our enemies in these wars were completely different. Yet underlying this there are numerous similarities in these wars. These similarities can analyzed through events and documents from both wars. One of these examples is the massacre at My Lai, Vietnam, which happened on March 16, 1968. Soldiers entered this area believing it housed scores of Vietcong fighters. In reality, there were not any enemy fighter at My Lai and the soldiers ended up killing 500 Vietnamese civilians. Another example was…
Did you know that in 1975 after the Vietnam war over 2000 children were airlifted out of Vietnam so they could be adopted in the United States? This is one of the many things that I learned while watching the film Daughter from Danang. While I watched the film, there were many things I found to be surprising, which I will share throughout this paper. I will also share some pros and cons of interracial adoption, and I will talk about some cultural differences I noticed while watching the film.…
– 1991) was fought between the two powerful nations, United States and the Soviet Union. However, there was never any direct contact between the two nations. In these two wars, the United States fought for capitalism and the Soviet Union fought for communism. They are not participate in the war but incitement to war - the United States and the Soviet using the proxy war to fighting with each other. During the Cold War, the two examples of proxy wars are the Korean and Vietnam wars.…
and United States involvement in the Vietnam War began as a small anti-war movement mainly among students and peace activists. Over the duration of the Vietnam War the anti-war movement gained many followers and grew its numbers dramatically, creating a national prominence in both countries. Anti-war marches Moratoriums and other protests attracted a widening base of support over what is commonly known as America’s longest war. Australia’s involvement in Vietnam divided political and public…
Vietnam War is one of the wars that United States of America was a part of during the cold war to fight against the communism. Frdrick Dowes throghout his book says that this war was a surprise to him and he didnt expect so much brutality to happen. The war lasted for more than 20 years from 1954-1975 according to encyclopeadia britanicca and was one of the biggest indochina wars.The war itself had many casualties that even caused uprisings in the homefront. There are still veterans who have not…
ground in the Vietnam War. He writes about the items soldiers carried on their backs and on their minds. This is similar to other wars such as the Gulf War in 1990. However, the technology, geographical features, and the politics of the two wars have several differences. There are similarities between Vietnam and Iraq: In both conflicts, there was pressure on the U.S. government to withdraw its troops when public opinion and media judgments in America turned against the wars. America got…
polls of Lyndon Johnson's have significantly dropped after Tet, the public opinion polls of people who thought that the intervention in Vietnam was a mistake in April 1968 indicated now only 40%, this is only a difference of 4% after Tet, hence very marginal. It is worth noting that the biggest shift in public opinion towards intervention in Vietnam was in fact between the 1st of September 1965 and the 5th of May 1966 with a change of 12% with the amount of people who thought that the…
I disagree that Vietnam was a noble, unselfish American effort to assist an ally from falling to Communism for the following reasons: First: The Soviet Union and America did not have diplomatic relations until 1933 and fought together to defeat Nazi’s in WWII. Even though these two countries fought on the same side during this time the differences in ideology, political views as well as the economics of each country began to create a wedge between them. The two countries turned scientific…
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…
The United States of America has had a complex history. Throughout its history it has done many things that its people are proud of and many things that its people are not so proud of. The U.S.A as a country cannot forget about the things the U.S. have done badly in the past but, rather, the U.S. must talk and learn the issues and problems so that Americans can learn from their mistakes and not repeat them. I believe that there are three very important lessons that our country can learn from…