South Vietnam

The Cold War can be seen as the root of America’s involvement in Vietnam. The US followed a strict policy of containment as implemented by President Truman. This policy stated that the United States would supply financial aid to any country that was under the threat of becoming communist. At first, the US was only indirectly involved in Vietnam. The Vietnamese were tiring of being under colonialist rule and therefore came into conflict with France, who had colonised their country in the late…

permission for U.S to send troops to Southeast Asia as a consequence of North Vietnam supposedly attacking American warships? This resolution gave the U.S authority to defend U.S. from supposed possible enemies. But North Vietnam had always denied any attacks there have always been doubts about the existence of these attacks. This incident is significant in history because it created the first involvement of U.S. troops in Vietnam. 2. Détente .- It was the French word given to the Nixon era of…

C. Document A (236) Eddie Adams’ photograph, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon is primary source depicting, what the public assumes, a savage South Vietnamese general breaking the laws of the Geneva Convention during the Tet Offensive. The antiwar movement rallied behind this photo because they characterized the brutality of the apparent war crime as a synecdoche of the entire war; however, the photo is heavily taken out of context (Elon). The man being executed…

especially the Vietnam War, people fought, people cried, and people rioted, peacefully and not. All of this is documented today in the music that came out of that era. The biggest inspiration for protest music in the sixties, even greater than the Civil Rights Movement, was the Vietnam War. Starting around 1957 and lasting till 1975, standing as America’s longest war, Vietnam was first established when US President John F. Kennedy showed support of South Vietnam, whose neighbor, North Vietnam,…

In 1975, big events have unfolded, from Microsoft, surrendering of Saigon, to the Watergate scandal. Each event had really big significance during that time. Which still has a strong impact in our society. The most important event during this 1975 is the creation of Microsoft. Which has a huge impact it had on the world.. The Watergate scandal was a robbery, but not an ordinary. The robbery took place in Washington D.C. in a building called Watergate. Watergate was the headquarters for the…

The Vietnam war, Civil Rights Movement, student protests and the counter culture had a big impact on America throughout the 1960s. The Vietnam war was first accepted by the American people, but gradually people, especially young people, began rejecting the war. The Civil Rights Movement was an ongoing battle for years, but 1960 brought bigger changes for blacks and was also instrumental in getting rights passed for women. College campuses across the country saw some of the biggest riots in…

The Vietnam War might just be the most difficult war the U.S. has ever fought, mostly due to the so called “fog of war.” Our soldiers were sent to an unfamiliar country full of unfamiliar people with an unfamiliar culture. Flying across the Pacific Ocean to get to Vietnam could almost be seen as landing on a completely different country. The people, the scenery, the fighting were all incredibly foreign to the Americans fighting for their country. According to Robert McNamara, from the Americans’…

Throughout the course of american history, U.S. involvement in foreign affairs has been heavily debated by Americans across the country. But by mid 1900’s, the arise of the Vietnam war and the decision by the US government to aid South Vietnam and stop communist North Vietnam created a controversy in our country like we have never seen before. One difference between this conflict and any other was the crucial role the the media played in turning the public’s opinion against the war. This was…

With the little we do know concerning the causes of the Vietnam War, it is for sure that it all began due to the works and effects of the Cold War. Before World War Two began, Vietnam was part of the French Realm. During the war, the country had been overrun by the Japanese. After the war had ended, the Allies gave South Vietnam (Viet Cong) back to the French while the North (Viet Minh) continued to be left under non-communist rule. In 1946, the French declared their plan to reclaim the North…

on the war in Vietnam and started not necessarily generating news, but generating opinions. Because we decimated the Viet Cong during Tet. We decimated the North Vietnamese Army during Tet. Had we pressed the advantage the turnout would have been different. But when you are fighting a war based on politics, stuff happens.(Pritzker Military 2016)” SGT Allen Lynch was showing a discontent with the way the Vietnam War was perceived by the people back home. The United States and the South Vietnamese…