South Vietnam

The strategic implementation of nationalism in Vietnam was heavily effectuated in order to attain independence from French colonialism and imperialism. Utilising nationalism, the encompassment of uniting the spirit and aspirations of those that are communal to the whole nation; Ho Chi Minh is the most prominent and successful figure in creating a sense of national identity for the Vietnamese. From the duration of 1945 to 1954, the landscape of Vietnam under French imperialism were detrimental to…

In the 1850’s, French imperialism had spread into a South-east Asian region known as Indochina (the modern world knows this region as Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). Since French colonialism speculation against the French had increased in Indochina, and many natives struggled for independence. The struggle had started when the separated Vietnam into 3 separate regions, Annam, Tonkin and Cochinchina causing grief for the Vietnamese. Although, the French had provided the Vietnamese with education and…

Columbus came to South America, he brought many monks with him to convert people in South America into Christianity. In my country, Christianity entered into Vietnam when Vietnam was a France colony. Then, I…

Communism was introduced into Vietnam by a man named Ho Chi Minh. Minh was an educated politician who was also a brilliant strategist. His communist party freed the people from French imperialism and united the country. Minh took many of his political ideas from other leaders due to his extensive traveling around the world. Minh had learned of guerilla warfare from Mao Zedong, and took ideas of a communist party from Vladimir Lenin. The communist party appealed to class struggles, as it gave…

The Hybridity of Vietnam and American In the United States, there are nearly 41 million immigrants in 2012 (Nwosu). When people come into a new country, they will have their own culture, and it can change after time is passed over, but it is not completely change. It just meshes with another culture. According to the book, “East Eat West”, by Andrew Lam, he said, “the theme of hybridity is central to a global society, and a large part of that entails accommodating one’s tongue to the…

between the year 1965-1966 might be a forgotten history? The Indonesian mass killings took place at a time when Southeast Asia, still emerging from colonialisms, was energized by social ideology. At the time, the United States was already on ground in Vietnam. In Indonesia, it was led by President Sukarno and a home to one of the world’s largest Communist parties and was seen by Washington as the next domino that could fall. The United States saw communism as a threat. ‘The domino theory was a…

The Vietnam War took place from 1954 to 1973. The United States became involved in this war because of the fear of communism spreading though out South East Asia. Throughout the war the American people started losing support because of all the men we were losing. All of the troops were finally pulled out of Vietnam, but not before the U.S. lost more than 58,000 soldiers. The movie Letters Home from Vietnam shows real film from the war, and shows what the American troops really endured. The title…

took place in Cambodia, a country in Southeast Asia. It began shortly after Cambodia’s seizure of power from the government of Lon Nol in 1975 and lasted until the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by the Vietnamese in 1978. North Vietnamese forces seized South Vietnam’s capital, Saigon, and by the Khmer Rouge and its leader, Pol Pot, in 1975.” Around 156,000 Cambodians died in the civil war, more than half being civilians. Like the Cambodian Genocide, a student from one of the Freedom Writers…

jungle of south Vietnam in the late 1940s, during their war of independence from french colonial authority.” B) The tunnels were built over a period of 25 years, beginning sometime in the late 1940s during the war with the french. C).The extensive network of tunnels extended from Saigon all the way to the Cambodian border. The Chu Chi tunnel system contained 130 miles of passageways D). Communist guerrilla troops dug thousands of miles of tunnels under the cu chi area close to the south. The…

The Vietnam War is quite unique in the sense that until the war in Iraq, this was one of the most well documented wars in human history. There is a wealth of logistical reports, video recordings, news articles, etc. that illustration extensive amounts of details. This war has been taught to school students for generations and has been examined, extensively from numerous angles. However, despite being relatively recent, few major textbooks include information from the men that actually…