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democratic United States found itself fighting a battle of ideologies against its former ally, the communist totalitarian Soviet Union; state-controlled Soviet communism clashed with both American free market capitalism and representative democracy. When Ho Chi Minh and the communist Vietminh defeated the French army in Vietnam in 1954, Americans believed that the Vietminh were offshoots of monolithic Soviet communism, which is the idea that all communist countries were controlled by the Soviet…

America’s 1970s, the decade nickname as the ‘Me’ Decade. It was a time to show your individual choice of outfit and color combination, expressing you and/or how you feel. And the viewer would also see the meaning and chooses the same style of outfit or oppose it. During this time, certain events like the Vietnam War, the protests for a group rights, and the uprising desire for a fitting ideal figure is an example that changed the way fashion represent its opinion in punk and glam look, the…

into two bodies who argued the sanity of the other. Televisions and radios covered every inch of the war, from our soldiers to their families at home. Overseas our troops fought alongside Democratic South Vietnam to not only protect Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh and the growing communist threat, but to also put an end to the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia, as or postulated by the domino theory. The sixties and the seventies were a time of change, especially in the United States.…

This type of warfare was extremely effective against American troops. Ho Chi Minh knew that pitched battles between Americans would not work so he avoided these unless the Viet Cong held an advantage. He called for these hit and run tactics so they would reduce the build up of enemy troops. To also counter enemy build up Minh…

As conflicts arose internally in Vietnam, the country was eventually split by the 17th parallel dividing Vietnam into two political sides. (Jacobs, 7) While on one hand, North Vietnam favored a Communist government led by the Ho Chi Minh, on the other hand, South Vietnam favored a democracy and was led by Ngo Dinh Diem. Consequently, Washington, with the fear of communism following the domino effect intervened in Vietnam’s affair to prevent the influence of communism on countries such as Lao,…

Throughout the United States, the Vietnam War is well known. It was a bloody battle that stretched for around twenty years and affected the lives of many people, either directly or through their relatives who either fought in or simply lived through the time of the Vietnam war. The war, as its title would suggest, took place in Vietnam, between North (communist) Vietnam, and South (noncommunist) Vietnam, which was supported by the United States. It was a long and complicated war that strongly…

had an opportunity to take back Vietnam and create their own establishment of Government lead by Ho Chi Minh then after the war allies gave back South Vietnam to the French while North Vietnam was left in the hands of the non-communist Chinese, the Chinese treated the North Vietnam people badly and that support for Ho Chi Minh grew then in 1946 the Chinese left North Vietnam which left it to Ho Chi Minh and he took over it then in October 1946, the French claimed that they would take over North…

When rules and regulations are broken, it leads to disastrous events. In the story The Lord Of The Flies, throughout the whole story it demonstrates how their society was destroyed. For example, rule breaking was one of them. One act that was shown in the story was when Jack and the choirboys let the fire go out and Ralph called a meeting with the conch, which symbolized order. They started arguing of the how that occurred and Piggy took the conch to talk but jack kept interrupting him. “ I got…

Out of the many stories that my grandpa James Haas, has told me about him serving his time in the war, the story of when my grandpa and grandma were stationed in at Fort Hood. The story was about when my grandma was living in a trailer house while my grandpa was training. One day though when my grandma was cooking some bacon for breakfast, the tray that the bacon was on had caught fire. My grandma had put the bacon back in the fridge though, and had found out later when she looked in the fridge…

The Tet Offensive was an arranged sequence of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to provoke rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States leave the Vietnam War. Though U.S. and South Vietnamese fought hard to hold off the attacks great damages were done. Despite the damages, North Vietnam did will with planning the Tet Offensive. Because of this the attacks were marked a turning point in…