South Vietnam

Vietnam War The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular american war of the twentieth century (Mintz S. & S. McNeil). Resulting in roughly 58,000 american deaths and 2 million vietnamese deaths, the twenty year war was a long and bloody battle that not only impacted the soldiers, but many civilians as well (“Vietnam War”). “It’s estimated that 70,000 to 300,000 Vietnam Veterans committed suicide and around 700,000 veterans suffered psychological trauma” (Rexy). Starting in (debateably) 1955

New president Lyndon B. Johnson acquired a troublesome circumstance in Vietnam, as the South Vietnamese government was in shambles and the Viet Cong was making substantial additions in provincial ranges of the South. Despite the fact that Johnson charged himself as an intense hostile to Communist, he vowed to respect Kennedy 's constrained troop duties in Vietnam. In reality, Johnson took care of the Vietnam circumstance respectably amid the early piece of his term, endeavoring to proceed with Kennedy

Historical Analysis two 4/20/2015 The Vietnam War a long and hard fought battle that lasted from November, 1954 and ended on April 30, 1975, but the United States didn’t get involved until June of 1965. (Vietnam War Statistics) The likely collapse of the South Vietnamese army and the fear for the spread of communism is why America joined in on this war, but joining the war was extremely controversial. Many people believe that the United States involvement In the Vietnam War should never have happened.

The Vietnam War greatly changed America forever. It was the longest war fought in America’s history, lasting from 1955 to 1973. The Vietnam War tarnished America’s self image by becoming the first time in history the United States failed to accomplish its stated war aims, to preserve a separate, independent, noncommunist government. The war also had great effects on the American people. It was the first war ever broadcast on television. The public was able to see what happened on the battlefield

Indochina, along with Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, under their control. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) After the French gave in to communism, the US did not let that go. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s team instead decided to build a nation, known as South Vietnam, and fabricated their government. They then sent US troops to train South Vietnamese soldiers in order to fight against the North since the US didn't want to risk the North’s troops to beat the South and pull them over into communism.

Political games of Vietnam The Vietnam War was a pivotal changing point in the American foreign policy. Through the span of three presidents and the Cold War, Vietnam changed the outlook of America in the world wide arena. After the end of the Indochina war and oppression of Vietnam by the French, the country was split into the north and the south along the 17th parallel. Following the declaration of the Geneva Accord there was to be a demilitarized zone along the north and the south of the 17th parallel

approval when Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The Johnson Administration believed that increasing the U.S military presence in Vietnam was the only answer, the South Vietnamese troops stayed generally ineffective. In supporting South Vietnamese raids and applying a U.S program for the Lao border to disturb supply lines, U.S military started supporting South Vietnamese raids of the North Vietnamese coast. In the Gulf of Tonkin two destroyers by the name of the Maddox and the Turner Joy, were

neighboring countries, like a falling domino that causes an entire row to fall down. Although the Vietnam War is seen by many as the only option to try to end the spread of communism, the specious outcome of the war was not effective enough to justify the amount of unethical decisions and situations that were allowed to take place. In 1961, under President Kennedy, 100 Special Forces troops were sent to South Vietnam and by 1963, just two years later, U.S military advisors and Special Forces had increased

one-step further to create almost an ideal insurgency in South Vietnam. An insurgency was developed and controlled from the Communist North Vietnamese government in Hanoi leading to both an unconventional and conventional conflict with the goal of unifying all of Vietnam. The North Vietnamese communist leadership exploited an immature and illegitimate South Vietnamese government successfully fueling the insurgency from Hanoi. Prior to the Vietnam conflict, North Vietnamese leadership studied Chinese

will of the local populace happen as seriously or shockingly as in Vietnam. Despite the fact that a little, immature nation which has been subjected to violence and resistance through the years, not to