North Vietnam

Omede Professor Epstein History 340-01 Paper 2 The Vietnam War: The battle of The Ia Drang Valley Orobosa Omede Professor Epstein History 340-01 Paper 2 The battle on Ia Drang Valley sets the foundation leading to numerous conflicts of American involvement in the Vietnam War. The engagement between American and North Vietnamese troops were significant in that it persisted even after the American troops withdrew from Vietnam. The stories in We Were Soldiers Once…

The first article that was insightful of the time before the Tet Offensive came from a newspaper called The Tuscalossa News in August 5, 1964 which is a day after a big attack on American Navy by the North Vietnamese. This article goes by the title of Bipartisan Support Due to Action of Viet Nam. Before getting into the article itself the term Bipartisan need to be defined to help understand what the article is about. Bipartisan happen when two political parties that usually oppose each other 's…

the end of the Vietnam war. Today, the Vietnamese diaspora has become the largest refugee resettlement in American History with an estimated 1.2 million Vietnamese abroad who have brought their culture and lifestyle along with them (Phu). However, with so much influence, this leads to the question of “how did the Vietnam war impact the world on the international level?” Prior to 1954, Vietnam had been at war against French colonial rule for nine years in the indochina war (Vietnam War). With…

the Vietnam War (Bia). Although the Vietnam War was difficult and demanding for soldiers, the lives of the Vietnamese civilians were forever changed. The war affected the everyday lives of civilians by either making them flee the country to safety or by the countless attacks or killings they endured. The trials that the civilians faced during this time seem unrealistic; they suffered things that some could never imagine. The Vietnam War started in 1954. It was between North Vietnam and…

The Vietnam War was between North and South Vietnam, North Vietnam was communist run by leader Ho Chi Minh. South Vietnam was run by anti-communist leader Ngo Dinh Diem. New Zealand was involved in the Vietnam War between 1963 and 1975. There were around 3000 New Zealanders that contributed in the war, as medical aid, combat or volunteers. The key ideas of the Vietnam War for New Zealand are communism, causes, perspectives, effects on military and significance. The Vietnam War started because…

South Vietnam were not the only ones being aided by 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…

After the end of World War 2, the Allies gave back South Vietnam to the French while the north was left in the hands of the non-socialist Chinese. The Nationalist Chinese treated the North Vietnamese badly and support for Ho Chi Minh developed. In October 1946, the French reported their aim of recovering the north which implied that the Viet Minh would need to battle for it. The war began in November 1946, when the French rampaged the port of Haiphong and executed 6,000 individuals. Another…

Vietnam War Imagine you are in a foreign country, you see your life flash before your eyes, you hear bombs exploding and guns firing, then you see your best friend die. Welcome to the Vietnam War. This war had the most American war casualties in our history. But this was only because we didn’t want a country to become a communist. We were never allies with Vietnam, we were enemies with them in World War II and we want to become friends with them? Was this a really smart choice for the United…

Well, Everybody played a part in the vietnam war. It was a bad war cause a lot of people died in the war and i think that why you gonna shoot and kill people and just be looking all around at dead bodys like i don't understand that but from my oppoining i think they were just trying to prove that that they would win and the other lost and died. At first Americans supported the war at once but as it got worse they turned against the war. I think that the U.S. shouldnt have been involved because…

involved in the Vietnam Conflict during the First Indochina war which coincided with the end of WWII and the withdrawal of Japanese forces from the region. Prior to Japanese occupation Vietnam was under the control of France and was to be returned to France following the Potsdam conference. Political decisions throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 60s as well as the defeat of the French Military by the Communist Viet Minh led to U.S. ground troop entry into the Second Indochina War (Vietnam) during…