Vietnam War Immigration Analysis

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The United States had welcomed several different nationalities of immigrants to its shores before by the mid 1970’s; there were thousands of Irish, Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Polish, Spanish and my other nationalities living in the United States at that time. One nationality of people that had a very minute population in the United States at that time was the Vietnamese. Those few that were here in America were spouses and children of military personnel (Rkasnuam & Batalova, 2014). This small population grew exponentially after April of 1975, due to the end of the Vietnam War.

The Vietnam War The Vietnam War is one of the longest wars in United States history. Columbia University published a book entitled, Columbia History of the Vietnam

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