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conflicts since its apparition on the Earth´s surface. The country had been invaded multiple times by powerful nations such as China, Japan and France, but in every case it had managed to recover its independence by the fierce and will of its people to do it. And finally at the end of the Second World War, Vietnam was left with no other country ruling over it, although this situation did not solve all the problems of the country. At this stage the state was divided into two parts (north and…

America shouldn’t aid the spread of democracy. Pushing pushing democracy onto another country is no different the pushing communism. Both are ideologies about how to make a free society but neither are universally applicable. Given that democracy has worked out great for The United States of America and liked minded countries, while communism has had its troubles, my core issue lies with the inconsistent results and the various fall outs that come with branding ourselves as crusaders of…

of looking at the war through a Marxist lens is to consider how it started before the United States got involved. Vietnam was under French rule before WWII, and during the war the Japanese invaded the country as well. Growing tired of outside rule, Ho Chi Minh formed the League for the Independence of Vietnam, also known as the Viet Minh, to fight the French and the Japanese for Vietnam’s freedom (History.com Staff). With that being said, the start of the Vietnam War was rooted in a class…

Operation Starlite: The Symbol for Marines Over the course of the Vietnam War, 9,087,000 soldiers fought for the U.S., 58,220 soldiers died in action, and 250,000 Vietnamese were killed in 20 years. Greg Frikken was drafted into the war after he had completed high school. During his basic training, he scored the highest in Tech Supply, which was his ticket into working with supplies in the military. In 1966, Greg was first ordered to go to Vietnam. After a 30 day trip, his platoon relieved the…

actually Hmong. A lot of the grandparents of the Hmong students fought for the US in Laos during the Vietnam War. It’s a pretty small community. Speech Outline “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” ― Aldous Huxley (project on screen but do not comment on) Introduction: I am here to tell you why you should care about the Vietnam War. I will give a small, not complete synopsis, of some of the aspects of…

years from 1964 to 1975. Before Vietnam was separated into separated two countries in 1954, Vietnam was a colony under the control of the French. Vietnam was controlled respectively by the Chinese, French, Japanese, the French again, and, finally, Ho Chi Minh. Minh was a communist, who led a group of Vietnamese patriots, named Vietminh, and he was able to overthrow the control of the French with the help of the United States. During a war to get rid of the French, who were still in…

The Vietnam War began in 1957 and ended in 1975. The Indochina War was a phase of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam war was called the second Indochina War, Because the fact that it was over the same thing in the same place. The war started when the North was mad that the South was in a region with them. One reason of the war was the capture of Fort Sumter, that was a rich Vietnam citizen. Another reason was the Korean war in 1950. The other reason was pearl harbor in 1941. The Native American…

Vietnam and left, France wanted to regain control of Vietnam as they had control before WWII and before Japan was in Vietnam. Before this, Ho Chi Minh had organized Viet Minh or the League for the Independence of Vietnam. Immediatly after Japan left, Minh invaded northern Vietnam and declared it a Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The main issue France had with Ho Chi Minh was that he was pro-communist. France then, being afraid of communism due to WWII, began fighting for North Vietnam back. …

when they come back, in this case the soldier didn’t even know he had it, until his sister had him move to oregon and see a doctor. Many Vietnam veterans have been diagnosed with PTSD, but there are still so many veterans that are affected by PTSD that do not even know they have it or are affected by it. PTSD is also known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which means that when they get back from serving overseas, they start to have flashbacks or think that they are still in danger or in the…

What did the United States lose in Vietnam? On November 1, 1955 the Vietnam War began. This was to become about a 30 year long war. After the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, America got involved to stop his communist uprising. Immediately the U.S. begins to pour in more and more military into Vietnam each year from 1961 to 1972, and the number of military force increased incredibly from Nixon's presidency to Johnson’s presidency. Since these…