Duong Van Minh

Ho Chi Minh once said, “You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.” Ho Chi Minh might have predicted the outcome of the Vietnam War. In 1955, the US came to aid the South Vietnamese in fighting and defending against the communist North. In 1975, the US lost in the Vietnam War. The communist North took over South Vietnam. The two parts combined to become the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The United States’s involvement in the…

there was a surprise communist attack done by Vietnam (History.com staff). Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam at the time, decided along with some of the leaders of Hanoi, that attacking the South during Tet would be a great plan so they dropped the truce and attacked. One reason why he planned the attack was so North Vietnam could finally have the victory they wanted. Another reason was because Ho Chi Minh wanted to stop the attacks/bombings from happening up in the north (U.S Department)…

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 this. Soon war broke out for the Vietnamese to fight to be an independent nation. Both China and the Soviet Union accepted the communist Viet Minh. Ultimately Vietnam…

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…

the U.S. send troops into a sensless, unwinable war? Even though the Vietnam War tried to stop communism, many thought it was a pointlesss war. There 's reasons why U.S. should be out of the Vietnam. One reason is that the involvement of U.S. helped Minh (the leader of the communist North), the opportunity say that the South was a pupput by letting us into theith sacred land. Since their conflict started between the North communist and the South anti-communist, they didn 't want anyone else to…

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…