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Me my sister and my dad was going to the mall. When we was walking around my dad saw one of is friends so we stopped and talk to them. We talked about 10 20 minutes. Within that time period this old man he was in his 70’skept walking by about the 5th time he walked by. I released something. He had a hearing aid and he was wearing a Vetrener suit and hat. Right then and there I released to start respeacting everyone and everything. I also found out right then I wanted to go to the Marines.In…

imperialism. The French took over Vietnam and established Indochina in the 1880s. However, the people of Vietnam wanted to be free from France, and under their communist leader Ho Chi Minh they established a military organization called Viet Minh. This organization took over the capital and declared Vietnam an independent country. Ho asked for aid from the U.S, but the U.S distrusted their communist ideals. Instead, President Truman sent aid to their ally, France. During President Eisenhower’s…

The Geneva Conference was held that same year, 1954. Its purpose was to resolve problems in Asia and potentially come to an agreement on what was to be done with Vietnam. The United States had supported the French in fear that if Ho Chi Minh was victorious, communism would spread quickly throughout Southeast Asia. Though they supported the French, the United States refused direct intervention in the war, which then brought the Vietnam situation to the Geneva Conference. After their…

d Vietnam become an American War by 1968, and what problems did the United States have in winning the “Hearts and Minds” of the Vietnamese people? By 1968 American politicians committed hundreds of billions worth of resources and nearly half a million personnel to the Vietnam War. Which was a war based on fabricated research and statistics, blatant lies to the American public, and cherry-picked threats. Americans provided most of the financial assistance, resources, over half a million…

The U.S. learned of a new power rising in North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh who wanted to gain control of the South making all of Vietnam communist. Through Eisenhower’s tactics (which ran poorly) America lost many of its troops. The domino effect ran through the predecessors of Eisenhower who wanted to continue in his ways. However, each President proved that their policies were faulty and could not withstand the powerful rulings of Ho Chi Minh and the skillful North Vietnamese military.…

The purpose of the interview was to learn about Vietnam, the country where my informant was born and lived until 1975 when Saigon was invaded by the North Vietnamese. In addition, I had desired to see Vietnam from a perspective other than the Vietnam War where Americans fought. However, there is another reason I chose Vietnam, I work with students whose parents are from Vietnam even though the parents are a younger generation their culture is alive and lived out in their community. Some of…

for Vietnamese independence and the decolonisation of Indochina. The Vietnamese nationalism was influenced by Quoc ngu (which was and still is the writing system for the Vietnamese language, that replaced the Chinese script previously), activists like Ho Chi Minh (a man who studied the world and would do anything for his country), and World War II during which Japanese forces occupied Vietnam (a perfect opportunity for the Vietnamese to regain Vietnam). World War II was almost like the final…

“When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o 'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits,” said Johnny Depp about the Vietnam War. History has a funny way of repeating itself, and people have the funny habit of staying stuck in the past. Many people believe the Vietnam War and the current War on Terrorism is a reflection of this. Some people believe that both of the wars are…

Ho Chi Minh once said, “You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at 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…

holiday, there was a surprise communist attack done by Vietnam (History.com staff). Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam at the time, decided along with some of the leaders of Hanoi, that attacking the South during Tet would be a great plan so they dropped the truce and attacked. One reason why he planned the attack was so North Vietnam could finally have the victory they wanted. Another reason was because Ho Chi Minh wanted to stop the attacks/bombings from happening up in the north (U.S…