The China-Vietnam Communist Party In The United States

Regarded as one of the most controversial and polarizing military conflicts in U.S. history, the Vietnam War has left a deep and lasting impact on American culture, politics, and foreign policy. From 1964 to the present day, the Vietnam War redefined the scope of U.S. influence both at home and abroad, and caused a fundamental shift in American society that dramatically changed the way in which Americans viewed their government and the role of the United States as a world power. For an entire generation of Americans, who watched as the horrors of the war in Vietnam unfold before the spotlight of the national media, the Vietnam War directly challenged the superiority of the American way and the infallibility of U.S military dominance. In truth, the U.S government, U.S. military, and the American people as a whole struggled to accept the lessons of America’s greatest military failure and the sobering reality of the war’s consequences. To this day, the legacy of this so-called “American War” continues to resonate throughout the fabric of American society as a cautionary tale of U.S foreign intervention and blind acceptance of open-ended conflict.

For decades in the United States the Cold war remained one of the biggest political issues. However, the divisive point of the Cold War era was the Vietnam War in the thousands of Americans were killed and back home in the United States a civil war almost broke out.

The conflict concerning Vietnam can be dated back to the Cold War and the fight against widespread communism. The fear of a domino theory in Southeast Asia lies at the heart of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Starting with president Truman and ending with Nixon, the Vietnam conflict continued to become progressively worse with time. Unlike previous wars, the Vietnam War tarnished America’s image as it was the first time in history the U.S. came out defeated while being far more advanced. However whether or not this conflict can be referred to as “Johnson’s War” is controversial. While Johnson is responsible for the escalation of the war, one man can not fully be at fault as this conflict was inherited by his predecessors and Johnson was within reach of acquiring a peace treaty until being interfered.

The Vietnam War was unlike any other war in which the United States has participated. The Vietnam War has many unique attributes, beginning with the unclear reason as to why the U.S. became involved in a war that presented no threat to U.S. citizens or national security. Three unique attributes of the Vietnam War that are very interesting are the U.S. combat strategy, the Vietnamese guerrilla warfare, and the MIA issue.

The day after Congress declared war on Germany (April 7, 1917), the Socialist Party began holding anti-draft demonstrations, declaring the war “a crime against the people of the United States of America.” This alone is mind boggling, because nevermind having to worry about going to war with another country, but now there is a civil war happening on U.S. soil, preventing the younger men that the U.S. needed to defend our country from actually performing that role. In 1919, the Communist Labor party was formed and would soon combine with the Socialist Labor Party as the Communist Party of the United States of America. Through the years, this party would grow to maintain a membership of over 50,000 until the 1950’s, when the party began its steady

Although the United States pushed an aggressive rhetoric against communism developing in the Americas during the Cold War, the overthrow of Allende in 1973 was only an episode that showed the United States’ fear of nationalization and the increasing calls for economic independence in Chile and Latin

Vietnam was originally a French colony located in Indochina. After the end of the First Indochina War when the French were defeated by the Vietnamese in 1954, the French persisted to obtain their freedom. They sought to obtain it by signing the Geneva Peace Accords, granting freedom to most of the colonies but left Vietnam divided at the seventeenth parallel into two different states. The northern portion was controlled by the Vietnamese, while the south was controlled by France, later on by the United States. The Viet Minh, governed by Ho Chi Minh, however were determined to rule over all the territory surrounding its borders so elections were scheduled hopefully to reunite the country under a strict Communist government. The Communists had a good probability of winning the elections due to their superiority in organizations, but the United States did as much as possible to keep Communism out of the South and other regions prone to falling into it. As the new Superpowers emerged after the end of World War II, the challenge of maintaining authority over targeted territory remained, but it was completely challenged by getting involved in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War, being one of the longest wars recorded in American History, was also marked as the first War that made the United States fail with their plans of eradicating Communism to secure land that could be run by an independent government. Additionally, this war was broadcast on television, which allowed people to

Over the course of the past sixty years, there has been much to be said within the context of many political situations. Every battle that has been fought, every act that has been made to protect the rights of the people, and those who have sacrificed their entire lives to make a difference in the world has transformed the dimensions of our political society. I am truly beyond words and extremely thankful for the leaders who have made a difference to better the lives of American citizens, and for veterans who have fought to protect the freedom of the United States of America. However, there is also much to be said upon how each political situation conforms to the beliefs and principles of the Christian faith.

The Domino Theory began in the nineteen fifties and extended into the nineteen eighties. During this time frame, the Vietnam War was in full swing. The end of the Vietnam War, began the Cold War. The Domino Theory, was the belief that communism was an aggressive, expanding imperialism, that would eventually take over the world (“The Domino Theory” n.pg.).

The Communist Party USA is a minor party of the U.S. that is the largest communist party found within the country. In 1919, the Left Wing Caucus of the Socialist Party made plans of regaining control of the Socialist Party of America by carrying on an active campaign to win a majority of the party’s governing National Executive Committee. Delegations were sent from the sections of the party that had been expelled to the emergency convention of August 30, 1919 to demand that they be seated. The Caucus then split into two separate parties over how to respond to the violations of party legality by the outgoing NEC. One faction, dominated by the language federations, was expelled from the party only to join C.E. Ruthenburg and Louis C. Fraina to turn away from that effort and form the Communist Party of America at a convention on September 1, 1919. Today, the party’s chairman is John Bachtell, and membership of the party is estimated to be about 2,000 members total.

Iirc, I was taught that after South Vietnam's loss, Vietnam's military strength was insane (war veterans+logistics from South Vietnam) and might invade Cambodia and Laos to make a united Indochina, which would be bad for China (no "South America" for them, and they already had USSR to the north, Japan to the east, they didn't want to be isolated with an Indochina to the south). Therefor, they made Cambodia a militaristic state that oppose Vietnam, but their version soon became a terroristic state that killed their own people and even launched a full invasion to Vietnam (some said that China urged them to attack because Vietnam would sooner or later invade Cambodia). Then Vietnam won that war also and actually invaded Cambodia so China had to

The Vietnam War is perhaps one of the most unsupported wars in American history. Perhaps the country's gradual involvement in this war is the reason why. War usually isn't a good thing, but this time America was not happy about their involvement. The Vietnam War had a significant effect on the social, economic, and cultural life of America.

The following paper investigates both the uses of tunnels of the Vietnam War and primarily their impact on anti-communist forces. Manifold quotes from American military leaders and Vietnamese leaders, an officer’s memoir, and details of pertinent military operations were utilized to assess the extent to which tunnels affected the enemy. While the tunnels served primarily as a means of combat, they additionally provided the Viet Cong with shelter, protection, and underground communities. The United States entered the war with high expectations of decimating the enemy through heavy artillery. The Viet Cong however, easily resisted the American firepower through the use of tunnels, which lent them much resilience. As

In 1949, Mao Zedong led the Peoples Revolution, which established a Communist State in China. Communism has now been introduced to Asia. In this period, after World War II, Communism was a popular ideology being introduced throughout the world. Vietnam was one of the many countries under the threat of Communism. At this time, Vietnam was a French Colony. As time went on tension started to come between the French and the Vietnamese people. As tension increased so did the fighting between the French and The Vietnamese. Finally in 1954, The French decided that they could no longer withstand the revolts of the Vietnamese. The Vietnamese were now free of French rule. However, many problems still remained in Vietnam. After the war there was a

In a recent documentary about the lessons from the life of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, McNamara recalls an incident that took place in Vietnam in the 1990s. While visiting Vietnam after relations between the United States and Vietnam began to normalize, McNamara asked the Vietnamese leaders how they had managed to continue the war with the United States for so many years, making huge sacrifices in the process. McNamara's interlocutors told him that the United States had misjudged Vietnamese relations and underestimated Vietnamese nationalism. They told him that whereas the United States considered Vietnamese Communists as pawns of China, Vietnam had been fighting with China for a thousand years (Morris et al.). Saying that Vietnam had been fighting China for a thousand years was, of course, a bit of a stretch, but it was a reflection of a complicated relationship Vietnam has had with China throughout history. The complexity of this relationship especially became visible in the twentieth century when the two countries veered from brotherhood to hostility to cautious cooperation. Vietnamese attitudes toward China in the twentieth century may accurately describe Vietnam's overall relationship with China. The attitudes were based on the reality of asymmetric power relations between China and Vietnam. Vietnam honors China's superior power politically, economically, and militarily as long as China honor's