Ho Chi Minh City

In 1975, big events have unfolded, from Microsoft, surrendering of Saigon, to the Watergate scandal. Each event had really big significance during that time. Which still has a strong impact in our society. The most important event during this 1975 is the creation of Microsoft. Which has a huge impact it had on the world.. The Watergate scandal was a robbery, but not an ordinary. The robbery took place in Washington D.C. in a building called Watergate. Watergate was the headquarters for the…

imperialism. The French took over Vietnam and established Indochina in the 1880s. However, the people of Vietnam wanted to be free from France, and under their communist leader Ho Chi Minh they established a military organization called Viet Minh. This organization took over the capital and declared Vietnam an independent country. Ho asked for aid from the U.S, but the U.S distrusted their communist ideals. Instead, President Truman sent aid to their ally, France. During President Eisenhower’s…

that I have to leave my city and go to a strange place. There were tears in my eyes, I was afraid and homesick, but I was excited about exploring a lot of new and amazing things. However, that was a hard decision for a newly graduated Nguyen Du High School student like myself, from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. As an eighteen year old boy I felt I was still to young to make a big decision that would change my life forever. On August 2014, just a typical evening in the big city, I had spent time…

establishing separate governments for North and South . The ramifications of Americans involvement in the war was strenuous on the President. With the deliberation of the peace talks, Nixon increased the aerial bombings of North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This was a concept of his Madman strategy whereby he…

four malls and 54 supermarkets in Vietnam almost double the grocery store company has in China. Despite more exposure among Chinese and China market the company incurred losses in three quarters and experience 18% more sales in its new mall in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. People like shopping at contemporary shopping complex and stores which provide Wi-Fi, assorted products, and global products. So far the populace of Vietnam was consuming colloquial and cultural edibles, but now they try new…

Despite Vietnam being considered a developing country, the CIA released an estimate that over 93% of the total population, 15 years or older, can both read and write ("Field Listing :: Literacy"). Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia that lies on the eastern border of the Indochina. The relations between Vietnam and France began as early as the 18th century. But the French officially formed French Indochina in October 1887 which included current day Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. With the French…

into two bodies who argued the sanity of the other. Televisions and radios covered every inch of the war, from our soldiers to their families at home. Overseas our troops fought alongside Democratic South Vietnam to not only protect Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh and the growing communist threat, but to also put an end to the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia, as or postulated by the domino theory. The sixties and the seventies were a time of change, especially in the United States.…

This event began when the National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese army attack cities and military base in South Vietnam on January 30, 1968. This violence attack caught the American and South Vietnam people by surprise. Why did these attacks catch them by surprise? January 30, 1968, is the starting date of a Vietnamese’s Lunar New…

modernization of society has impacted on the activities of street vendors, Vietnam will lose its culture without street vendors. Street vendors have existed for hundreds of years in Saigon – Dong Duong. In the 1880s, when the French colonized Indochina, the city…

recorded less than two years after President Ngo Dinh Diem, with the approval of the United States, reneges on an agreement to hold a national reunification election for all of Vietnam because it had become evident that Diem would lose handily to Ho Chi Minh and the…