Ho Chi Minh City

The Vietnamese War has always been a sensitive subject to Americans and the Vietnamese from that day forward. A poem named “Vietnamese Morning” written by Curt Bennett, truly speaks of that day. Bennett also reminds us how it is still affecting many of those men, women, and loved ones today. Curt Bennett was an American flight pilot during the Vietnamese War. Curt Bennett explains, expresses, and tells his experience throughout this poem, Vietnamese Morning. I decided to write about this…

Colonialism is the establishment of a country in another territory often through domination politically and culturally. This act generally occurs with a dominant, superior power and a smaller, lower-ranking area. However, in some cases, the lesser country will not easily allow such colonization to take place. A great example would be the Algerian’s fight for decolonization against the French. This occurrence was examined thoroughly through a film called The Battle of Algiers, which allowed the…

The Indochina war was soon over after the Viet Minh had defeated the French. After the French was defeated, Vietnam was split into two nations, South Vietnam and North Vietnam. The battle made the French military weak, which made recovering take a long time. Even though the First Indochina War ended…

Tuyet had an unexpected fortune to her future when she was brought up in a Vietnamese orphanage and rescued from the invading North Vietnamese army, she has been adopted by a loving family in Canada, Brantford. Tuyet feels touched and delighted with the respect that she receives, but at last as she is uncomfortable to a new language and unfamiliar customs. With having an injured left leg caused by polio Tuyet can no help that she is unable to walk without pain. As she has maniful operations for…

United States found itself fighting a battle of ideologies against its former ally, the communist totalitarian Soviet Union; state-controlled Soviet communism clashed with both American free market capitalism and representative democracy. When Ho Chi Minh and the communist Vietminh defeated the French army in Vietnam in 1954, Americans believed that the Vietminh were offshoots of monolithic Soviet communism, which is the idea that all communist countries were controlled by the Soviet Union. Thus…

America’s 1970s, the decade nickname as the ‘Me’ Decade. It was a time to show your individual choice of outfit and color combination, expressing you and/or how you feel. And the viewer would also see the meaning and chooses the same style of outfit or oppose it. During this time, certain events like the Vietnam War, the protests for a group rights, and the uprising desire for a fitting ideal figure is an example that changed the way fashion represent its opinion in punk and glam look, the…

outside counties. The Soviet Union and China the biggest communist powers at the time backed the North Vietnam. In the beginning of the war under Stalin’s regime there was not much support from the Soviet side. Though soviets did consider the Viet Minh as the official leaders of Vietnam their overall support was not big. There were several reasons why Stalin did this. One reason was because Stalin did not want to get on bad terms with the west especially the United States. He was afraid that if…

As conflicts arose internally in Vietnam, the country was eventually split by the 17th parallel dividing Vietnam into two political sides. (Jacobs, 7) While on one hand, North Vietnam favored a Communist government led by the Ho Chi Minh, on the other hand, South Vietnam favored a democracy and was led by Ngo Dinh Diem. Consequently, Washington, with the fear of communism following the domino effect intervened in Vietnam’s affair to prevent the influence of communism on countries such as Lao,…

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…

had an opportunity to take back Vietnam and create their own establishment of Government lead by Ho Chi Minh then after the war allies gave back South Vietnam to the French while North Vietnam was left in the hands of the non-communist Chinese, the Chinese treated the North Vietnam people badly and that support for Ho Chi Minh grew then in 1946 the Chinese left North Vietnam which left it to Ho Chi Minh and he took over it then in October 1946, the French claimed that they would take over North…