Government Involvement In Vietnam

The book That Infernal Little Cuban Republic, focuses on the relationship between both Cuba and the United States. A lot of the contention between Cuba and the United States stems from the American view that every country is in need of our assistance. The author details how American officials asserted themselves into Cuba and with their presence in most cases did more harm than good in reference to the Cuban population. The book highlights that the U.S. government supported many policies in Cuba that were undemocratic leading to their citizens suffering politically, economically, and socially. After Castro took power the relationship between the two governments suffered immediately.

Introduction: Cuba from 1959 was a Dictatorship under the control of Fidel Castro. Castro’s Cuba was a communist Cuba, he nationalised all the companies that America owned and made them Cuban, as well as finding friendship in the Soviet Union, leading to the Americans to enforce a trade embargo with hopes of it forcing Cuba into becoming a democracy and not a communist state which many believed to be the reason behind the Cuban Missile Crisis between America, Cuba and the Soviet Union in 1962. Fidel Castro’s rule started off in 1959 by benefitting the people; in the first years he increased the literacy rate to a state where illiteracy was virtually eradicated, he abolished legal discrimination, provided full employment, electricity to the

At the time many countries were against the idea of communists but it was the United States who felt the need to do what they could to stop the spread. President Lyndon B Johnson explains why we are in Vietnam by saying “There are great stakes in the balance. Most of the non-Communist nations of Asia cannot, by themselves and alone, resist the growing might and the grasping ambition

At first in August of 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalists made a treaty to have the dispute be peaceful, but in 1946, they were both fighting over China once again. The CCP had captured Beijing with the help of the leader Mao Zedong who declared the formation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Nationalist Jiang Jieshi was then obligated to migrate to Taiwan where he formed his alternative government the Republic of China (ROC). The CCP claimed to be the party of the workers and the peasants meaning they supported their rights and wanted more equality for them. The Nationalist party claimed nationalism, democracy, and people’s livelihood.

It started with the fact that Japan was at war with Vietnam. Viet Minh was established to fight back against Japan by communist leaders. The moment Japan was defeated by the U.S. in world war two, Ho Chi Minh made Vietnam a free state on September 2nd, 1945. Ho Chi Minh's two goals were to have Vietnam have national independence and a communist-run country with no private ownership of land or industries. The Viet Minh and the French managed to make a compromise of Vietnam being a free state while being in the French Empire.

The development against U.S. inclusion in the Vietnam War started small–among peace activists and liberal intelligent people on school campuses–but increased national noticeable quality in 1965, after the United States started bombarding North Vietnam decisively. Hostile to war walks and different challenges, for example, the ones sorted out by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), pulled in an augmenting base of backing throughout the following three years, topping in mid 1968 after the effective Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese troops demonstrated that war's end was no place in sight. The counter war development started for the most part on school grounds, as individuals from the radical association Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) started sorting out "instruct ins" to express their resistance to the route in which it was being directed. In spite of the fact that by far most of the American populace still bolstered the organization arrangement in Vietnam, a little however frank liberal minority was making its voice heard before the end of 1965.

The Cuban people were mistreated and abused for years under the Spanish occupiers. In 1895, the Cuban nationalist staged an uprising against their occupiers. The leader of the Cuban Nationalist, Jose Marti, inspired the nationalist to fight and was killed in the revolt (McCartney, 2013). This only spurred the Cuban Nationalist into fighting harder for their rights and with a weakened Spanish government they were on the way to freedom.

For many decades, Vietnam was politically unstable. In 1883, France gained control of the country. Later in the 1930s, a communist from Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, created the Indochinese Communist Party (IDC). Then, in 1940, Japan

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

The Vietnam War started in 1962 and ended in 1972. After the war in 1975, communists gained control over the North and South Vietnam. Vietnam declared independence after World War 2. France still ruled until 1954 defeat by communist forces under Ho Chi Minh. When the communist jailed Vietnamese people they took their freedom and religion away from them.

Due to a fear of communism and what some politicians would call a “domino effect” the United States sent troops to Vietnam. It what is one of the countries most lengthy foreign engagements in which a total of 47,434 service members were killed (Washington Post). No longer did the people at home just read about the horrors of war, thanks to an influx in war journalists, people were now actually seeing the reality of conflict on their television screens at home. In response to our nation's continuous involvement in Indochina, protests began erupting in cities like Detroit and Chicago. This only stacks on top of the protests already happening for Civil Rights, and Women's Liberation.

As American and allied Europe were distracted, the Communist Party began to consolidate an insurgency to seize power at the end of the war. In 1940, Ho Chi Minh returned to south China after spending several years in the Soviet Union and in May 1941, he organized a meeting of the top leadership of the Communist Party launching a new movement to secure Vietnamese national independence. In order to broaden its appeal to all Vietnamese individuals and groups opposed to French colonial rule, the newly created political arm of the insurgency, the Vietminh

“Communist rule in Vietnam...would be repressive and antidemocratic..”(Farber,140). Communist rule will not be nice and beneficial to Vietnam, that is the wrong view of Communism. Their oppressive government needs to be overthrown, just like how the British were to the Americans. They got their peace and freedom through fighting. The Domino theory is if Vietnam becomes a Communist country, the rest of the dominos will fall (Farber,122).

According to History.com, the beginnings of the Vietnam War began during World War II. During the world war the Japanese had invaded Vietnam, and to resist this action the French Colonial Administration, led by Ho Chi Minh, formed the league for the independence of Vietnam. After the allies defeat in 1945, Japan retreated and gave up its control in Vietnam. Ho saw this as an opportunity and seized control of Hanoi and then declared a democratic republic of Vietnam, naming himself president.

Ho Chi Minh adopted the Communism ideology to shape the