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colonies back to the French after they lost WW II. With the Vietnamese fed up with not having their own independent nation but being under the control of a different nation, a man named Ho Chi Minh decided to fight against this. Minh created a Vietnam Independence League called the Viet Minh. The leader being Ho Chi Minh wanting to bring Vietnam into a communist nation under his leadership. The French were willing to have Vietnam as a free state under the French but the Vietnamese didn’t accept…

The Vietnam War was one of most unpopular wars by American citizens during and year after the war. This war was almost last twenty years long. That is a long time for people to fight in the war. This war was despised by many U.S citizens, mostly younger generation thought of this to be as unjust and that Americans should not have entered the war at all. Many from this era of the still hold this was in contempt. It was so unpopular with the American public so much that Veterans that come back…

supply route to the North on Febuary 8, 1971. The trail was called Ho Chi Minh Trail which was a jungle route. Finally we left the conflict on March 29, 1973. We never went back to the fight even though the South asked us to help again. United States don 't like to go back the same place twice, because they don 't want to lose again. On "April 30, 1975 the South Vietnamese surrenders and their captil Saigon is changed to Ho Chi Minch Ciy"(Vietnam…

Both China and the Soviet Union aided and reinforced Vietnam during the Vietnam War; however they each helped Vietnam differently and had a dissimilar advice and counsel to Vietnam. With both China and Soviet Union, Ho Chi Minh never accepted direction from either of them, as he did with the French and the Japanese, but he does in fact receive openly their help and support for the war. Ho remains independent concerning the decisions made in North Vietnam, he is not dependent on the Soviet…

Introduction When the citizens of the United States are asked the question, “What significant event happened in the latter part of the 1900s in the history of the United States?” many people might answer saying that they do not know. Others might answer the question by saying the Hippie Movement, while others might say the Vietnam War, but both answers to the question are correct. However, every event, whether big or small, during the end of the 1900s revolved around the Vietnam War. In the…

soldiers set foot on Vietnam they were doomed to los. The Vietnamese people had fought for their independence and right to self-determination for decades before the American government intervened. They were a people who held the strong belief that Ho Chi Minh and Communism would lead them to self-determination and were not about to let some ‘capitalist pigs’ halt them in their path to independence. While America was fated to never succeed in Vietnam from the beginning their ultimate downfall…

The Vietnam War demonstrates “ The insidious power of propaganda...The longest war this century was a war waged by America against Vietnam... It was an attack on the people of Vietnam, communist and non-communist, by American forces. It was an invasion of their homeland and their lives” ( John Pilger ). Luis Valdez's drama, “ The Buck Private “ explains how the government’s propaganda makes society romanticize war. Valdez supports his argument by illustrating to the audience how society sees…

Domestic products (DP): The products are made in Vietnam, even commodities of foreign brand which are produced and consumed in Vietnam. Imported products (IP): The products are made in foreign countries, especially in Western countries or East Asia countries. Vietnam has gone through two resistance wars and a long occupied time by Western countries and East Asia countries. That’s one of reasons explains why Vietnamese consumers think foreign-made products is good. But the meaning of IP in this…

Soldiers of the Charlie Company were ordered by Lieutenant Calley, on March 16, 1968, to leave the village of My Lai destroyed. During the Vietnam War, the United States supported South Vietnam and were in the process of fighting North Vietnam because of their communistic viewpoints. The fighting had been different than any other war, the Viet Cong's fighting style consisted of sneaky sniper attacks and booby traps. Their fighting style had aggravated the United States soldiers and they soon…

establishing separate governments for North and South . The ramifications of Americans involvement in the war was strenuous on the President. With the deliberation of the peace talks, Nixon increased the aerial bombings of North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This was a concept of his Madman strategy whereby he…