History of Vietnam

stories following an American platoon during the Vietnam War that lasted from 1955 to 1975. The text was written after the war and is O’Brian telling about his platoon and his experience. The text is broken into many different short stories, beginning with the things his platoon physically carried along with the emotional baggage they had with them . In the story “On a Rainy River” O’Brien tells of how he coped with learning that he had to serve in vietnam. The other stories tell of the ways his…

and frail, and the family risked starvation and poverty. What happened? The answer was simple, Agent Orange. During the Vietnam War, new chemicals called defoliants were being used as a tactic for military purposes. One of the most common defoliants used was called Agent Orange. These defoliants were used as harmful chemical herbicides to denature the trees and the land of Vietnam and Laos from 1961 to 1972. Agent Orange had a large impact environmentally and medically creating a burden that…

the experience of being a solider in Vietnam. The book is written as a novel and is narrated by the protagonist Tim O’Brien. Many of the stories about the war seem to be written about 20 years after the fact but the book also includes stories that happened before and after the character O’Brien’s experience in Vietnam. The book was first published in 1990. The big questions faced by many historians and political scientists who examine the stories from Vietnam include: Are the stories credible?…

before war puts an end to mankind” (John F. Kennedy). The Vietnam War was a violent war that had a strong impact on everyone involved. Not only the United States government, but also the people realized it was not always their place to intervene in foreign affairs. But this realization was far too late as the troops had already been sent and the American citizens were forced to live through the hell that is war. The effects of the Vietnam War questioned the ethics of warfare and changed the…

The Cambodian Genocide was one of the most tragic events in world history, and the United States did close to nothing about it. The Genocide fulfilled all 8 stages of Gregory Stanton’s 8 Stages of Genocide on the dot. Classification is the first stage of genocide, which Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge took part in, They classified the people of Cambodia into young and old, educated and uneducated, rich and poor, communist supporters and non-communist supporters. The symbolization used to distinguish…

watched is that both stories catch the time of history. Notwithstanding, Greene’s stories also utilizes their own different speakers and visualizing different imagery that makes a totally unique perception of Greene ability to be innovative in his own way. The stories written by Greene all had mysterious history themes. In 1955, The Quiet American and The Third Man were both quintessential stories written by Greene, which exemplifies the mysterious history themes. “The background of…

The Quiet American by Graham Greene Graham Greene’s fascinating novel The Quiet American is about two men who fall in love with the same women in Vietnam during the French and Indochina War. The protagonist, Thomas Fowler, and another English journalist, Alden Pyle, both shared a love for Phuong. The author of this novel, Graham Greene, wrote many stories that dealt with American and English involvement in foreign wars. Being born in Berkhamsted Hertfordshire, England, Graham suffered from…

Agent Orange Having spent 10 weeks in Vietnam, I felt a personal connection to Agent Orange as well as the effects it had on the country. This connection is what motivated my research and my desire to bring attention to the subject. Agent Orange was an herbicide used during the Vietnam War in the 1960s. It was used by the United States military who intended to gain an advantage in the war by spraying the chemical over the dense jungles of Vietnam. The military hoped that this would deprive the…

France colonized Vietnam in the mid to late 1800’s. In October 1887, France claimed Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as the french colony Indochina. French imperialism was much more unforgiving than that of other countries. The French enacted oppressive laws and unjust taxes onto the people of Vietnam. Although the severity of french oppression varied throughout the ages, the Vietnamese people always experienced…

drastically once the Vietnam War began. At the start of the Cold War, the United States' society was caught in an age of consensus. During this time period, the people of the United States conformed to a certain normality which was widespread because of the Cold War. However, once the generation born in the age of consensus came of age, the age of dissent began. Through expanded education and literary works from the Left, the youth began to rebel against conformity. The Vietnam War provided the…