Army of the Republic of Vietnam

The Vietnam War was a war that was fought to stop the spread of communism in Vietnam. The United States, officially at the beginning of the war, were not really involved and only sent a few troops over.The United States found out that the Northern part of Vietnam was getting help from the Soviet Union and communist China, so they began to send more troops. The Vietnam war officially started when this information was found out. The spread of communism had to be stopped and the Southern point of Vietnam

Vietnam War: Another Side of View Growing up in the late 1980s in Vietnam, I was getting a more comfortable life than my parents when the economy of Vietnam was on the way of recovery after the Vietnam War. I did not know much about Vietnam War and what my grandparents and my parents had witnessed and experienced. When I was in Vietnam, I have been told repeatedly that it was a 20-year-Resistance-War against America from 1954 to 1975 between the government of South Vietnam and North Vietnam. My family

The Vietnam War was a 20 year dispute over the political power struggle, unification, and spread of communism in their newly independent country. Northern Vietnam, officially known as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, fought alongside their communist allies, the Soviet Union and China, for what they viewed as their independence and unity of Vietnam. The nationalists of the Republic of South Vietnam fought alongside the US and their other allies in the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO)

met with an overflowing of sadness and anger. Riots ejected everywhere throughout the nation, essentially in dark urban regions. The Tet Offensive was one of the biggest military battles of the Vietnam War, propelled on January 30, 1968, by powers of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the powers

The Vietnam War The Vietnam War is one of the most controversial wars the United States participated in. Communism in the 20th century, was a huge threat to the U.S. It become a priority of the U.S. to stop the spread of Communism. In the late 1940s, the French struggled to control its colonies in Indochina - Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos (history.state.gov). The U.S. saw that the French were struggling in south Vietnam so they decided to come and help France. They tried to support France and the

There were many different combat strategies that were used in the Vietnam War between the North Vietnamese, the Vietcong, and the United States militaries. The North Vietnamese’s military strategy could be broken down into three different phases: Vietcong establishment, guerilla warfare, and conventional warfare. The Vietcong mostly used Chinese versions of the Russian AK-47 submachine gun. They used a number of machine guns ranging from light weight to heavy weight, using the heavy machine guns

To this day, the Vietnam War remains as one of the most controversial subjects in modern American history. The main question that revolves around the Vietnam War, or any conflict that took place during the Cold War for that matter, was whether or not American efforts did actually help prevent the spread of Communism not just in Europe, but throughout the world. While other controversies around this time heavily revolved on whether or not the Americans were acting for the sake of others, or to fulfill

Company, stated he fully supports 1LT JRB 's letter, dated 8 April 2011, seeking military awards for the remaining 13 Soldiers (including himself) of his original 35 man platoon who were left under his command after 8 months of combat service in Vietnam. As the commanding officer of C Company, during 1967, 1LT JRB served under his command as platoon leader. Their unit fought in some of the worst terrain imaginable and they were involved in some of the heaviest fighting that ever occurred in the

The Viet Minh initially started working with the locals and national groups in villages surrounding their bases. Documents of the Communist Party of Vietnam revealed that, “To achieve solidarity with the people and unity of views between the army and the people, the former should realise that the people are like water and the army a fish. So the army should establish a good relationship with the people and rely on the people to fight and defeat the enemy...”. The VM followed these documents and began

The Korean War vs. The Vietnam War Since the end of World War II, Democratic countries were alarmed at the spread of Communism, which was the theme in the Korean and Vietnam war. When the Japanese empire collapsed in 1945, the thirty-eighth parallel on the Korean peninsula was surrendered to the United States (Kennedy 614). North Korea was Communist, alongside the Soviet Union, while the South was Democratic, beside the U.S. Similarly, in 1954, at the Geneva Conference, the Geneva Accords were