the situation in Vietnam any better it made Americans look worse, although it 's not an action the the U.S government worked for, however it 's still an unconformity mindset that made the U.S looked weak and unconcentrated to the situation in Vietnam especially in front of Russia. Therefore the democracy value is incorrectly applied to …show more content…
All of the consequences resulted based on the U.S actions. None of the countries get an equal treatment of freedom and democracy as they deserve. The ideal is simple as anti-communism, its a wild card to have the United States to be the protective eagle and look over the countries, however the U.S failed to did just that and result in the past and the present for these countries, deforestation, deaths and casualties, or system of government. Dropping bombs on these countries may seemed that the U.S look powerful and heroic, but little did people know the background is basically corrupted. Up until today, the society has changed much, but not much that we think we 've evolved to become stronger but we 're

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