The Vietnamese war started on May 8th 1950. The first US personnel deployed November 1 1955. The war was fought between North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by China, Soviet Union, and other communist allies. While South Vietnam was being supported by the United States,Philippians, and many other anti communist allies. The war was against the spread of communism. Over 58,000 deaths of Americans were reported. The last troops were evacuated by March 29th 1973. It was the longest war
The Vietnam War wasn’t a war that the Americans needed to get involved in because at first it was a war between South and North Vietnam. The Fighting in Vietnam spanned the period 1940-1975. The Americans only got involved in order to help stop the communist North Vietnamese from taking over South Vietnam, America wanted to stop spread of communism. To do the United States military firmly believed in air power, launching major bombing offensives that would leave so devastation behind that craters
I think that the opportunity for Ha and her family to stay in Saigon is going to come more and more difficult and the author's word choice in the writings make us feel hopelessness and sadness.. For example, when “...the Communists crashed their tanks...planted a flag with one huge star.” (Lai 69) This really told the southern Vietnamese that this country no longer belonged to them but had been taken over. The words like “Crashed” and “Planted”really create an image of someone being a boss and taking
The Devastation the Vietnam War Caused The Hmong people came from Southern China, Laos, Vietnam,and Thailand. There was a war that was brewing in the horizon. A war between North and South Vietnam. The United States military will be right there to fight alongside the south. It will be a deadly war that will leave many without hope. We recruited the Hmong people because they could speak their native language well and could communicate with others in their country. They knew their way around vietnam
The war in Vietnam lasted 20 years from 1955 to 1975. The war was between North Vietnam, and South Vietnam. The North was communist and supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist countries, and the South was supported by the United States, Australia, and other anti-communist countries. Many people were against the war and there were many protest and artists protested as well. Artistic Protest Artists also found themselves involved in many of these protests. Many Artists wanted to
Essay Two: Discuss French colonialism in Vietnam To justify the French conquest over Indochina, the French claimed that they were conducting a “civilizing mission” in Indochina, “France would introduce the fruit of the Western civilization—democratic institutions, capitalist economies, modern technology, and French culture—to its subject peoples in Indochina, thus enabling them to complete in a social-Darwinist world of ‘survival of the fittest’” (Duiker 11). In actuality, the French wanted to establish
Vietnam makes up a major part of Indochina, a region whose religions, philosophies, art, and political organizations were dominated by India and China for two millennia (Buttinger 1968). The region of Indochina retained its identity, despite the ideology of China that led to continual interference in the region (Luttwak 2012). Indeed, different Chinese dynasties had made continual efforts to invade and assimilate Vietnam for around a thousand years before the first central feudal government was formed
The Vietnam War began soon after World War II. At first , in 1946, the war was between the Vietnamese and the French. The government was French, but many Vietnamese people did not want a French government. They wanted the French to leave so they could have their own government. The Vietnamese fought hard, and slowly they won more and more land. By 1953. The French army was in trouble. They were not winning the war. French soldiers were dying and the war was costing a lot of money. So, in 1954, the
a result of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu after the US-led attempt to protect the deteriorating French position had failed. France, a colonial power in Vietnam had struggled to remain authoritative in a country fighting for their independence after Ho Chi Minh’s Declaration of Independence following the August Revolution in 1945. We can use political cartoons and images to decipher the differing interpretations of what historians and commentators thought of the time, to understand the cause and effect
In January 30, 1968, the Tet Offensive, name for the Vietnamese Lunar New Year on which the North Vietnamese Army launched a huge surprise large-scale attacks against the South Vietnamese government and the U.S military which is marked the beginning of the end of the U.S military present in Vietnam and its role in the war. Even though the U.S won during the battle of the Tet Offensive and they have suffered a great loss of many American lives. This attacks has proved that the American military once