Vietnam Essay

The Vietnam war was a brutal war killing millions of vietnamese civilians, thousands of americans, and destroying miles of jungle. it also caused long term effects that to this day are making people physically ill, ruining habitats, dividing people on both home fronts, and causing a high tension point between a people and its government. The vietnam war started in 1956 due to the division of the (GVN South Vietnam) and the (DRV North Vietnam). American pressure caused these two countries to…

Essay: In the aftermath of the Vietnam War (1955-1975) Cambodia’s political and social tensions rose so dramatically that they led to war with Vietnam. Cambodia went from celebrating their victory over the Americans to a nation on the brink of war with its neighbours. In the aftermath of the war, due to clashing communist ideologies, the countries, Cambodia and Vietnam, positioned themselves against each other. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge conducted mass purges that kill a million people and…

Conventionally, Vietnam is a nation-state, and country with a rather long and complicated history, filled with varying cultural traditions and a great deal of differences between regions, and smaller states. Culturally, in a magnitude of manners, the Vietnamese people have more in common with Confucian China than Buddhist Southeast Asia. Most cultures throughout the Southeast Asian regions, appear to regard the Vietnamese people as fighters, and are not particularly fond of them despite their…

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…

Arguably more influential to U.S. policymakers than the fear of monolithic communism was the belief that “loss” of Vietnam would result in severe domestic backlash. This conclusion was drawn as a result of the domestic response to President Truman’s perceived “loss” of China. In the domestic sphere, both politically and publicly, Truman was vilified for being weak on communism and jeopardizing the safety of the United States as well as its allies. The Republican Party exploited these criticisms…

be used to describe the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War, which spanned from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975, was a conflict between the Communist North Vietnam (and their ally the Viet Cong) and South Vietnam (and their ally the United States of America). In the film “The Fog of War”, former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara explains the lessons America learned from the changes made during and after the war. In 1965, the United States entered the Vietnam War which greatly…

The Cold War can be seen as the root of America’s involvement in Vietnam. The US followed a strict policy of containment as implemented by President Truman. This policy stated that the United States would supply financial aid to any country that was under the threat of becoming communist. At first, the US was only indirectly involved in Vietnam. The Vietnamese were tiring of being under colonialist rule and therefore came into conflict with France, who had colonised their country in the late…

The Vietnam war is probably the most controversial war in United States history. Many people wanted the U.S. to never join the war, but then when we joined, people got mad. People in the U.S. even rallied to leave the war. There were many new weapons and war tactics that were introduced in the Vietnam war and have become well known today. The biggest thing that was introduced and was a huge factor in the war was the war tactic, Guerilla warfare, that the Vietcong used. It was a very successful…

The Vietnam War was perhaps one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history. The United States had no objective in the war and did not make an official declaration of war. The war started through a series of events. Ho Chi Minh, the future leader of the Viet Minh, formed his own faction in order to drive off the remaining Japanese invaders from World War II and the new French administration. After Japan's' defeat in World War II, they retreated, allowing Minh's forces to take over power…

Rienzi Zumaeta English 3b alberts March 4 2016 Commies and jungle My name is John Reynolds and I‘m a Vietnam veteran. I am going to tell you about my time in Vietnam war. It was 1966 and a letter has arrived at my door. Even though still a young immature child. They still call upon me to help our country. I was even excited about it unknowing about what I was to face. Thinking this was gonna be a good honorable thing it was probably the hardest and most impactful thing I ever had to deal…