Chapter Summary: The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War is truly one of the most unique wars ever fought by the Unites States of by any country. It was never officially declared a war (Knowll, 3). It had no official beginning nor an official end. It was fought over 10,000 miles away in a virtually unknown country. The enemy and the allies looked exactly the alike, and may by day be a friend but by night become an enemy (Aaseng 113). It matched the tried and true tactics of World War Two against a hide, run, and shoot technique known as "Guerrilla Warfare." It matched some of the best trained soldiers in the world against largely an untrained militia of untrained farmers. The United States' soldiers had at least a meal to look forward to unlike the Communist Vietnamese soldiers

His foot softly touched the podium and the crowd quickly changed into dead silent. Many people came to the funeral in memory of their lost ones that died in the big war. “Four score and seven years ago” was the sound that broke the sacred dead silence. I stood there in the ice weather, my tears running down quickly and freezing onto my cheeks. I lost my twelve brothers fighting against each other, brother vs. brother. The war was over, but the war inside wasn't. Everyone standing at the speech was hurt and both sides came to realize that war doesn't solve anything, but it just makes things worse.

After reading “The Vietnam Wars” I found out that the Vietnamese are very proud of their country and culture. First of all, in paragraph one, “The Chinese Dragon”, the author said that “The Trung sisters led the first uprising, then drowned themselves rather than surrender.” This quote from the text explains that the Vietnamese people were so proud of their culture they would rather die than surrender. Secondly, in paragraph three, “Life, Liberty, and Ho Chi Minh,” after defeating the Japanese with the aid of Americans the author says, “Ho mounted a platform in Hanoi’s Da Dinh Square and it was decorated with flowers and banners. During the ceremony the crowd chanted “Doc Lap” while they were granted independence.” Hundreds of thousands showed

The Vietnam war is a black eye in American history. Most soldiers were drapted into the war. Most of the soliders did not believe in the war. However, most Soldiers only had one chance to prove themselves to the platoon leader only one thin line between staying alive or dying. Surviving the Vietnam war was the main focus of the soldiers fighting amongst each other. Some soilders left the battle field with memories, but some soldiers memories faded away. Memories is what united the soldiers after the war was taken place. Focus, survival of war and memories are ways that Vietnam became reunited after the war.During the 1960s, Vietnam was attacked by Northern vietnam because of ho chimia wanted a onified communit Vietnam and other etc. The war took place in south east asia. The troops fought in the jongle of vietnam. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross was the platoon leader, but jimmy never focuses on the war. Jimmy was so focused on Martha and lost control over the most important thing that occurred in the war. Focus, is to connect all your attention on a specific subject and item. Therefore, Protecting his men should have been his main priority. “Lieutenant Jimmy Cross got off track so easily, he “moved to the tunnel, leaned down, and examined the darkness- then suddenly, without willing it, he was thinking about Martha” (O’Brien, Tim, (1986), pg. 398). Losing focus during the war was possible when it came to Jimmy. Jimmy was also a trainer in the army. Jimmy tought the troops strategies

The draft of the Vietnam War led to the ratification of the twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution. In order to have a sufficient army, Congress initiated a draft in the form of a lottery to force young men between the ages of 18 through 26 to go into the military. Many people protested against the draft and draft dodgers escaped from military service. As a result of the draft, teenagers wanted voting power during the war so they could have an influence on who became the commander-in-chief and other political affairs. To calm the protest, the Voting Rights Acts was amended to allow eighteen years olds to vote. The amendments were then deemed unconstitutional in the court case Oregon v. Mitchell which created a need for an amendment to the

The year is 1965: the skate board is the latest craze in kids toys; the miniskirt makes its appearance; hypertext is introduced for linking on the Internet; Kellogg 's Pop Tarts pastries are created; Sonny & Cher make their first TV appearance in "American Bandstand”; rights activist Malcolm X is shot dead; the Gemini 3 launched the first US 2-man space flight; and the first United States combat forces arrive in Vietnam. This was not the start of the Vietnam War since the war actually started in 1955, pitting Communist North Vietnam against anti-Communist South Vietnam. The United States believed it had to protect South Vietnam from Communist take-over and is the reason the U.S. supplied South Vietnam with millions of dollars in military aid as well as with military advisors from the start of the war. Eventually, the US had no other choice but to send troops to war and it became the first war Americans opposed publicly and passionately, making the US involvement in the Vietnam War a shameful venture rather than a noble cause. Although the Vietnam War was the first televised war, it is unclear if Vietnam War films are able to give an honest portrayal of the Vietnam War experience, or if truer reality of the war can be found only in textbooks.

The united front had long and historic roots in Vietnam. Used earlier in the century to mobilize anti-French forces, the united front brought together Communists and non-Communists in an umbrella organization that had limited, but important goals. On December 20, 1960, the Party' s new united front, the National Liberation Front (NLF), was born. Anyone could join this front as long as they opposed Ngo Dinh Diem and wanted to unify Vietnam.The character of the NLF and its relationship to the Communists in Hanoi has caused considerable debate among scholars, anti-war activists, and policymakers. From the birth of the NLF, government officials in Washington claimed that Hanoi directed the NLF's violent attacks against the Saigon regime. In a

Consider the Vietnam War, The Cold War, or even the Spanish-American War: it’s safe to assume that the mere mention of these wars evoke some feeling of recognition, whether it resurfaces a rather passionate opinion or an unwelcome flashback to U.S history class. The Philippine-American War illicites a much tamer response, unless, of course, you’re asking a Filipino or a history buff. In fact, the Philippine-American War is often times referred to as ‘The Forgotten War’ for that very reason. Despite its lack of recognition amongst average Americans, the Philippine-American War wasn’t just some battle the U.S won years ago, some footnote in history that had no impact. It was so much more than that. While the Philippine-American War marked the end of the Philippine Revolution, it occurred over a longer period of time with even more casualties than the more recognized Spanish-American War, changed the United States’ role in the world as an imperialist nation, and established a relationship between the two nations that still affect the world to this day.

The Cold War which started circa 1947 is one of the most renowned wars of all time. This war was also very ironic because the main powers involved, the United States and the Soviet Union, were not always directly fighting against each other but instead supported different subservient countries or regions that would allow them to. This usually resulted in countries and regions becoming fragmented due to some faction fighting with the Soviet Union and the other fighting for the United States. One of the countries which fell victim to this method of war was Vietnam because you had a case where the North Vietnam which was supported by the Soviet Union was fighting against South Vietnam which was supported by the United States. The Vietnam war was

A common mistake among the general public is to talk about the Vietnam War. Technically, it never was declared a war; President Johnson never asked for a declaration of war. It was called the Vietnamese Conflict. He instead only asked for a resolution that would give him the authority to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack" against U.S. forces and "to prevent further aggression" (Dougherty). So, with this kind of all-powerful resolution, was there even a necessity for declaring war? Some believe there was a necessity, and that there should have been a declaration of war; others would disagree and say there was no need for a declaration of war. But who really knows the right answer? That question can only be answered on

days, to profect the plan. The plan became unbearable, the plan was perfect nothing was in the Athens clan way to victory.

The year is 1975, its late April, and the North Vietnamese Army, or NVA has reached the outskirts of the capital of the South Vietnamese, Saigon. General Duong Van Minh, who has been president for two days, surrenders Saigon to avoid bloodshed. Even though their leader has given up, many citizens and volunteers prepare to dig in to defend their homes. The United States on the other hand has called a full retreat and are pulling out of the city, the fall of Saigon has begun.

In Ten-Point Manifesto, the NLF, at the end of 1960, presented its idealism of a peaceful, independent, and unified Vietnam along with its antagonism towards its rival the United States in the midst of Vietnam War. This manifesto gained substantial support from abroad, whereas most foreign observers did not realize that the NLF was actually a collaborative organization between North Vietnam and rebels in South Vietnam. In general, Ten-Point Manifesto was an notable embodiment of the shared values of the global revolutionary generation of the 1960’s.

The first person I interviewed was my grandma and she was very passionate about her answers. By the time the war started, she was about thirty-three years old, right after her husband had died. She used to live in Coatesville where she worked as a secretary at a dairy factory, but during the war, she was moved to work as a secretary at a plant that made missiles, that were used in combat. She didn’t necessarily agree or disagree with the war, she just wanted to protect her children; however, she did believe that the people who were in the protest movements needed to grow up and change their attitude. She also believes that everyone should serve at least two years in the service, so she didn’t think that the drafting process was wrong. She also told me that she thinks that Johnson and Nixon could have done more and should have stuck out it out in the war until it was really over. She believes that we should have used more bombs in Vietnam, but she didn’t think nuclear bombs were entirely necessary. Overall, she thinks that our actions should have been thought out more and that the United States could have done a better job at what they were doing.

Heineman includes this footage to set the grave tone for the film and create raw pathos. The deaths of the innocent is incredibly compelling, especially when it is shown as shockingly commonplace.The scene is an effective introduction to the violence of the drug war.