Comparing Communism In Vietnam And Laos

It was very tough for the Hmong’s that were still in Vietnam and Laos after the war. The American armed forces was these people’s only protection and after they just picked up and left for their home shores the Hmong people that were still alive faced severe hardships. They had no food and water and most of their homes were all destroyed. Most of the men and young adult boys were killed in the war and the Vietnamese and Laos soldiers were still pursing the Hmong people because they wanted to terminate the Hmong people. It was also tough for the Hmong people that were left because the American’s had stopped bringing food drops along with medical supplies.

The Vietnam War was first derived from the gradual oppression of the communist party of the north over the region of South Vietnam. The North Communist party was supported mainly by China and the Soviet Union whiles the Anti-Communist party of South Vietnam was supported by United States and France. The communist party group, as known as the Viet Cong, was recognized for their guerilla war strategies within the region of South Vietnam, intended to fully expand and unify Vietnam under Communist rule. U.S. involvement with the Vietnam War starting in November 1, 1955, develops from the theory of the domino effect, stating that if one country falls into communism, a threat that can develop into the encouragement and spread of communism throughout the world in the future. It is basically viewed as a potential harm to the welfare of the United Sates. Therefore, due to the conflicting forces of the historical, political, economic and cultural nature of the war itself, it is known to be the longest enduring war in United States history that altered many lives of the Vietnamese and American community, leading to suffrage and acts of courage.

During the Vietnam War, United States involvement was for personal reasons and fear of communism. Neither the United States or the Soviet Union should have been involved. The War was just used as a cover up for the actual silent, passive aggressive war between the United States and the Soviet. The Vietnam war was started by the North “Viet Cong” and their desire to unify Vietnam under communist rule. The South was against communism, making tensions grow until eventually, a war broke out on November 1, 1955. Five years later in the 1960s, the war was escalated with the involvement of foreign countries. While the North was supported by its communist allies such as China and the Soviet Union. The South was supported by the United States of America. The Americans wanted to halt or prolong the spread of communism. The “domino theory” compelled the U.S. to get involved as soon as possible because if not, the rest of Asia would fall to communism like “dominoes”. The U.S. involvement only started with Eisenhower administration when Vietnam split in half. This action of the United States was only for their own well being and their main goal was not for the good of Vietnam. During this time period the Vietnamese had just united and established the state of Vietnam. The war ended up lasting 9 years with long periods of bitter guerrilla warfare in the rugged jungles of Vietnam which would eventually result in the victory of the North and longed unification of Vietnam

The Vietnam War was a conflict, which the United States involved itself in unnecessarily and ultimately lost. The basis of the conflict was simple enough: Communism vs. Capitalism, yet the conduct of the Vietnam War was complex and strategic, and brought repercussions which had never been seen before. The struggle between North and South had an almost inevitable outcome, yet the Americans entered the War optimistic that they could aid the falling South and sustain democracy. The American intentions for entering the Vietnam conflict were good, yet when the conflict went horribly wrong, and the resilient North Vietnamese forces, or ‘Viet Cong' as they were known, refused to yield, the United States saw they were fighting a losing battle.

during the vietnam war the US fought two wars at the same time the one in vietnam and the one back home between the government and its people. As time went by the US knew they had no chance of winning the war in vietnam so the US then tried to bring home all its troops and get out of vietnam. When a ceasefire agreement was made on February 1972 the US evacuated their troops and left the Hmong soldiers who were left behind to fight the North Vietnamese bye themselves. After US left the Hmong people were killed for helping the US.

“During the Vietnam War, General Vang Pao galvanized the Hmong - an ethnic minority in Laos - to leave their farms and villages and fight the communist invasion from North Vietnam. After the CIA pulled out of Laos in 1975, Vang Pao helped resettle tens of thousands of Hmong refugees to California, Wisconsin and Minnesota” (Robert Siegel, 2011, p.6). These actions had an impact on us Hmong people because without him doing that, me, my parents, or my grandparents wouldn’t be here right now and I wouldn’t even exist. So he gave me and us Hmong people a better chance at life.

During this war, the Americans asked the Hmong people to aide in fighting communism that was tearing apart their land (Hmongs’ land). Because they sought

The Hmong are an ethnic group in the highlands of Laos, the C.I.A recruited them to fight communism, and this conflict far outlasted the Vietnam War, (First paragraph from the Hmong people’s involvement in the Vietnam War). Before, the Hmong people always valued their independence, so the C.I.A recruited the Hmong as Guerilla fighters to help us fight communism

The United States has seen a great influx of East Asian immigrants that desired to become American, but never before had it seen such a desperate wave of Vietnamese as it did in the late twentieth century. In 1975, anti-Communist South Vietnam was overthrown, and fell into the communist hands of North Vietnam (Bankston et al. 24). The two previously separated sides of the country were then united under the Hanoi government, but the country remained torn due to its peoples’ inability to cooperate under a single identity. The Hanoi government did not aid this in the slightest despite all their authoritarian attempts. Their laws and policies, including programs such as reeducation camps to politically and forcibly educate their citizens of communism,

It later exploded into a huge argument and then leads to a civil war spurring between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The war started because North Vietnam wanted to be communist and south wanted to be democratic. It got to a heated discussion that later splurged into a worldwide debate, which later lead North Vietnam (along with other communist countries such as the Soviet Union.) to attacking South Vietnam and other allied countries(such as the United States.). Many of the world’s civilians saw the war as a “waste of time.” or “waste of government spending.”. It ended with neither side really gaining or losing anything. Which leads into the question…What were the all around effects on the Vietnamese in the Vietnam War and how did it affect our world and vets afterwards?

A significant historical event that impacted several nations and had a lasting effect on world politics was the Second Indochina War, more commonly known as The Vietnam War (1955-1975). The Vietnam War was fought between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). When examining the causes and immediate and long-term consequences of the war, it is important to separate the factual historical interpretations from politicised descriptions and ideas. The severely consequential conflict was a result of the DRV and their political desire to unify Vietnam under a communist government and RVNs attempt to stop the spread of communism, with massive military assistance from the United States (US).

In 1958, Communist-led guerrillas, eventually known as the Viet Cong, began to battle the government of the South Vietnamese. The United States then sent 2,000 military advisors t support South Vietnam’s government. This number grew to 16,3000 by 1963. The military force slowly deteriorated. By 1963 the fertile Mekong Delta was lost to the overpowering Viet Cong. The war rose in 1965, when President Johnson issued commencing air strikes on North Vietnam and ground forces, which had risen to 536,000 by 1968. The Tet Offensive by North Vietnam turned many Americans against the waging war. President Nixon, following Johnson, promoted Vietnamization, the withdrawing of American troops and handing over the great responsibility of the war to South Vietnam. Protesting of the war dramatically increased, especially after Nixon’s attempt to slow North Vietnam forces and supplies into the South by sending American forces to destroy supply bases in Cambodia in 1970, which violated Cambodian neutrality. This provoked antiwar protests on many of the United Stats’ college campuses. In 1968 through 1973 attempts were made to end the ongoing conflict through diplomacy. Then in January 1973, an agreement was reached. U.S. forces withdrew from Vietnam and the U.S. POWs were released. In April 1975, South Vietnam surrendered to the North and Vietnam was once again united. The Vietnam War ended, but it took the lives of 58,000

The United States intervention in Vietnam is seen by the world as America’s greatest loss and longest war. Before the start of the war in Vietnam, the thought of the United States losing this war was unheard of because America was technologically superior, no country in south East Asia could contend with them. Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not be the president to allow South East Asia to go Communist . Why the United States lost the war has been a huge debate since the end of the war, because there were so many factors affecting why they lost; the war was a loss politically, after losing support from not only the American public but also the South Vietnamese and losing a political mandate for the war by 1973, when the last

By the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 Americans believed that there are no winners, while the North Vietnamese believed that all Vietnamese were victors. Despite American attempts, with the help of the capitalist government of South Vietnamese, to take control of Vietnam and halt communism, at the end of the war the North Vietnam had total control over Vietnam. Thus it’s reasonable to say that the North Vietnamese were the victors because they gained their independence, peace and a Vietnam free of the foreign French, Japanese and American occupiers. America could have won the war but they were afraid of the cost of winning the Vietnam War, such as the lives of North Vietnamese. The Vietnam War was a costly and confusing war because nothing

Despite popular belief, Vietnam has been the battleground for only a limited number of military conflicts in history. The country fell under the rule of China and France at early points in its history before claiming its full independence in 1945. Many Americans still view Vietnam from the Vietnam War point of view because it ended in a United States defeat. Since that war almost 40 years ago, Vietnam’s leadership has had a plan in place to rebuild the country’s infrastructure and solidify its place in the world. Today, Vietnam continues to thrive economically by taking advantage of its natural resources and location despite being the home to one of the last single-party Socialist governments in the world.