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Introduction: The Vietnam War was a war fought between 1964 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos, and in bombing runs over North Vietnam. Fighting on one side was a coalition of forces including the United States, the Republic of Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a communist-led South Vietnamese guerrilla movement. The USSR provided military aid to the North Vietnamese and to the NLF, but was not one of the military combatants. Body:Vietnam is a country approximately 2,845 km north east of Australia. The period between 1950's up until 1975, war in Vietnam seemed so near and yet distant from Australia. Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War began when it responded with thirty military advisers, dispatched as the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam . The commitment of Australia to the Vietnam War, started in 1965 when Australia committed two hundred thousand troops to fight the war in Vietnam with America. Committed meaning that Australia bonded with the promise of fighting side-by-side America. The question of whether Australia's commitment arises from here and with the basis of historical facts and contemporary reasoning, everything seems to appear that
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The Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a terrible war fought between the years of 1945 to 1975. Even though the war started in 1945, America did not enter the war until 1961. During 1945 World War II was nearing an end, the Japanese invaded Vietnam, kicked out the French colonial government, and seized control of Vietnam by controlling Bao Dai, the emperor of Vietnam. The history of Vietnam is filled with information, a few of those things would be: how it started, how the United States (U.S.) got involved, the different things that happened during the war, and how the war ended. On September 2, 1945, a scrawny man in a plain khaki tunic spoke before a crowd of half a million people at Ba Dinh square in Hanoi, Vietnam. That day, shops, offices, and schools had been closed for the occasion. Red flags and banners bearing nationalist slogans hung from city buildings as people crowded the streets chanting for a man walking towards the middle of the town to speak. The man, a Communist leader who had taken the name Ho Chi Minh ("he who enlightens"), declared Vietnam to be independent both of Japan and of France. His speech began with the words, "We hold truths that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."(Leone 15) These phrases borrowed from the Declaration of
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The Vietnam War During War there are always difficulties and causalities just because of enemies or accidents on your own side. People who die in war should have a special place or thing to be remembered by. In The Monument by Gary Paulsen and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien there is war. They deal with the Vietnam War which lasted from 1945 to 1975. The war started when the Japanese seized control of Vietnam on March, 9th, 1945. In the summer of 1945 famine struck Hanoi which caused two million people to die. In July, 1945 Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fall in the control of the French. In August the Japanese surrender ending World War II. Vietnam becomes independent and Ho Chi Minh the president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. On September 13th the British troops arrive in Saigon and then on September 22 the French attack the Viet Minh. 2 days later the Viet Minh massacre 150 French soldiers. 2 days after that there is an American killed on accident. He was Lt. Col A. Peter Dewey. The French arrive to restore their power in October, 1945, which causes the Viet Minh to start guerilla tactics. The first Indochina war started on December 19, 1946 and lasted 8 years. October seventh through December twenty-second the Viet Minh lost 900 solders. The French establish the South Vietnamese National Army in July 1949 it was also called the ARVN, which were
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The Vietnam War "No 'healing', no apologies, no memorials, nothing can possibly compensate for the damage done and the pain inflicted....The only thing we can possibly do, twenty years too late, is to try and tell the truth." Eric Bergerud, Historian UC Berkely The problem is though, that there is no one truth about the Vietnam War, even more than two decades after America's intervention. Critics of the intervention claim that the war was unnecessary and immoral and also policymakers in Washington dragged the country into and unwanted war. A group of scholars and military leaders have contrasting ideas, providing a strong defense for the American intervention. Although there is a multitude of facts and sources, without a framework to place them into context understanding the war would be impossible. Even after a careful examination of all the information we have today, it would reveal neither view as entirely accurate. The Vietnam War was arguably the most traumatic experience for the United States considering a whole range of events including two world wars, assassinations of two presidents, the Great Depression, the Cold War, racial issues, etc... Examining the events of the war including the Tonkin Resolution, Ho Chi Minh trail and Tet Offense while analyzing US involvement in the war can help us understand more about the truth of the war and why it was considered one of
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The Vietnam war The Start and reasons: The Vietnam War broke out right after the Second World War. Vietnam had been a French colony until 1940, but shortly after the war broke out, Japan took over the control of Vietnam, and they ruled until 1945. After the war, which France had been on the winning side of, France wanted Vietnam back as a colony, but Vietnam had grown more independent under Japan. Especially in the Northern part of Vietnam the political ideology communism had become very popular, and many now dreamed of Vietnam as an independent communist republic. Japan pulled out right after the Second World War, but Vietnam, and in particular the Northern part of Vietnam were now no longer interested in being under France, and when neither the communist party nor France gave in. The war broke out. In 1946 Vietnam was declared "a free state under France". But this did not please the communist leader Ho Chi Minh, who was determined to make Vietnam a free communist republic. Later the same year the negotiations collapsed and a war begun. This was not France's intention. Their intention had been to make sure that a man named Boa Dia was made emperor, and after that slowly pull out all French troops. In this they did not succeed, instead they pulled out eight years later after realising that they were loosing the battles. Before this a peace agreement between France and
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The Vietnam War The 1960s manifested a period of transformation and societal revolution for scores of citizens in the United States. The Civil Rights Movement was in full force, humans took the first steps on the moon, anguish concerning the murders of both President Kennedy and Dr. King Jr... Furthermore, the rising of countercultures, which facilitated communal living, hippies, drugs, and rock and roll. The Anti-War movement began and became the focal point of several university and college campuses where they protested the Vietnam War and The Draft. Antiwar demonstrations were going on across the country and the demonstration at Kent State University on May 04, 1970, had students assembled to protest the Vietnam War and the assault on Cambodia. In The Vietnam Era 1963 -1965 (2005), it was found James Rhodes the Ohio state Governor at the time called upon the U.S. National Guard with the purpose of putting an end to the demonstration and demanding the students to disband. The student protesters would not comply and the U. S. National Guard discharged weapons into the crowd of people gathered. This caused the death of four students and injuries to nine other students, some of which were students not even involved with the demonstration. This confrontation at Kent State became the fuel of the antiwar movement of the 1970s. Furthermore, In The Vietnam Era 1963 -1965 (2005),
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Johnson, not Kennedy, bears the responsibility for the escalation of the war in Vietnam. 'How far do you agree with this statement?' President Johnson must take major responsibility for the escalation of the war in Vietnam, however he cannot take full responsibility as Kennedy also played a part in increasing commitment there. Johnson takes the larger amount of responsibility as he took the first major escalatory step by approving of large scale bombing in Vietnam; Operation Rolling Thunder, as a response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. LBJ was also the first President to send ground troops into Vietnam. LBJ may have also got further involved in Vietnam because he didn't want to 'lose Vietnam' like Truman 'lost China' because 'losing China' affected Truman's reputation greatly and therefore LBJ did not want the same to happen to him over Vietnam. On the other hand, JFK must take some responsibility because during his time in office, military advisers in Vietnam were increased from 500 to 16,000. Also the American government had some involvement in getting rid of Diem, therefore increasing commitment to Vietnam and LBJ had the same foreign policy advisers as Kennedy, so they possibly brought Kennedy's ideas back into the White House. The Gulf of Tonkin incident is when a US Navy ship was allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats. Reports of this attack angered LBJ
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Vietnam War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. It began as a determined attempt by Communist guerrillas (the so-called Vietcong) in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. The struggle widened into a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam and ultimately into a limited international conflict. The United States and some 40 other countries supported South Vietnam by supplying troops and munitions, and the USSR and the People's Republic of China furnished munitions to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. On both sides, however, the burden of the war fell mainly on the civilians. The war also engulfed Laos, where the Communist Pathet Lao fought the government from 1965 to 1973 and succeeded in abolishing the monarchy in 1975; and Cambodia, where the government surrendered in 1975 to the Communist Khmer Rouge. This article is concerned primarily with the military aspects of the war; for further discussion of the historical and political issues involved, see Vietnam: History. Vietnamese Independence Struggle (1945-1954). The war developed as a sequel to the struggle (1946-1954) between the French, who were the colonial rulers of Indo-China before World War II, and the Communist-led Vietminh, or League for the Independence of Vietnam, founded and headed by the revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh. Having emerged
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Jack Webdale Holsworthy-CC Centre no: 54131 Cand. no: 7139 GCSE History Coursework The Vietnam War In 1862, Vietnam became part of the French Empire, due to the popularity of exploring and colonising in this era, after nearly a thousand years of being an independent and free country. Before this time, up to 983AD, they had been part of the Chinese Empire, and so culture and way of life would still have been strongly influenced at the time. All this time, the Vietnamese people were used to the independence of their country, and when the French took this away from them, the citizens must have disliked the French. Schools and University's were established and the students were educated about the French, attempting to create loyal citizens to the French Empire. However, as this information was given to them, some students began to question the French right of control over Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh was one of these students. The Students eventually caused a resistance to the French, and at this point, the U.S took notice. China was already Communist, and they were extremely worried already that communism would spread further south taking Vietnam in it's sphere of influence, and moving quickly down to new Zealand and Australia, taking any other country in it's path. This was later known as the Domino theory, basically meaning if one country falls, the next will also fall, as the
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9/03/06 ''The Vietnam War was lost in the United States of America and not in Vietnam", to what extent do you agree with this statement? The Vietnam War was a conflict fought between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) allied with major communist powers namely the Soviet Union and China, against the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and its major ally the United States of America. The United States of America played a major role in the Vietnam War and the outcome of the war was heavily dependant on what the U.S.A did in Vietnam and also what was going on in the U.S.A itself, while its troops were fighting in Vietnam. To answer this question I will provide examples from my knowledge of why the U.S.A lost in Vietnam itself, and why it failed in the U.S.A as well, following this I will draw up a conclusion and decide to what extent I agree with the statement in question. Let me begin by presenting examples of why the U.S lost while fighting in Vietnam. One of the main points as to why the Vietnam War was a failure for the U.S was due to the Vietcong's use of Guerilla warfare. First of all the U.S army was mostly full of draftees which only received about six weeks of combat training, this meant that they were in no way trained to fight against an army using Guerilla tactics. The terrain was also very suited for the use of Guerilla tactics. The dense jungle
