At the end of World War 2 in 1945, not all of the issues were resolved. One of these issues unstable government in Vietnam caused for growing intensity the resulted in the Vietnam War.
At the Geneva conference of 1954 split vietnam in half among the 17 degree parallel. 2 potential leaders with different opinions in vietnam were assigned to govern the north half of vietnam and to the south half of vietnam. However, one of the leaders felt so strongly about his way of government, communism, that he wanted to take over the other half of vietnam as well. This is what started the many indochina wars. Much of this social and governmental distress went on for 20 years before the United States declared war in 1964
One of President Kennedy's points
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The first american troops, consisting of 3500 marines, arrived on March 8, 1965 to defend the Da Nang American airbase joining the 23, 000 members already there.
The vietnam war was among some of the most taxing wars on our nation. There were over 3 million people who died in the vietnam war on both sides. That includes both civilians and soldiers. American casualties were many as well. According to the National Archives a total of 58,220 american soldiers died in the Vietnam War. But this was not the only threat that america was facing right now.
Racial inequality, was a major stress on the government during the vietnam war. Many of the soldiers on the front line were black men. They were fighting for freedom and equality, which was something that they did not have at home. This behavior during the civil war was commonly known as “A black man fighting a white man's war”. The statement in the constitution stating that “All men are created equal” violated time and time again during this
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We can read about one of the experiences that he kept track of in his journal. In his journal we can get a glimpse of just how much a Louis Raynors life was affected before and after the war. He went from having a relatively happy life with his family to spend a year in mentally scarring combat. He then came home and did not get recognized by his family or friends for the great service he had done for his country. He wrote in his Journal on September 25-25 the following entries.
September 24, 1967 - “The first saddest day of my life so far. It was time for me to depart from the ones I loved so dear to go to spend 365 day tour in Viet-Nam. 12 months. My family and my love have accompanied me to the airport. When I arrived it was too late to catch a plane. I feel better. I have one more day to spend home before leaving.”
September 25, 1967 - “Was the second most saddest day of I Have ever live
New Players and Next Conflict 1956 was the year that both Vietnams were supposed to vote on becoming one single nation or remain Independent. However, this vote had never happened since South Vietnam government led by Ngo Dinh Diem refused to take part. The United States, supported the South Vietnam government's decision since the U.S. was afraid that people who vote for becoming one single nation which would spread communism into the South. The United States began to escalate their involvement by sending military advisors to train the South Vietnamese army in combat tactics and weaponry. The escalation continued as the South Vietnamese army began to fight openly with Veit Minh who were breaking past the 17th parallel into South Vietnam.
U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and again in 1962. U.S. involvement escalated further following the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which a U.S. destroyer clashed with North Vietnamese fast attack craft, which was followed by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the U.S. president authorization to increase U.S. military presence. Once the reinforcements arrived the Unites States held power of what was South Vietnam, which is was they desired for. Once U.S troops were in South Vietnam the Vietnamese people felt support and comfort. They were being attacked by their own people which was North Vietnam, all because they wanted them to become a communist party.
The Vietnam war initially begun in 1955, and the Hmong helped the Americans in 1962. The Hmongs decided to help the Americans because the Vietcongs would raid Hmong village and then a CIA agent came and gave them an opportunity to defend for themselves and their loved ones. As well as giving the Hmong people refuge to America if they succeeded or defeated in the war against communism. Countries started to officially pick sides in 1961. This is when General Vang Pao decided to take the United States offer to help in the war in order to have a passageway to the US.
The Vietnam War was a conflict between the Vietnamese government that was under French administration and the pro-communist Vietnamese citizens who were fighting for independence from foreign influence. The United States’ armed forces entered into the conflict in support of the colonial administration in an attempt to stop the spread of Chinese and Soviet influence and communism in the region. The Vietnam War is arguably the longest war, lasting 11 years, from 1964 to 1975, and costing the lives of more than 58,000 Americans and countless numbers of Vietnamese. U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War came about when communist North Vietnam sought to unify an anti-communist South Vietnam (Benson, Sonia, et al., 2009). As the war escalated and the
9 million men and women were believed to have served. Of that 9 million, 60,000 Australian soldiers served in the Vietnam war. Over 1 million troops died during the battle, and 523 were Australians. Many young men who served in Vietnam struggled greatly to return to society. Although most veterans did not suffer long-term effects from the conflict, 500,000–700,000 Vietnam War
Bibi Barrera APUSH 3/13/18 P1 Short Answer Rewrite The Vietnam War was a war that happened to last 20 years. The United States did not agree with the spread of communism so they sided with South Vietnam. The U.S happened to get involved due to wanting to stop the war because they didn’t want it to spread. It impacted the world due to it being the first war to become televised and people were upset because people were dying.
The Vietnam Was devastating time for not just America, but worldwide. This War lead to 1 million, four hundred and fifty thousand casualties from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. This devastating number only increased when you also take into account the other side, the Americans, with more than 50,000 casualties. One may argue that a major reason the Vietnam War occurred was due to the disagreement between the Soviet Reds and the Great Uncle Sam after World War 2. The Reds wanted to spread communism, this left Americans not too pleased because they were capitalist all the way.
The Voices Behind The Vietnam War The Vietnam War was previously one of the longest wars in history, causing chaos, terror, and tragedy to everyone. The war officially started in 1955 and ended long after in 1975. The war took place in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos and was fought between the communist forces of North Vietnam and the South Vietnam government. The U.S. gave its support to South Vietnam as it supported the anti-communist side of the war. This war marked a turning in not only American history but the history of the whole world.
Starting from November 1, 1955, the day the Vietnam War began, the war has brought nothing but pain to the lives of the American Soldiers. They were forced to kill, and witness mass murder of friends and innocent civilians of Vietnam. In order to escape these traumatic experiences, soldiers resorted to drugs. Drugs like marijuana, opiates, amphetamines and barbiturates.
Increasing opposition to the war was causing major division amongst the American people, and many feared that Vietnam could potentially see a victory. This war was by far one of the most unpopular wars to the American people that ended with the withdrawal of the United States, and the unification of Vietnam under Communist rule.
The most challenging aspect of their approach was that they used Vietnamese citizens from nearby villages as their first line, which the United States couldn't do anything about. Also, a frustrating thing for the military to handle was that their mentality was that it took ten enemy forces to stop one of them, making it very difficult to win ("CHAPTER 28: The U.S. Army in Vietnam"). The Viet Cong had a line-up of "approximately 5,000 at the start of 1959; the Viet Cong's ranks grew to about 100,000 at the end of 1964" ("CHAPTER 28: The U.S. Army in Vietnam").
In using artillery and air power of weapons like the M163 Vulcan, M42A1 Skysweeper, and the MIM23 Hawk we were able to take down our enemies. There was 2.7 million soldiers that served in the Vietnam War. In this being said there were 58,000 that died or remained missing, and 300,000 that were wounded. More than one hundred forty billion dollars was spent on this war. The U.S failed to overcome its objective of preserving an independent, noncommunist state in Vietnam, now no one knows how or why we fought this war or weather the military outcome was possible for the United States.
The Vietnam conflict began long before the U.S. became directly involved. Indochina, which includes Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, was under French colonial rule. In 1946 communists in the north started fighting France for control of the
The Vietnam war was preceded by a very turbulent time in our history with problems here in the states such as racism, women’s rights, and a president being shot. But in Vietnam they were going through a civil war, which they had done before, but not to this extent, this time they got the U.S.S.R. involved. It was communist Russia and North Vietnam against South Vietnam. The U.S. started to get
By 1975 South Vietnam had fallen under the control of the communist government. America’s longest war was over, but it took more than 58,000 American