Napalm

Conflict Throughout a War Regarded as the longest war in all of United States History, lasting from 8 May 1950- 15 August 1975, the Vietnam War is one of the most controversial wars. Supporters of the war believed in the Domino Theory and were convinced that the United States needed to stop the possible spread of Communism. However, because this was a civil war between the North and South, many felt that the United States did not need to interfere with it. The United States ultimately lost the Vietnam

them and that was the end of the Byzantine Empire. When the Napalm bomb was created the only one that knew about it was the United States. The U.S. bombed Japan with this weapon, they will not know what just hit them. The U.S. Chemical Warfare Service added rubber to the gasoline to produce a jelly mixture which would burn longer, would be harder to put out and would stick to the victim, causing fatal injuries (“Liquid Fire”). When the Napalm bomb was created it was probably one of the strongest weapons

1. The Vietnam War, 1954-1975, started as a conflict between Vietnam and France as an Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam. After many years, the French were defeated at a mountain outpost called Dien Bien Phu, which showed the French that they can no longer keep control in Vietnam and resulted in the French making a peace agreement with Vietnam in Geneva, Switzerland in 1954. The Geneva Peace Accords was a temporary agreement of a partition between Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel. In addition

example of this was the Napalm girl which was a famous photograph taken by Nick Ut. The Napalm bombing was screened on the TVs of the homes of all Australians which allowed them to see the reality of the horror of the war. The photo of the Napalm girl was taken on the 8th of June, 1972 which contains a young Vietnamese girl, who was approximately 9 years old at the time, running naked on the road, beside other Vietnamese children, with severe burns on her back due to the Napalm bombing which destroyed

for America. The United States withdrew in defeat. In my opinion, the Vietnam war was not worth it. The financial cost was terrible and really damaged the economy. And the loss of soldiers is immeasurable. Taking a look at the civilians.the use of napalm caused severe damage to the climate. And to this day, it causes a disease known as Orange Fever which killed hundreds. And hundreds of still active landmines spread all over Vietnam killing at least 100 people a year. The fighting has badly damaged

soldiers came up with strategies to kill off the Vietcong, but occasionally the United States was not sure who were Vietcong and who were not. Napalm was a jellied gasoline that explodes when dropped in large canisters the napalm was usually dropped on villages. When the napalm was dropped on the villages, the Vietnamese houses and vegetation were destroyed. Napalm burned men, women, and children who were in the villages the clothes would burn completely off their bodies. Agent orange another substance

The impact of the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were the most destructive singular air strikes against Japan. However, fire raids conducted by Major General Curtis E. Lemay were a significant factor in the air campaign against Japan. They also inflicted more casualties to the Japanese populous and damage to Japanese infrastructure than the atomic bombs (Hanson 60). The decision and execution of these attacks by General Lemay contributed to the overall success of the pacific campaign. The

film clips, and photographs. One photograph in particular captures the horror of the Vietnam War. It is the image of Phan Phuc, a naked, nine-year- old, South Vietnamese girl, taken on June 8, 1972, by Nick Ut. The photograph shows the horrors of napalm, the emotionless soldiers, and photo-journalists, and children suffering. Jets tear through the air over a green jungle in Vietnam. What is a beautiful, peaceful, thriving jungle, with villages and families will soon be a charred ash pit with nothing

about why the Vietnam War was bad. There are more negative reasons for the Vietnam War to be bad, than there are positive reasons. Some of the negatives are The Gulf of Tonkin, the Vietcong, Operation Rolling Thunder, Underground Tunnels/Traps, Napalm, Agent Orange, The War poem and Billy don’t be a Hero poem give reasons for it to be a bad thing. The Gulf of Tonkin was passed in 1964 and gave President Johnson authorization. It launched America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. It was a negative

During the early stages of the Cold War (1945-1954), the United States became so dedicated to stopping the spread of communism that they completely ignored the potential ecological effects of their strategic decisions, signifying a complete disconnect from contemplative ecology. During this period under the Truman Administration, there was an overwhelming societal belief that national security concerns trump environmental safety. As a matter of fact, there was zero concern from the federal government