The Legacy of the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War is widely regarded as the lowest point in the history of U.S. foreign affairs. It mercilessly dragged an unwilling country on a fatal ride for twenty years, all while receiving low approval ratings and high funding. The Vietnam conflict served as an optimum environment for the virus of controversy. No one has more experience with controversy than Heinz Alfred Kissinger. He is the ultimate pragmatist, as embodying his philosophy of realpolitik, a diplomatic ideology based on utilitarianism rather than international ethical standards. When one’s political calling card downplays the role of ethics in diplomacy, that individual is bound to garner a high profile reputation. Kissinger himself has lamented the national predicament during this conflict—squeezed between the ultimate rock, his duty to keep peace, and hard place, his duty to act with the approval of the American people. This predicament was rooted in an omnipresent opposition to Communism, as was America’s role in the entire Cold War. Cold War politics were politics of fear. That fear drove competition, which bred a certain variety of leader – a logical, calculating politician with regard for nothing but his country’s success. To avoid an uncontrollable spread of Communism through the westernized world, some moral casualties were strewn about the wayside. However, the American public had no trouble rolling up their collective sleeves to back this forward-thinking activist. In more recent years, some

In the history of the United States, few years could be viewed as being more important than 1968. While there were years in American history of great significance, 1968 has the distinction of being a year in which civil unrest, social progress, and the state of change were the norm, and featured events that affected not only America, but the world as a whole. With the condition of America at the time, society was going through changes that would go on to have massive impact on how the world would progress, with some of these events having effects years afterwards.

Cellular telephones, Pepsi Max, and Pacemakers- all of these were invented in Jerald Brenhofer’s lifetime1. From the invention of cellphones that allowed him to talk with his expanding family as it spread beyond his physical reach to Boston and Chicago, to his favorite soda, Brenhofer lived a rich life, full of his favorite things and people. Born in 1942, in the throes of World War II and the lingering aftershocks of the Great Depression, the movement of social and technological change that Brenhofer experienced was more than a quantitative list of advancements and historical events, but the melding of the two into a continual and formative span of life.

As a society, we are gradually losing faith in our political system. We live in a country casted by a shadowed of dark cloud, clouds of lie and arrogance. The Vietnam War, a war in which we are set up to believe is a war against communist, a war in which the United States felt they could have won, yet didn 't. We brainwash our children to believe that the Indians and the pilgrims enjoyed a festive celebration yet we don 't acknowledge that we wiped out almost their entire population and take over their land. The foundation of our political system is based on sovereignty and equality where every votes count yet we all know that the country wealthiest corporations and non-profit organizations influence the political system. Their money and domination control who is elected into office thus making the rest of the country unwilling to cast their vote. Under the constitution, we are programmed to trust and believe in our political system, that all man are created equal, yet history have proven endless counts of racism and hatred in our country. since the assembling of our Constitution, we have not strive far from the inequality and control that we have set out to change. The United State is still trapped in the past.

The Vietnam War took place in between 1947- 1975. It consisted of North Vietnam trying to make South Vietnam a communism government. The United States later joined this conflict because of the stress North Vietnam was putting to South Vietnam to become a government that America did not want. The main reason why America joined was because of a theory called the Domino Effect. America and Russia were going through what has been dubbed the Cold War. The Domino Effect is the theory that communism will spread form one country to another. United states does not want this because our

The Vietnam War started in 1954. It was between North Vietnam and the Vietcong (South Vietnamese communists) VS South Vietnam and America. More than 3 million people were killed including 58,000 Americans. The Vietnam War is one of the longest wars America has been a part of. It is also

On November 1 of 1955 was the start of one of the largest colonial war, the Vietnam War. The war lasted from November 1, 1955 to the April of 1975, approximately 19 years and 5 months. The war was a fight between South Vietnam, anti-communist, and North Vietnam, the communist. The South Vietnamese were supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. While North Vietnamese were backed up by the Soviet Union and its communist allies. After the war, there a big controversy on why the U.S. lost a winnable war and why they backed out.

The Vietnam War of 1955-1975 was one of the most unsupported and controversial wars to date in all of American history. It occurred in present day Vietnam (Southeast Asia). It was all around caused by the fact that two powers in Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, united and started to press and force a communist government system over all of the nation of Vietnam. As the result the Republic of Vietnam, the U.S., and their allies fought to abolish the communist government in Vietnam and to stop the spread of communist rule. The U.S. had been helping the French forces who were trying to keep a handle on their colony, who were imperialists. Because the U.S. and the French were allies and because the French was defeated, the U.S. sent out many troops

The Vietnam War was a conflict between the North and South of Vietnam along with the USA.

The Vietnam War was probably one the most infamous war in the history of the United States. Vietnam was divided into North and South Vietnam as a result of the Indochina War. North Vietnam belonged to the Communists and its allies after World War II and South Vietnam belonged to the anti-Communist supporters and their allies (the U.S was one of South Vietnam’s allies). It all started as an effort by America to keep South Vietnam away from Communism. Americans feared that if South Vietnam adapted and accepted Communism like North Vietnam did, then the rest of the world would gradually do the same. This was much commonly known as the domino theory. America was afraid that Communism would spread and expand all over South Asia and eventually

Although the Vietnam War was supported by a small number of Americans, it was the first war in American history that was not supported by the majority of Americans, for good reason. The Vietnam War had imperfect goals from the beginning. The execution of the war was flawed as well. The Vietnam War damaged America’s reputation, as it was the first war that America had not emerged from victorious. The Vietnam War also caused a shift in the way that the American population viewed war. This war changed both the physical ways people learned about events happening in the war and their overarching opinions of war in general. Finally, the Vietnam War hurt the home front of the

The Vietnam War was a twenty year war that started on 1955. During this time period, known as The Cold War, communism was spreading rapidly throughout East Asia. It was a battle between Democracy and Communism; the communist party consist of North Vietnam, the Vietcong, People’s Republic of China, Soviet Union, and other communist allies, while South Vietnam had support from anti-communist countries and nations of SEATO, South East Asia Treaty Organization, United States, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand, Khmer Republic, Kingdom of Laos and Republic of China (Taiwan). The Vietnam War was a horrendous war that developed through political desires and involved many nations to wage war against each other; the War partook in new strategic warfare, Agent Orange, a biochemical weapon, give veterans psychological trauma, and cold blooded massacre against innocent men, women

The Vietnam War occurred in 1954 and ended in 1975, which was a long-running and traumatic conflict between the communist forces in the Northern Vietnam back by China and Soviet Union against a South Vietnamese non-communist government supported by the United States . The war caused 3 million people dead, including more than 50,000 Americans and at least 1 million of Vietnamese civilians . The

“The Vietnam war was a costly and very long conflict that eroded the communist regime of North Vietnam and its allies against the South Vietnam and its ally, us the United States of America (Unknown Source).” The Vietnam War began on the eve of 1959, causing a struggle between two of our major national forces. These two forces were attempting to unify the country the both love, Vietnam.

The Vietnam War was Armed Conflict, costly, long, which opposed the communist regime of North Vietnam and the southern allies, known as the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and its main ally, the United States. Controversial war, increasingly unpopular at home, and ended with the withdrawal of US troops in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans