North Vietnam

starting to build momentum. The country of Vietnam on the other side of the world was divided by a political treaty after World War II. The North being backed by China and the U.S.S.R and the South being backed by the United States. The 17th parallel was the dividing line that separating the country into North and South Vietnam.(779) America was in the early stages of the Cold War with U.S.S.R. and did not want to see the spread of Communism in South Vietnam. So the United States had placed…

The United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War, a controversial, detrimental, and monumental event in American history, left marks on our country that remain to this day. America became involved in the Vietnam War in order to terminate the spread of communism. This involvement led to mission creep, which affected American culture, economy, and policy. The complexity and sacrifice of the conflict evoked strong opinions of opposition, and along with this force, was an equal force that supported…

The Vietnam War was one of the most expensive and longest wars in American History. We not only paid the financial toll, it cost the people involved greatly, mentally and physically. This war caused great sadness and distress, as well as national misunderstanding. Everyone had one big question being why? Why was the war being fight? Another question was why America extracted from Vietnam. The reason of this paper is to answer these two questions, and maybe add some clearness to the confusion…

military assistance in South Vietnam in order to protect the region from Communist North Vietnam. US officials feared that Communism would soon spread across the world without military intervention. In the eyes of the American public, the war efforts appear successful until 1968 when the Vietcong issued an attack on South Vietnam known as the Tet Offensive. Although the attack itself wasn’t very successful, it reveal to the American public that US war efforts in Vietnam weren’t going as well as…

The Vietnam War took almost two decades and it was the most difficult and longest war for the United States. Thousands of American and Vietnamese soldiers were killed during this horrible war. According to George C. Herring in the first stage of war the U.S. naively assumed that the war would end up quickly, they knew that Vietnamese army was much smaller, but the struggle began when there was the assumption that only military power without well-organized tactic will win the war (412). Despites…

unproductive invasion of Vietnam. In an attempt to contain and defeat communism, the United States, oblivious of the enemy capability and filled with pride, invaded Vietnam at a cost of large financial expense and human lives. The U.S. should not have invaded Vietnam until they were aware of the forces of the North Vietnamese. As with most other countries in the world, Vietnam has a history of being colonized by European powers. The territory that occupies modern-day Laos, Vietnam, and…

during the Vietnam War. Within this war, America faced not only military challenges, but challenges towards their issued foreign policies as well. Furthermore, America’s excuse, of a communism threat, to enter the war not only appeared ambiguous but rather contradictory. By analysing the causes and course of the Vietnam war throughout 1954-1975, the following essay will dissect the difficulties America faced as well as their cloudy morality throughout their intervention. The War of Vietnam can…

The US was involved in both the wars in Korea and Vietnam because of the Second World War. The Second World War included the collapse of the Japanese empire, and Korea was part of the Japanese empire. Therefore after the collapse of the Japanese empire Korea was free and most Koreans wanted a unified state. However the Soviet Union and the US thought differently. The Soviet Union wanted to expand their land making Korea a communist land and the US countered that by trying to make Korea be a…

those odds, you will lose and I will win.” Ho Chi Minh might have predicted the outcome of the Vietnam War. In 1955, the US came to aid the South Vietnamese in fighting and defending against the communist North. In 1975, the US lost in the Vietnam War. The communist North took over South Vietnam. The two parts combined to become the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The United States’s involvement in the Vietnam War was seen as a failure because of its weak military tactics and poor management of…

1. Reasons for U.S involvement in Vietnam - Why were the US so confident of winning the war? The U.S were so confident they could win the war as they had more air superiority than any other country and had enough military power to control North Vietnam and stop communism. - During Kennedy 's presidency, the number of U.S military advisors increased from 600 to 1600. what does this tell you about the ability of the south Vietnamese government to handle the Vietcong? This increase of men…