The Fall Of Saigon And The United States

The political instability in Vietnam from 1950 to 1975 between the communist North Vietnam and anti-communist South Vietnam during the Cold War era has led to the United States’ inevitable intervention in Vietnam. The main motivators for the United States’ incremental decision to intervene and commitment in Vietnam can be viewed as an accumulation of socio-political, political and economic catalysts. In recognition that there were many other factors that may have contributed to the U.S’s involvement in the conflict in Vietnam, this essay will largely focus on these three factors. As the cold war resonates, the American’s crusade was propelled by the fears of the domino theory and perception of Communist threat and expansion affected the

Many soldiers have been lost in the different wars that the United States has been involved. Although there have been many wars only one is unique from the others, it is known as the war that was never won or lost. The Vietnam War started out as a conflict but soon escalated into a full-fledged war. Many soldiers have been lost in the Vietnam War. The United States sent many soldiers into the jungles of Indochina trying to stop the spread of communism from the North Vietnamese. It all seems clear-cut, with the motives and sides easily seen but as the war lagged on, it seemed that the United States became involved, and essentially needed a draft. The United States involvement in the Vietnam War became

He feels Yanagi’s pain through the connection but he does not draw attention to it. To be in the heat of a powerplay game such as the one boiling over in Konoha right now is a moment of extreme delicacy and ruthlessness; attachments are withheld, persons numbed down. The rampant mentality is this: eliminate those who are likely to get in one’s way, even if they are friends, or valuable allies. Nobody who lived through the Warring States Era would be unfamiliar with this tenet: do what must be done. And if Tobirama was forced to choose among the Yamanaka twins, he would keep Yanagi alive, simply because she is now the more valuable of the two, even though Yanagi herself and most definitely, not Osamu, would admit it. For to dabble in politics is to know who has value, worth and utility, and who do not.

The authors of these texts want to show that the fall of Saigon was traumatic to the people of South Vietnam. One reason to support this idea is that in the poem Saigon is Gone, Ha and her family are on a ship heading towards safety when a helicopter begins circling the ship when Mother is seasick, “People run and scream, Communists! This is not helping Mother” (Lai 67-68). This is showing that the refugees are frightened of the helicopter, believing it to be North Vietnamese. The loss of their country and home has been a traumatic experience. Later the commander of the ship says, “Do not be frightened! It’s a pilot for our side who has jumped into the water, letting his helicopter plunge in behind him” (Lai 68). Furthermore, in the transcript

Communism- a system of economics and politics created by Karl Marx in which everything in the nation is publicly owned

“The Communist Party of Vietnam [CPV], became the ruling party, in the northern part of Vietnam, after defeating the French, at Dien Bien Phu, in 1954 and across the nation, since 1976, following the collapse of the American-backed southern regime. The next decade saw the CPV’s rationalist installation of a Stalinist-style centrally planned economy” (Nguyen, 2016, p. 33). The social structure of Vietnam based on total control, Nguyen’s family like many others found it impossible to adjust to the tyranny imposed by the Communist regime, therefore, they fled Vietnam!

What is communism? Communism is a term used broadly to designate a ‘theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.’ It refers to the doctrine which underlines the revolutionary movement which aims to abolish capitalism and ultimately to establish a society in which all goods will be socially owned, all economic activates socially planned and controlled, and in which all distributions will be in accordance with the maxim. German author Emil Ludwig described the maxim as “for each according to his capacity, to each according to his need.”(1) It is to be distinguished from socialism which aims by constitutional and democratic

Americans believed that there is such a thing as a domino effect and they thought that if South Vietnam fell to communism the neighboring

The history of recent years in the Indochina conflict has been an eventful one. It will exhibit to the eyes of the future student some of the most remarkable instances of a ruthlessness and indifference to common humanity. Moreover, it will, I believe, demonstrate that North Vietnam has, for a long time, steadily pursued a communist regime which was deliberately designed to produce a subjugation of other countries by the threat of communism.

The tone of these stories is hopeless. For instance in Inside Out and Back Again the helicopter pilot says “ At noon today the communists crashed their tanks through the gates of the presidential palace …” (Lai 69). This shows the communist took over the palace which is in Saigon now people are going to lose hope about South VIetnam winning the war. The pilot also says “ It’s over; Saigon is gone...”(Lai 69). This definitely means Saigon has fallen to the communist and if people didn’t lose hope before they have now, their capital is no more. In the story Forgotten Ship a southern Vietnamese pilot drops people from his helicopter because it is to big to land Hugh Doyle says “This huge airplane comes in and hovers over the fantail, opened up

The Vietnam War started on November 1, 1955. 9,087,000 military personnel served on active duty during the Vietnam Era. Those that went into the war zone suffered, not only from wounds but also from a variety of jungle diseases and malnutrition. One of the few sources of clean water came from water purification tanks at Vietnamese refugee camps.Preventive medicine teams worked to control rodent and insect infestations, spray for malarial mosquitoes, and purify unclean water.

1970-1990 Fall of Saigon: On April twenty ninth,nineteen seventy five The North Vietnamese Army came to saigon Americans knew of them being there so they left quickly in helicopters and other aircrafts.After the army took over the city was called Ho Chi Minh this is sugnificant because america left so easily they lost with no fight at all something could have been done to keep the land.our military left the city fast to i dont see why they wouldnt stay and fight for what belonged to them. If I was in the army i would have wanted to fight for our country its a team effort.

Socialism and communism ideologies became popular in Southeast Asia and other parts of the colonial world because they acted like an ideology of removing colonialism and putting the power back into the hands of the citizens. This is due to the core battle of capitalism vs nationalism, which could be shown from the bureaucratic view that professor Culliane, where the bureaucrats who control the Means of Production (MOP) (lecture, 1/26). For example, Ho Chi Minh wanted to get Vietnam out of French colonialism because they were getting taxed very hard, which could have increased especially due to the necessities needed when the European markets, like France, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, were struggling during the end of WWII (Leffer, 68). Therefore, if Vietnam could get out of colonialism rule they could become their individual nation without having strict rules imposed on them, even if it meant losing the ease of protection or aspects of modern industrialism (lecture, 1/26). Therefore, a new ideology needed to be put into play, and many of the revolutionary leaders found great interests in Lenin’s beliefs and communism, in general. The reasons being is because it was almost an opposite of what was happening to them, and it focused more on having the working class come into power for the country, which was a majority of the people on the side of people like Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong during their revolutions. The combination of removing colonialism and regaining a sense

5. Communism – a revolutionary socialist movement to create classless, money less, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production as well as social, political and economics ideology.

     What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. It also can be defined as a conceptualized system of government in which resources and production facilities are the property of the entire society rather than individuals. In a communist society, labor is shared equally as well, and the benefits of labor are distributed according to need (Communism.4all 1). No one person shall be ranked higher than another and there is to be one person in charge of the society in a communism government. There are still to this day many countries that fall under the rule of communism and the ways they were transformed under communist rule is quite interesting.