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The Censorship of Ho Chi Minh and The Events in The Vietnam War The main thing we don’t like to think about or igeknowlenge as society around the world is violence, death and war. Most of the events that are remembered most of all in our world are the worst things to ever happen. However the wars are not fought for fun, men and women are fighting for justice and peace; things that are worth a fight to death for. Even when with these goals in mind, some individuals start or participate in the…

The Cambodian genocide was the result of the Khmer Rouge, which was responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people. They murdered many different groups including the Vietnamese, in and around the borders of the country, the Chinese, Muslim Chams, Buddhist monks, and even some Khmers, that they saw as traitors. They almost exterminated every ethnic group in Cambodia (289). The Khmer Rouge desired for Cambodia to be as they once were in the Angkor Empire, a powerful nation. The Khmer…

The cold war was one of the longest international conflicts of the twentieth century, in which capitalism and communism fought to rule over each other. Within this conflict lots of wars and battles where held in order to try and solve the different issues, although none of this wars took place neither on the United States or the Soviet Union. So the satellite states that each of these nations had been used for this purpose. The Vietnam War was one of the cases in which the Cold War turned into…

America shouldn’t aid the spread of democracy. Pushing pushing democracy onto another country is no different the pushing communism. Both are ideologies about how to make a free society but neither are universally applicable. Given that democracy has worked out great for The United States of America and liked minded countries, while communism has had its troubles, my core issue lies with the inconsistent results and the various fall outs that come with branding ourselves as crusaders of…

of looking at the war through a Marxist lens is to consider how it started before the United States got involved. Vietnam was under French rule before WWII, and during the war the Japanese invaded the country as well. Growing tired of outside rule, Ho Chi Minh formed the League for the Independence of Vietnam, also known as the Viet Minh, to fight the French and the Japanese for Vietnam’s freedom (History.com Staff). With that being said, the start of the Vietnam War was rooted in a class…

Operation Starlite: The Symbol for Marines Over the course of the Vietnam War, 9,087,000 soldiers fought for the U.S., 58,220 soldiers died in action, and 250,000 Vietnamese were killed in 20 years. Greg Frikken was drafted into the war after he had completed high school. During his basic training, he scored the highest in Tech Supply, which was his ticket into working with supplies in the military. In 1966, Greg was first ordered to go to Vietnam. After a 30 day trip, his platoon relieved the…

Part I: High School Description: I come from a relatively small town of about 15,000 people. It’s definitely more of a rural high school. I draw this conclusion because there is a day set aside where some people can drive their tractors to school. I would say it is mainly made up of middle class kids. My high school was the only school for a significant amount of miles, therefore there definitely was a mix of classes. Ethnically wise, my high school is predominately white. The school is made of…

years from 1964 to 1975. Before Vietnam was separated into separated two countries in 1954, Vietnam was a colony under the control of the French. Vietnam was controlled respectively by the Chinese, French, Japanese, the French again, and, finally, Ho Chi Minh. Minh was a communist, who led a group of Vietnamese patriots, named Vietminh, and he was able to overthrow the control of the French with the help of the United States. During a war to get rid of the French, who were still in…

The Vietnam War began in 1957 and ended in 1975. The Indochina War was a phase of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam war was called the second Indochina War, Because the fact that it was over the same thing in the same place. The war started when the North was mad that the South was in a region with them. One reason of the war was the capture of Fort Sumter, that was a rich Vietnam citizen. Another reason was the Korean war in 1950. The other reason was pearl harbor in 1941. The Native American…

Vietnam and left, France wanted to regain control of Vietnam as they had control before WWII and before Japan was in Vietnam. Before this, Ho Chi Minh had organized Viet Minh or the League for the Independence of Vietnam. Immediatly after Japan left, Minh invaded northern Vietnam and declared it a Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The main issue France had with Ho Chi Minh was that he was pro-communist. France then, being afraid of communism due to WWII, began fighting for North Vietnam back. …