North Vietnam

Good Morning Vietnam, written by Mitch Markowitz, was released on the 23rd December 1987 became one of America’s most favourite war comedy film. The movie starred Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer, who was an Army Force Radio DJ (Disk Jockey), and Forest Whitaker as Private First Class Edward Montesquieu; also known as “Eddie” Garlic. Good Morning Vietnam is set in 1965 in Saigon, during the Vietnam War, where tensions between the American Capitalist government and the North Vietnam Communist…

The Things They Carried took place during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was made up of two sides. One side was the communist ruled Government of North Vietnam, China, Soviet Union, and other communist countries. While the opposing side fighting against them were the United States, South Vietnam, Philippines, and many other anti-communist countries. When the war start it was February 28, 1961 and officially ended on May 7, 1975. The Vietnam War was the first televised war. The war was…

In, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War, written in 2011, David Anderson states that the Tet Offensive can be seen both as an action of survival to initiate a general offensive before U.S. arms further weakened the People’s Liberation Armed Forces and People’s Army of Vietnam (North) and as an act of political belief that the people of the South would turn on the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and the United States. The general offensive did not lead to a popular uprising and instead…

war novel, The Things They Carried, details the motivation and the effects of shame soldiers faced during the Vietnam war. The Vietnam war, lasting from 1955 to 1975, was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam over the idea of communism and capitalism. As North and South Vietnam joined with allies to try to defeat each other, the United States was pulled in to support South Vietnam. Boys as young as eighteen years old were then quickly and forcefully drafted into the war. The war…

The Vietnam war: The War With No Winners Tears began to swell as she held the flag, and looked at the uniformed man in front of her, a shameful look on his face. She knew the day would come, she had seen it happen to the other mothers. She looked at the picture of him, remembering the day he set off to war, talking about how he'd bring back a medal, and how he died in a bullet ridden jungle breathing in pesticides because of the fear mongering politicians. A war thought to last 90 days became a…

postwar era. Through articles that were read for this class, and personal knowledge, of the information in the postwar era, such as music, civil rights, and the Vietnam War. There were a lot of things going on in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Television profoundly influenced and played a role in the postwar era with music, civil rights, the Vietnam War, and the way we viewed our lives. Television change the way music influenced us in the way we saw musicians like never before. In the 1950s television…

This was where she had met my father and they got married, and not long after my two older sisters were born. During the Vietnam War there was another war going on at the time, this war is known as the CIA Secret War which went undocumented for a while and that is why there’s not much information known about it. Prior to the CIA Secret War the United States requested for assistance…

Plan of Investigation The Vietnam War was a tough fought conflict for the United States Armed Forces and those in the Viet Cong [VC], (the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam [NLF] forces in South Vietnam [SV]). As members of the VC lost their lives in battle more and more started joining. The United States government realized it was necessary to bring down the leaders of the NLF in order to have a better chance at ending the war. This investigation will examine the CIA’s Phoenix…

If I Die in a Combat Zone, author Tim O’Brien, argued that the Vietnam War was unjust yet there was still a sense of humanity left, through his depictions of himself, O’Brien and his fellow soldiers in their daily life in combat, how he was brought into the war, and through his self reflection about his actions as a combat soldier before he returned home. If I Die in Combat Zone, talks about O’Brien and the other soldiers time in combat. Things in their daily lives made O 'Brien believe that…

When Richard Nixon became president in 1969, he was determined to end the Vietnam war. He had a few strategies in mind to help him achieve this goal. These strategies include, implementing a policy of Vietnamization, reducing the US forces from about 500,000 to 30,000, and last force the communists to negotiate by conducting air strikes on Cambodia and Laos. The question is often asked, were these airstrikes justified? The answer to this is for the most part a matter of opinion. From March 18,…