What Changed America's View Towards the Vietnam War?

The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam communists led by their leader Ho Chi Minh and South Vietnam anti-communists led by their president Ngo Dinh Diem. North Vietnam was trying to taking over South Vietnam to make it a communist country. That is when the U.S. came knocking on South Vietnam’s door and gave them much needed help in 1950. In Eric Foner’s and John A Garraty’s essay, “Vietnam War,” they explain, “from Washington’s perspective, . . . [a]ny communist anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition, an enemy of the United States” because of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “domino theory” (Foner). Eisenhower’s “domino theory,” was a theory that if communists took over Vietnam, they would gradually control all of Southeast Asia. The first aid given by the U.S. was to France. Willbanks explains in his essay that the U.S. provided France, a South Vietnamese ally, $2.6

The war in Vietnam was a war against communism that tore apart the US. The United States of America plunged together with its allies and played a tremendous role as far as fight against communism is concerned. A huge number of American soldiers were deployed in Vietnam a practice that coupled with much unpreparedness. The soldiers were not aware what exactly they were up to in Vietnam. Most Americans at the time were very much against the act. It was one of the most deliberating wars America plunged herself into and the only one to have been lost. Most intriguing is the amount of publicity and media buzz created by the film industry. Vietnam War was the topic of many television networks, music and Hollywood. Journalist and veterans and scholar were never left behind and went ahead to produce tones of literature on the legacies and lessons to be learnt from the war (Hochgesang, Lawyer, and Stevenson). The exploitation of the soldiers and rejection of the veterans created just as much interest as the war had created. One such commentary came from George Kennan, who depicted the war as one of the most disastrous mission The United States has ever undertaken (Westheider 155-159).. This essay will establish the effects the war had to the US soldiers.

The Vietnam War was perhaps one of the most controversial and disputed wars in American history. Initially sparked by a communist uprising in northern Vietnam, the war quickly became a scramble for the containment of communism by America and other anti-communist nations. After the communists in North Vietnam defeated the French and relinquished their control over the country, a now independent Vietnam split into two opposing sides, with South Vietnam fighting alongside numerous anti-communist nations in a struggle to prevent the spread of communism. During what seemed to be the final stages of the war, efforts were made to restore peace and temporarily appease North and South Vietnam until some more solid decisions could be made about the fate of the country. These efforts included the Geneva Accords, which were later thwarted, and the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.

Before the famous Vietnam war started, America promised we would keep communism from taking over. When Eisenhower and Kennedy were in office they continued to supply weapons, funds, and military advisors to South Vietnam. America stepped in when North Vietnam began to take over South Vietnam. We stepped in to help South Vietnam because they are our allies and they couldn't take on North Vietnam alone. This action taken by the United States government to step in created many problems within our own country.

The Quebec Agreement was signed on August 19, 1943 between the United States and Great Britain and guaranteed that the two countries would share scientific information relating to the atomic bomb project, also known as interchange. From the beginning of the project they had agreed to share information in order for a bomb to be built during the war, but once it moved into the development stage James Conant suggested to President Roosevelt that their agreement was no longer viable. Conant argued that the bomb could not possibly be used by the British during the war and therefore the United States did not have to honor the interchange agreement. The United States was not ready to enter into a post-war alliance at that point and it was obvious that Britain did not have the resources necessary to build bombs that could be used during the war. However, the realities of the post-war situation eventually won the day and the United States and Great Britain resumed full

According to the terms of the ceasefire negotiated between the French, a free election would be held in 1956, and the temporary demarcation line would be abandoned once the countries reunited following the election. However, it became clear that the communist leader of the north, Ho Chi Minh, would win the election, and the United States provided economic support and weapons to the regime governing South Vietnam, and ultimately prevented the elections and began a new war between the North and South Vietnamese (Hook and Spanier, 118). This lead to one of the largest changes in America's policy of containment: the "domino theory". The thought was that if communism won out over capitalism in Vietnam, other nations throughout Indochina, the Middle East, and finally Africa would follow, much like a row of dominoes falling. To prevent this, the United States entered into the conflict, known as the Vietnam War.

"Many may think who was the cause of the Vietnam war what and why it caused, Consider a very highly reason that the United States.War methods were for the employed soldiers to fight the communist, sacrifices made by those that were hurt by the war. Public support for the war and the American government as the anti-war movement went on. Some say it was President Lyndon B. Johnson as he say’s this quote.”I guess we’ve got no choice, but it scares the death out of me. I think everybody’s going to think, “we’re landing the marines, and we’re off to battle.” Said on March 6, 1965.

The Montagnard had suffer the same consequent as the Native American, the conquer of the land, according to the Degar Foundation “In this way, we have suffered a fate similar to the Native Americans, Australian aboriginals, African Bushmen and other original inhabitants subjected to invasion and exploitation by outsiders.” The same way as the Vietnamese is taking over the land, but the solution in taking back the land is far too risky, due to the fact that; the Montagnard population is dropping. It was once over 3 million during French colonialism, today the race has dwindle to only a few thousand. As the tension between the Montagnard and Vietnam grow the safer place to be is in Cambodia and the neighbor countries.

The opinion of the citizens of the United States began to change as time passed and incidents took place. The government misled the people, the people became dissatisfied with the current situation and families were torn apart. As American got sucked deeper into the war, Americans wanted to get out more badly. The growth of anti-war movements was caused by a mixture of different factors.

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 Vietnam War was coming to a close for the United States in the 1970s, as the United States, North Vietnam and other nations acting as mediators began proposing peace talks and cease fires. The problem that plagued both the United states and the communist North Vietnam was their goals. The United States wanted to withdrawal all troops from Vietnam but they did not want to face the humiliation of defeat. The communist North Vietnam however wanted national reunification with the democratic South Vietnam. These peace talks would be known as the Paris peace talks.

The Vietnam War began in the year 1954, after the ascension to power of Ho Chi Minh, who was a communist leader in North Vietnam. The leader was spreading communism, and because the United States wanted to stop the spread, it sent military troops to aid South Vietnamese to stop this vice. The war saw about 3million people die with the inclusion of 58,000 American soldiers. About 150,000 people were wounded during the war. In 1975, South Vietnamese government surrendered the war after the communist forces forced them to surrender. Vietnam unified communism and became a Socialist Republic. Although decades have passed since the occurrence of the Vietnam war, the American culture, which was partly born as a result of this war, is celebrated

The Vietnam War certainly left a distaste in the lives of many who have been affected by the war; scholars have become increasingly interested in the interaction between war and public opinion. There have been many scholarly works published on the Vietnam War, but the issue that will be analyzed here is how public opinion changed the course of the war. The first article by Scott Gartner and Gary Segura is titled, “Race, Casualties, and Opinion in the Vietnam War,” it examined how the diverse races within America in combination with the atrocities in the war led to the formation of opinions that were similar in one race but were different in another race. The second article by Paul Burstein and William Freudenburg titled, “The Impact of

Vietnam exports mainly rice, crude oil, textiles, garment products, rubber, rice, coffee, beans, seafood, electronics and computers. Its major exports partners are: United States, China, Japan, Singapore and Australia. Vietnamese exports was affected greatly because: (i) Vietnam has been one of the countries that have relatively large trade openness and (ii) Before the crisis, Vietnam was ranked the 50th and 41st among the top 50 countries with highest exports and imports relatively, accounting for 0.3% of total global exports and 0.4% of total global imports.

The Vietnam War was a long and catastrophic war. Among the American people, it caused divisive conflict between the state and those who opposed. The main reason why The United States took action was: fear of communism spreading and loss of an ally if Soviet Russia took control of Vietnam. It pitted North Vietnam against South Vietnam and the United States, its ally. Regardless of U.S Military strength, the Americans lost the war and withdrew forces under the order of President Richard Nixon in 1973. Economic, social, and cultural reforms occurred due to the conflict in the United States. Many lives were lost as time went on in the war on either side of the conflict and people, no matter their standing felt for the fallen soldiers. The Vietnam War, in the minds of opposing Americans, has been a tragic mistake brought by an exaggerated approach to communism and an underestimated approach to nationalism. Seeing the combat from the perspective of veterans of the Vietnam War showcases the opinions of soldiers who were drafted into the foreign country. Many efforts to oppose the Vietnam War can be remembered when listening to resistance songs such as, “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield or multiple other musical references to the war. The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien and “Better Late Than Never”, a poem by Del Abe Jones similarly travel back in time to the Vietnam war when they were drafted and became part of the U.S Army. Pieces of writing at this time