North Vietnam

protesters. This resulted in the killing of four students and the injury of nine. This sparked the band, Crosby Stills and Nash, to write the song Ohio(History.com). They were not the only group to make protest music about the Vietnam War. Many bands made songs about the Vietnam was such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Edwin Starr(About.com). Edwin Starr’s song, War, was probably one of the most in your face notable…

Kelsey Marren Dr. Lammers HI 103 23 November 2016 Expansion in Vietnam under Lyndon B. Johnson “I will not lose Vietnam” President Johnson said after two days of presidency. After the United States suffered a tremendous lose due to President John F. Kennedy being assassinated in 1963, the new President inherited one of the most intense battles on History, the Vietnam War. LBJ expanded the American presence in Vietnam tremendously which lead to numerous financial political problems not only…

with a risky price. At some point in mid-July I began thinking seriously about Canada. The border lay a few hundred miles north, an eight-hour drive. Both my conscience and my instincts were telling me to make a break for it, just take off and run like hell and never stop.” (O’Brien 2) The idea of leaving the U.S to go to Canada to avoid the draft that he received to go to Vietnam, Tim finds this to be appealing. The idea of rebelling in order to remain faithful to his views and idealities is an…

Korean and Vietnam wars. The Korean War began in 1950, when North Korean surprise attack on South Korea. Although China supported North Korea who fought for communism, but the United States supports South Korea who is a non-communist country. Three years later, which was in 1953, a armistice was signed and it symbolize the ending of the Korean War. When President Johnson declared that the North Vietnamese attacked the Gulf of Tonkin, the United States was involved in the…

VIETNAM WAR 3 Vietnam War: Fighting Big Red The Vietnam War was an ongoing fight for multiple countries. The spread of communism was a widespread fear much of the world was unable to bear. Americans were among the majority of people that feared the expansion of communism, often referred to as the “Spread of Red”. There were many standpoints during the Vietnam War era,…

The Vietnam War was a diversified battle not only in race, but in circumstance. Men were forced to leave their families to take part in gruesome battle. Blood, sweat, and tears were shed not only in combat, but in the homes of the anxious loved ones left behind. A small town boy, born in 1948, was filled with eager anxiety as his eyes readily scanned the draft letter stamped with his name just nineteen short years later. Emotions surged through the minds of the young newlyweds just beginning a…

notice to for the Vietnam War. He was only twenty-one. The war seems kind of mistaken to him. Its causes and effects undefined. Before his draft notice arrived, Tim had taken a stand against the war in the form of campaigning for the presidential campaign of anti-war activist Eugene McCarthy and writing college newsprint perspectives against the war. The day of receiving the notice to fight, he thought he was good to go fight in the war. His community keeps…

bit at hardship. Although, JFK’s Inaugural Address happens years and years later after America’s Civil War, but the nation holds a struggle for men being criticized, and being treated unfairly. There is also the factor America is going to war in Vietnam, so it would make sense that they’d both be talking about war and how it’s bad. The difference though is that JFK doesn’t talk about America being together as a nation, but the…

President Eisenhower first sent troops to Vietnam as advisors in 1955 but our involvement in the region did not begin there. To understand the reasoning that led to the United States involvement requires a look back to the beginnings of the Cold War. The Cold War itself can be traced to the end of World War II. The conclusion of this war left two super powers in the world. The Soviet Union in the East with communist ideology and the United States holding to the foundation of capitalism and…

The lead up to the Vietnam war is very significant to why the U.S started to get involved in the war. Once the U.S became a big role in the war and now that Johnson had became President the U.S begun to changed. How the U.S got out of the war was a significant thing that the whole world knew about. Now that the U.S had gotten out of the war, there were things in the war that are just now effecting the U.S. There are many different and significant important reason on why the U.S began to get…