Viet Cong

The Vietnam War was an extensive and expensive war between the Communist regime of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, known as Viet Cong. The United States were allies with South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh was the founder of the Indochina Communist Party and the prime minister and leader of North Vietnam. His Communist party was called the Viet Minh. Ngo Dinh Diem was the first President of South Vietnam. He was not in favor of Communism. The war started on November 1, 1955 and ended on April 30, 1975.…

The War We Couldn’t Win Freshly out of World War II, the world is faced with another war. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics begin the Cold War. Tensions between nations were at an all-time high, and the world watched as they competed against each other. The U.S. and the Soviet Union indirectly fought each other through proxy wars, one of them being the Vietnam War. It was a conflict based on two different ideologies, capitalism and communism. On March 8, 1965, the U.S…

Students were often at the front line of the protests as they were the most radical. They organized ‘teach-ins’ and occupied their universities in protest of the war. The students would stage acts of civil disobedience, and publicly burned draft cards and other items promoting the war. ‘Stop the draft week’ rallied 30,000 people to go on a march to the pentagon,[35] resulting, like the majority of protests, in riots against the police force. The movement was an effective way of preventing…

of Vietnam and the Vietnam war, taking a closer look at into people of Vietnam, rather than from a geopolitical or military aspect. Since the author and her father worked for the French and then lived in South Vietnam while her sister was with the Viet Minh, the book…

he was sent off to fight. He quickly became well-known for his amazing sniping ability. The Viet Cong feared him so much that they put a large sum of money for anyone who killed him. Also, they sent out special groups of men whose only mission was to hunt down and kill Carlos…

war was one of the most brutal wars that the United States has ever participated in. Over three million people died over the span of the war and many more sustained life threatening injuries. After the war started, the Northern Vietnam army, the Viet Cong, adopted a strategy called guerrilla warfare. This strategy involved a variety of small hit and run attacks, ambushes and traps. This made it extremely hard for the American army to make any progress without taking significant casualties. Due…

operation did not sit well with the White House as they would not have the control over the operation. As the war progressed, McNamara realized the most effective way to defeat the Viet Cong would be to destroy the direct supply lines from China to southern Vietnam. The intent of his plan was to perform “a total quarantine of the movement of war supplies into North Vietnam, by sea, rail, and road, through the mining of Haiphong and all other harbors and the destruction of rail and road…

experience fighting as a Viet Cong general. He left his wife and three children to defend his country against American GIs trying to destroy the Communist government. He recalls that he spent ten years in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, teaching his soldiers “to destroy the enemy and we made no distinction between South Vietnamese and U.S. troops. We considered them both enemies” (Appy, 10). Hiep’s patriotism is clear in his dedication to protecting his country. Viet Cong guerilla fighter Tran…

military forces sprayed in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971 during the Vietnam War for the dual purpose of defoliating forest areas that might conceal Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces and destroy crops that might feed the enemy. In addition to the massive environmental devastation of the U.S. defoliation program in Vietnam, that nation has reported that some 400,000 people were killed or maimed as a…

Vietnam War Essay The Vietnam War was not a favorable war among people in America. Information surrounding the war wa faked and a war we didn 't need to be in. The conflict was started even before U.S. entered into the war and we made it worse by entering. Some people favored the war, while others didn 't because lives were lost at no gain. Then the troops were treated horribly after getting back. Why would the U.S. send troops into a sensless, unwinable war? Even though the Vietnam War tried…