Vietnam War Research Papers Samples For Students

- Introduction

- The Vietnam War is known by many names. The most prominent of these is “The American War. It is the longest war that was ever fought by the Unites States of America on foreign soil. It spanned from November 1955 to April 1975; just over 17 years. The Vietnam War was overseen by four American Presidents; Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. The roots of the Vietnam War date all the way back to pre-World War II era. This paper answers crucial questions on the origin, execution, result and aftermath of the ...

All over my life, my interest in conducting a research about the Vietnam War has been intensive. Vietnam War was a long struggle between the nationalist forces who were attempting to unite Vietnam under the government of communism while the U.S was trying to inhibit the spread of communism in the country. The U.S lost the support of the public in the war and ever since the war ended, it has become a benchmark for the act that should never be repeated in all the future United States foreign conflicts. I commenced my research on this interesting topic at the start of ...

Introduction

The Vietnam War took place between 1961 and 1975. The technology of helicopters goes back to the 20th century. The US army had acquired experience on the effectiveness using helicopters during the World War II. Mobility set the pace of the war. Time, policy, politics, and circumstances converged with technology and adequate funding to create the Vietnam War. The US army entered Vietnam in May 1965 to find they were fighting a different kind of war than that for which they had been trained. However, they did not enter blindly. There were a large number of army officers already serving in ...

The United States has a proud tradition of military accomplishment and support. Federal holidays like Memorial Day and Veterans Day celebrate the men and women who have fought and died in battle for American freedom. Historians have coined terms like the “Great War,” and the “Good War,” to describe the proud feelings of America’s participation in modern wars. After World War II, the country experienced an unprecedented economic growth and increased political power throughout the world, leading some to label the decades after World War II “the American half-century.” However, the memories of one American war stand in stark ...

Introduction

The Vietnamese War, fought from December 1956 up to April 1975, is one of the Cold War-era proxy wars fought in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Although, on paper, the war was fought between North and South Vietnam, allies of the two antagonists were also involved in the war. For example, North Vietnam was supported by its communist allies (such as China), while South Vietnam was supported by anti-communist allies (such as the United States and France). Up to date, there is no consensus about whether the war itself was necessary, and whether objectives of the war were achieved.

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the United States history were a radical student movement during the 1960s. This was a student activist organization in the U.S. that was one of the foremost representations of the New Left. In the prominent Port Huron (Michigan) Statement of 1962, the movement, established in 1960 , offered its vision for-Vietnam War America and invited students to join the organization to establish ‘participatory democracy’. On June 1962, less than 100 individuals show up during the initial SDS meeting at Port Huron, Michigan. During this convention, the group espoused an endorsed political philosophy, the Port Huron Statement, ...

Communism has catalyzed numerous wars in the history of the world with the Vietnam War being an explicit example. At the end of 1955, a cold war era was brewing due to the differences between the North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was communist and South Vietnam, anti-communist. The People’s Republic of China supported the northerners and the Southern Vietnam got their main support from The United States (Pious 85). The United States involvement was an attempt on their part to prevent the invasion of communism to South Vietnam. This is because they had a wider strategy of a non-communist country. ...

THE VIETNAM WAR AND U.S. INVOLVEMENT

Introduction

The common name "Vietnam War" or "War in Vietnam" - is the second Indochina war in Vietnam with the U.S.. It began around 1961 and ended April 30, 1975. In the Vietnam War, it is called the War for Liberation, and sometimes the American war. The Vietnam War is often regarded as the peak of the "cold war" between the Soviet bloc and the People’s Republic of China, on the one hand, and the United States with some of its allies - on the other. In America, the Vietnam War is considered ...

The Vietnam War was occurred between the year 1960 and 1975. It started as a determined effort by Communist insurgents, the so called Vietcong, in the South, supported by Communist North Vietnam, to remove the South Vietnam government from power. The struggle broadened into a war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and eventually into a restricted international battle. The United States, as well as some 40 other nations, backed South Vietnam through providing munitions and troops while the People's Republic of China and the USSR supplied armses to the Vietcong and North Vietnam. In spite of the massive American help, the ...

The significant role that has been played by women in the Vietnamese society cannot be overlooked. Unlike the women in other countries in the region, traditionally “a special position and prestige in family and society” has been held by the women in Vietnam ("Vietnamese Women in the Eighties" ). There is an old but memorable Vietnamese saying: “When war comes, even women have to fight” (Tai). In Vietnam, for as long as the people have been fighting against international forces, women were an essential part of that struggle. It is said that hundreds of thousands of women played a huge role in ...

Arguably, war and philosophy tend to always appear a little common. As a matter of fact, scholars assert that philosophy is a field that defines and establishes the rationality and justice for being part of a war and that it attempts to set norms and rules on how wars in most cases must be conducted. One of the philosophical theories that try to justify the essence of going to war is the Just War Theory. Certainly, the scheme of a Just War is to define and establish ethical and moral foundation for human destructive events and activities. In addition, just war principles tend to ...

Forty years before the their immersion in Afghanistan, America had faced a similar problem in the Vietnam jungles. They urgently needed to find a way of counteracting the enemy’s capacity to hide from weapons while living off the land. They decided to use Agent Orange, a herbicide designed to kill the forests that were sheltering the enemy. However, this decision was arguably one of the worst that were made throughout the course of the war. The herbicide proved to be a cause of cancer (cancer). Moreover, even today, children are being born with defects and illnesses as effect of the use of ...

After the Second World War, the American government entered into the global power bracket. It became an integral political and economic powerhouse in the world. As a result, most of the developing nations turned to it for support. As Vietnam struggled to free itself from the South Vietnamese communist Common Front, the American troops were sent to help the incumbent government gain control of the country.
The entry of the United States into Vietnam became one of the most controversial wars in the history of the United States. In America, military conscription had been in use for years during ...

National security state is a term used to make reference to a condition where a state’s aspects of political, economic, intellectual and social life are based on the considerations of national defense and the need to have in place national defense mechanisms and establishing a capacity, through all measures possible, of protecting the state against all its enemies both internal and external. This control of almost all aspects of life in a nation came into being during and after the second world war when a state of mutual suspicion among the war victors, with Russia on one side and the United states on the ...

At the end of January each year many in Vietnam, the USA and other parts of the world, think of 1968 when the Tet Offensive was launched by the North Vietnamese against South Vietnam. Although the North had agreed to a truce they did not honor it. Instead they initiated a surprise attack comprised of approximately 70,000 Communist fighters into Saigon and about ninety nine other South Vietnamese cities. The attacks took place in cities on the coast and inland causing a shift from rural fighting to urban fighting. The consequences were staggering and the cruelty to innocent people caught in ...

The interference of the United States into Vietnam in order to free it from Communism has caused many debates all over the world. Back then, the United States was a fast-developing world power that had access to a lot of technologically developed equipment and thus, considered helping Vietnam to be her duty. However, not many people agreed. Some people said that from a religious point of view, it was wrong to sacrifice American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians in order to help the country get rid of the Red Terror. Many claimed that the American interference was nothing but the ...

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American troops serving in Vietnam turned to drugs and alcohol to deal with the atrocities of war. Initially, the drug of choice in the war was marijuana. However, when the problem was discovered, the military took actions to eliminate marijuana use. This provided an avenue for heroin to become the drug of choice. The production of heroin in Vietnam, the easy accessibility to the drug and the relatively low cost of the drug attracted American troops. It did not take long for heroin addiction to become significant among the troops. Heroin use began to deteriorate the health, welfare, discipline ...

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The Importance of Freedom

Freedom is taken for granted by many people because of the fact that they have never known anything else. Because of this fact; the importance of freedom is not even thought about. Freedom is very important to people for varied reasons.
Having the ability to speak freely and to also pursue happiness is just two of the benefits that come with being free. Another benefit is that freedom leads to enhanced expressions of creativity allowing an individual the ability to think creatively, to be productive, and to enjoy a very good quality of ...

Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam war anthology The Things They Carried follows a platoon of American soldiers both in and out of the field, showing the toll that the war itself took on these men and women. The nature of humanity, the senselessness of war, and the importance of relationships to human beings are highlighted in the metatextual and historical makeup of this short story collection. O’Brien makes heavy use of symbolism and metafiction to create a highly stylized world of the Vietnam experience, each of the stories providing their own perspectives and symbols to show the effect of Vietnam ...

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The 1960’s and 1970’s were a time in the United States of America that will forever remain in the minds of many people. Long held values were broken and drugs, sex rock took over the minds of the youths. Melvin and William (1992) attribute the cause of the drastic rebellions to the governance system, Vietnam War, law enforcement and authority.
The counter-culture of the 1960’s and 1970’s broke the norms of long held values especially among the youth. It was first witnessed in the United States of America and United Kingdom. It ...

The decision that was made for engagement in a war between Korea and Vietnam can be attributed to Domino Theory. This was found in the doctrine of Truman Doctrine, which was found in MacNamara’s theory, often referred to as Domino Theory. It has been argued that, Americans were the losers, in Vietnamese war. Given the way the direction the war took, this statement could be true. On the other hand, one wonders if a large country like the US could lose such a fight. These are two opposing arguments that have been maintained by historians. In all these, the Americans did ...

The green berets are also referred to as the Special Forces. The U.S Army special force was created in 1952, and it was kept in a somewhat low profile. The Army Special Forces were formed by recruiting former OSS officers and the veterans from the elite Rangers and Airborne army units. The first leader of the Special Forces was captain Aaron bank who was recruited from the OSS.

The beret history

The modern beret was first used in the U.S military was in 1943, when a battalion of the 509th Parachute Infantry was given maroon berets by their British counterparts for their service in ...

The decision that was made for engagement in a war between Korea and Vietnam can be attributed to Domino Theory. This was found in the doctrine of Truman Doctrine, doctrine which was found in MacNamara’s theory, often referred to as Domino Theory. The reasoning that America has been that if both countries, Korea and Vietman, became communists, it would be risky for neighboring nations. The Americans did not concede to accept a rule of conciliation which had made way for Hitler to reinforce Germany to engage in World War II. In both Korea and Vietnam, America struggled to ensure that ...

One of the very instrumental aspects of American domination on the global scale has been its foreign policy and the subsequent consequences the policies they have had. In an effort to comprehensively evaluate America’s foreign policy and understand its effectiveness, the focus of this investigation is in analyzing and assessing the degree of effectiveness that the American foreign policy had in Vietnam.
It focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of President Nixon’s Vietnamization policy. The investigation will delve into the analysis of the goals of Vietnamization and the subsequent effects that did accrue from the implementation of the ...

How was the My Lai Massacre reported by the U.S. media?
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How did the United States media represent the My Lai Massacre? What did the incident look like in the American newspapers? I have chosen this topic because the importance of the media during the Vietnam War (particularly the My Lai) cannot be underrated. The U.S. media influence Americans’ perception of the event, as the primary information was reversed and many details were never revealed. Throughout the world history, many countries did the same thing in order to avoid panic and unneeded criticism. In this particular case, ...

American soldier uniform difference between the year 1980 and after the year 2000

Introduction
The Vietnam War Era Uniform
Vietnam War Era uniform which was also known as the Jungle Uniform was the main attire that the American soldiers used in their military operations between 1950 and 1980. The designers of this attire got their inspiration from the color code of the U.S. which is olive green. The uniform was a unique type of military attire that merged functional reality, ease and striking design. The trousers and courts were made using twill cotton poplin fabric that was closely intertwined in a manner that they easily dried up. Moreover, it gave the soldiers ...

America’s War in Vietnam

One way to quantify the moral tenor of America’s foreign wars is to examine the comparative number of those who sought and were granted exemptions as conscientious objectors (CO). During World War II, which is often identified as a “crusade against evil,” approximately 37,000 draft-eligible men were granted CO status. In the course of one year of war in Vietnam, nearly twice that number – 61,000 – were identified as conscientious objectors (Szmedra, p. 144). In all, roughly 170,000 men earned CO status during the course of America’s military involvement in Southeast Asia (Ibid).

The unprecedented numbers ...

The Cold War: Who Shot First?

After the devastation caused by WWII, two of the world's superpowers that emerged after this world war entered into what is commonly referred to as the Cold War. Based on this week’s lesson, I think the it was the Soviet Union that initially started the war. There are people who claimed that the conflict between the US and the USSR was ignited mainly because of the rivalry. However, a closer examination of the events that occurred after the Second World War indicated that USSR caused the initiation of the Cold War.
The then US President Franklin Roosevelt has ...

The oral history is about the Chicano people who lived in the United States for a long time. The research seeks to find out the various diverse experiences of Chicanos in the United States. Some of the topics addressed include Immigration to U.S.A, Work life and Labor Union activities, The Depression period, World War II experiences, Participation in Mexican, American community organizations or community work, Veterans, Civil Rights movement, The Vietnam War or the war at home, Family History, Social Change, Gender roles and sexuality. It is based on the genera experiences that the Chicano has gone through while in ...

The US is considered today as a world power, dominant in almost all sectors of being a country which calls for great respect. However, the US had actually been similar with other growing nations as it was also conquered by another nation and it had to fight for its independence. It was also not as active as it is seen today as the US had adopted an isolationist or passive stance over issues overseas in the past that had only changed in the 1890s. History showcases that the US had changed this belief in the 1890s as the Spanish-American Conflict of ...

The United States was the dominant military and economic power in the world from 1945-73, since World War II had left both its allies and opponents defeated and bankrupt. In this period, the American middle class was also growing at an unprecedented rate, and by the 1960s women, youth, blacks and other minorities were also demanding reforms and social changes, and sometimes even revolution. At the same time, though the Vietnam War was also a symptom of American decline, and in addition to derailing Lyndon Johnson’s Great society it also opened the door to the revival of conservatism and ...

“The Things They Carried” seems like a simple story concerning the items carried by soldiers while in Vietnam. But in the real sense, Tim O’Brien uses the stories to focus on the terrible conditions of Vietnam as well as the death of one soldier. He believed that the things men carried inside, and those they did or the ones they felt they had to do was so sad (O’Brien 57). It can be described as a powerful meditation by the Vietnam soldiers that is somehow fictional and fact. Besides, the author created a protagonist as a fictional ...

Introduction

Social Workers are responsible for performing a large spectrum of jobs that range from giving support to people facing difficult situations, significant change or emotional stresses in their daily lives to diagnosing behavioral, mental or emotional health disorders in struggling individuals clinically. As a social worker, you need to help people cope with their situation, advocate for people in need and seek means of support and seek valuable resources for the people affected. The two articles that will form the research for this paper will be Victor Okeke’s – ‘Government And The Challenge Of Drug Abuse In The Country’ and Brian ...

Introduction

The First World War or the Great War was a remarkable event in the history of the humanity. It influenced and shaped our modern world to an extent like none else, and the reflections of today’s development traces its route back to the decisions taken during and post-World War I. No one had any idea about the huge armies that would be involved, the amount of ammunition that will be expended, and how many people would die. However, the role of Canada in the war is noteworthy, considering the fact that the nation decided to stand by the Britain’ ...

Around the world, the United States Army is one of the strongest war forces. They face many instances of war because many countries see the United States as the “world power” in the economical and political arena. As such, the country needed to create an army that would stand up to any other country in time of war. The United States faced threats from all over the world because of their role as a member of the United Nations group of allies. From as early as 1917, the United States improved on their weaponry and formed one of the most ...

UAV or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is an aircraft that can fly without an onboard human pilot. It is being controlled remotely by a computer or a pilot on the ground. There are numerous UAV shapes and sizes even characteristics and configurations. This type of aircraft started as a simple remote-controlled aircraft, but as time goes by, automatic control has been developed along with its increasing tasks including military operations and special applications.

The Evolution of UAV

The technology and idea of having an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle started and evolved from World War I’s Kettering Bug and then the World War II’s cruise missiles. Bill ...

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“On the principle of infallibility there rests the iron discipline of the Communist Party. In fact, the two concepts are mutually self-supporting. Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility.”
- George Kennan, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”
George Kennan wrote these prophetic words in 1946 as part of the famous “Long Telegram,” a document that was made public in 1947 by Foreign Affairs magazine. Kennan’s treatise on the Soviet Union, the nature of Communism and the expected physical manifestations of that nature became the most impactful work on what would become the Cold War and the courses of ...

Why were Hippies portrayed as enemies when their views were based on love, peace, and America’s most fundamental principle: Freedom?
Hippie movement was born in the USA. From 1964 to 1972, America was at war in Vietnam. This was the first war in American history, hated by Americans. This is the heyday of the pacifist sentiments in the world and the birth of the hippie movement. Hippies grew not because of fashion, but because of the strong personal belief in the injustice of the rules of the society: materialism, boredom, wealth and satiety, lack of spirituality. All this ...

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The Civil War was different from any other war as it confirms evidence that it may have been the first ‘total’ and ‘modern’ war, namely in its technology and its tactics. This research paper will show that the Civil War was different from other wars prior to it; although, continuities undoubtedly existed and differences were not total; the rationale behind it’s undoubtedly position within the annotations on other wars.
One of the approaches the Civil War may be argued as different from any other war prior to it may be through the claim that, it was first ‘ ...

The history of Colin Powell has captured the attention of many people from all corners of the world. His biography shows that his year of birth was 1937. Going through his life history, it is clear that he has spent many years in the military. During these years, he was able to acquire several positions in the military (Martin 2009). Due to experience and expertise, he was awarded several promotions that translated into higher ranks as the years went by. Colin served in many high ranking positions in the government.
One of the reasons why Colin was given ...

Since the era of the Word Wars, America has been involved in many combat situations: the World war I and II, Vietnam war, Korean War, and the recent war in Middle East after the 9/11 incident. In all these wars, there are men and women who received injuries while at service to their country. The essay below explains this in greater detail.

Injured Veterans

According to Disabled American Veterans (2012), the men and women in the military never wavered in their urge to serve their country to their level best. They put their lives on the line so that their nation ...

On hearing the name of John Lennon, the image that surfaces in one’s mind is The Beatles, the hippie movement of the 1960s protesting the Vietnam War and the tragic event of his murder in 1980. Throughout his life, Lennon created music that spoke, and still continues to do so, to millions of music lovers around the globe, who upheld his belief of world peace and the abolition of wars, with songs such as “All You Need is Love” and “Give Peace a Chance.” His death was not only a great loss to his friends and family, but to the ...

Evolution of Warfare

Since existence, human beings have always waged war. It is claimed that the first action the Homo sapiens engaged in on the global stage was genocide with the complete obliteration of the Neanderthals even though there is no implication of a prearranged war endeavor. The Neanderthals where physically stronger than the Homo sapiens. However, the Homo sapiens could commune and unite to push the Neathadals to areas that were not very favorable for continued existence hence dominating better settlements.

Though many people would think of war as a morally and ethically unacceptably action, it is still a very important form of human ...

In the United States of America, the links between journalism and public reaction easily trace back to 1788 when the Independent Journal and The New York Packet published the original essays for the Federalist Papers serially, giving free rein to public commentary on the issues that were later to become The Bill of Rights. . The technology of the day that made that possible was the moving type printing press and improved delivery systems that brought the papers out to the public on a regular basis. Radio brought the news every day into peoples’ homes. However, public reaction to news changed ...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Criminal Behavior

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is described as “the development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor” (Baker & Alfonso, 2006, p. 1) where a traumatic stressor must involve threatened or actual serious injury or death “or other threat to one’s physical integrity” (Baker & Alfonso, 2006, p. 1). The event can be directly experienced or witnessed, although it can also be about a person learning of a traumatic event that violently or unexpectedly occurred to a close associate or a family member. Examples of such events include growing up in an environment in the inner-city, experiencing a natural disaster, military combat, ...

The evolution of war films is heavily influenced by the advances made in real life. With new technology comes new wars, and in turn this brings new war films. Human beings are predisposed to quarrel and so war films directly connect us to a feeling of patriotism and our innate interest in a fight (and the drama it includes). War films are an intrinsically masculine genre which, for many, allows them to remember wars and the pride they felt in fighting for their country. In the course of this essay, I will discuss various war films, beginning with D. W. Griffiths’ ...