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Rough Draft: The Vietnam War

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Vietnam War Rough Draft

The Vietnam War also known as the second Indochina war started on November 1st 1955 ended on April 30th 1975. The war was between North and South Vietnam and occurred during the Cold War which was between two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. The U.S and other anti-communist nations supported South Vietnam and the Soviet Union and other communist nations supported North Vietnam. North Vietnam was ruled by a dictator in a communist society and North Vietnam was a democratic capitalist society like America. A war broke out when the ruler of South Vietnam wanted to unify Vietnam but South Vietnam didn’t want to become a communist state so to prevent this they stopped elections which angered North Vietnam and they went to war. But North Vietnam wouldn’t want to become unified if t hadn’t been for the French that wanted to keep part of Vietnam and split it at the 17th parallel. Both sides had aid of a superpower and the outcome of the war was North Vietnam winning and unifying with South Vietnam. So who was to blame for this war that cost so many lives of almost 60,000 American men and 2 million Vietnamese men and how it affected the world; I believe everyone was an active contributor. The U.S and Soviet Union were at high tensions with each other which was the Cold War and they became allies because of a common enemy, Germany. They were both superpowers but completely different and both were always afraid of going to war with each

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