South Vietnam

First Battle of Saigon Introduction: The Vietnam war was in what could be argued as the 14th year of U.S. involvement when Saigon was attacked by well organized and armed Vietcong and North Vietnamese army. On 30 January 1968, approximately half of the South Vietnamese army’s 350,000 Soldiers were on leave and celebrating the traditional seven day cease fire and “Tet”. In addition to the Vietnamese forces, a large majority of the 400,000 plus foreign Soldiers were relaxing and enjoying the…

public until later. When Lyndon B. Johnson was reelected in 1964, he increased U.S. engagement in Vietnam. In that exact year, the “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution” was passed by the U.S. congress, which gave LBJ the power to select as many military force as he saw best fit. Many African Americans and college students wanted an end to the Vietnam War. Martin Luther King was outspoken against the war in Vietnam. MLK did not think it was wise to spend all that money and resources on wars when the U.S.…

On February 9, 1950, Joseph McCarthy delivered an impassioned speech before the Ohio County Women's Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia. In the speech, chock-full of unfounded claims and comprising anti-communist sentiment, McCarthy claimed to have a list of Russian spies working within the United States government. McCarthy’s speech would have a significant impact on the state of affairs in the United States in the following years and would lead to a quick rise in prominence for the…

A Tet is a major Vietnamese holiday and the Tet Offensive was when North Vietnam did not respect the Cease fire and launched missiles at every major city, capitol, and army base. The goal of the Tet Offensive was to destroy South Vietnams government and it would be taken over by communists. After the Tet Offensive the US divided themselves into two realities. The first reality was that Tet was a victory for the US because the Vietcong were wiped out by the military because it was a…

The Vietnam War was one of the longest and most debilitating wars in the history of the United States which lasted up to fifteen years and resulted in massive casualties for our nation. The war primarily took place between the communist government of North Vietnam and the anti-communist government of South Vietnam which was backed by the United States. The war officially began in 1960 when the Viet Cong began military operations in South Vietnam and lasted until the fall of Saigon in 1975. No…

John Lennon, the co-founder of the popular English rock band the Beatles, once said, ““The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn 't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.” During the 1960’s, the “possibilities” that filled the atmosphere of the United States was challenges of the societal norm on discrimination and an overseas war that consumed both lives and trusts of the citizens in the US. As the 1960s dragged…

This investigation will explore the question: to what extent did Nixon achieve the ‘Peace with Honor’ in the Vietnam war? The scope of my research will assess Nixon’s ‘Peace of Honor’ statement given to Vietnam in the early 1970s to see if Nixon kept his words or not to South Vietnam to have peace with North Vietnam after the Vietnam war. The method used to gather evidence of whether or not Nixon’s achieved the ‘Peace of Honor’ will be determined by the range of primary and secondary sources,…

relationship between them would conflict with reality to such an extent that for this reason alone it would be totally useless.” (On War, paragraph 28) Using the same examples we see that there are clear imbalances of the three during Vietnam. The conflict in Vietnam went against what the American people wanted and was not militarily proportional, leaving only the government’s desire to contain communism. World War II had the three pillars working in tandem for a total war effort. Taking it…

Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to provoke rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States leave the Vietnam War. Though U.S. and South Vietnamese fought hard to hold off the attacks great damages were done. Despite the damages, North Vietnam did will with planning the Tet Offensive. Because of this the attacks were marked a turning point in the Vietnam War and the beginning of slow American…

The Vietnam War was an extreme waste of time and energy in the minds of the American people. They protested the war constantly which lead to tensions against the government. Many events occurred that would tear the country apart due to their differing opinions on the Vietnam War and this is largely because it changed the American economy for the worse, destroyed American family lives, and finally presidents made promises in political elections and did not follow through with them. The economic…