Vietnam Essay

The Vietnam War happened from 1954 until 1975. It was a long, bloody and costly conflict between North Vietnam and its southern allies, Viet Cong, and the South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States to combat communist forces. However, United States didn’t participate in the war from the beginning. Ball considered that United States involvement in the Vietnam War would be unsuccessful, firstly because United States didn’t have the right equipment that could compete with the…

The Vietnam War was a conflict based on issues that were economic, cultural, political, and territorial based. The reason why I chose the Vietnam War is that it is shows a conflict that isn’t only on one specific issue, but it involves several and the conflict was a long, tragic war where there were many lives were lost. It is explained in the Vietnam Postscript in the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia that the conflict mainly took place in South Vietnam. The conflict continued between North…

are the product of Agent Orange and use of tactical herbicides during the Vietnam war. During the height of the Vietnam war the U.S. Military conducted a wide-ranging program of defoliation. Herbicidal weapons were developed to destroy the forest and jungle cover used by the enemy North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong Guerrilla troops. However, after the Vietnam conflict ended American service members and the people of Vietnam began to experience disease, cancer and other detrimental health…

Another reason the American strategy has failed in Vietnam is the use of napalm bombs and Agent Orange. During the war between 1965-1972, U.S troops used a substance known as napalm. It’s a jelly-like substance that would stick and burn anything up to ten minutes used in flamethrowers or bombs. The effect of napalm is on human is unbearable and create the most painful and death for people. This tactic is usually used in the jungle or bushes where Vietcong are hidden. According to “Howard Zinn a…

The US Should Not Have Released a Draft for the Vietnam War In the early 19th century, the height of European imperialism, France conquered Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, creating the French colony of Indochina. Vietnam was divided into three parts: Annam, Tonkin and Cochinchina. The French maintained colonial rule over the area until WWII when the area was occupied by the Japanese. At the end of the war, the communist-led Vietnam declared itself independent. The French, wanting their colony back,…

The Vietnam War was an unofficial war between the United States allied with South Vietnam against North Vietnam. While some may argue America won because they had less casualties, North Vietnam won because they spread communism, were successful in unifying Vietnam, and they tore America apart. There were roughly 1 million 200 thousand deaths in the Vietnam War. Firstly, the main reason America became involved with Vietnam is to continue the Policy of Containment. This was based off the domino…

Vietnam has been in conflict ever since the 1880’s where France tried to invade it and have it as a colony. This conflict lasted for decades up until 1954, where the French along with U.S. Support (President Truman aided them with over $160 million) were defeated by the Vietnamese forces. As a result, this separated a Communist North Vietnamese, and a Democratic South Vietnam. During this time, President Eisenhower was in office, and both he and The United States were major contributors in the…

Drug Use During the Vietnam Conflict Drug usage during the Vietnam War era was very common. Many soldiers who were drafted into the army had previously experimented with drugs, and it has been estimated that this included 30% of enlisted soldiers. While the remaining 70% of soldiers may not have ventured into drug use before the war, it became all to easy for them once they entered Vietnam where heroin and opium were easily accessed by the soldiers. The drugs were cheap and pure which enabled…

fought Viet Minh forces in an effort to maintain control over their Indochinese colonies. Lastly, the United States would get involved in Vietnam in an attempt to prop up the southern Republic of Vietnam against the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The following will be a brief summary that compares and contrasts the French and American conflicts in Vietnam by looking at motives for the wars, how the territorial boundaries of the war were defined, differences in understanding of why…

The Vietnam was not a pretty war, there were many young kids that got drafted and others that wanted to go, like Ted Boquist. Boquist was a young kid straight out of high school and wanted to get away from his small hometown so Boquist decided to fight a war that many wish would never had happened. Boquist’s experience in the war was what most people expected it to be like, he was sent to basic training, AIT, and eventually to Vietnam to defend our country. Luckily he made it back safely, and he…