Essays on North Vietnamese

The United States foreign policy during the Cold War was as much dependent on diplomatic efforts as much as it was related to both direct and indirect military conflict. The Cold War was a time when American practitioners of international relations thought deeply about what was the best and most effective way to deal with the existential threat of communist expansion.  Most notably the United States relied on an overall approach to foreign policy which relied on containment of communist expansion by supporting regimes which were friendly to the American cause of fighting the Soviet Union.  During the Vietnam ...

During the independence war to rid Vietnam of French colonial rule in 1940s, communist fighter groups began digging tunnels, by hands, of short distances in the rugged terrain of southern Vietnam (Mangold & Penycate, 2012). As the US increased its support for a non-communists political regime in southern Vietnam, it increased its military presence in the country in the early 1960s. Viet Cong guerrilla troops, which supported Communism in southern Vietnam, and North Vietnamese troops expanded the tunnels leading to a network of tunnels in the country. At the peak of the war, the network of underground tunnels linked the ...

This was a proxy war in the Cold War-era, which took place in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos between 1956 and 1975. It came after the First Indochina War and was a battle between North Vietnam that was backed by the China, Soviet Union, as well as other communist allies and the South Vietnam government that had the U.S. backup together with other anti-communist nations.

The Viet Cong, common front from South Vietnamese communist that was directed by the North, battled a guerrilla war against forces of anti-communism in the area. The North Vietnamese Army was involved in a more conventional battle, sometimes ...

- 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 ...

Impact of Vietnam War on American Culture

- Although decades have passed since the occurance of the Vietnam war, the American culture, which was partly born as a result of this war, is celebrated today. - Body - The War changed the views of the American people on their constitutional rights, the media and the government. - The war created many stereotypes that referred the veterans as drug addicts, bitter, struggling to readjust in society and psychologically devastated. - The chemical weaponry that were used on the Vietnam vegetation had an adverse effect on the people in a way that even after three generations, ...

Nixon was elected the president of United States of America 1968 on the promise that he would take a different approach to end the Vietnam War. Consequently, halting American engagement in Vietnam was his greatest challenge. Having known that Vietnam Wars was his greatest burden, Nixon explored diplomatic options that attracted positive public opinions. He orchestrated a peace talk that led to the withdrawal of US soldiers from Vietnam. This reduced the number of American casualties in the war. The war ended in 1974 when the South Vietnamese forces were defeated by the North Vietnamese troops (Young & Buzzanco, 2002).

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Introduction

One of the longest wars that America has involved itself in was the Vietnam War. This war, which took place between 1959 and 1979, was a prolonged struggle between the United States and North Vietnamese nationalist forces who were trying to unite the country under a single communist government. Unlike many wars where America has emerged victorious, the nation was however defeated in this war and communism took over in Vietnam. Many Americans opposed the war and today, this war is often used as benchmark of what America ought not to do when it comes to foreign conflicts. In my efforts ...

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 ...

The United States in Vietnam

In the year 1961, South Vietnam signed a treaty with the United States in regards to military and economic aid. Post the treaty, the U.S support troops arrived in Vietnam and formed the U.S. Military Assistance Command. After the execution of Diem for his corrupted and ineffective government, on 7th August 1964 the U.S Senate passed the Tonkin Gulf resolution through the then President Lyndon B. Johnson to increase the U.S military aid in South Vietnam. In 1965, the military troops of the United States started air-raids on North Vietnam and the Communist controlled regions of the South. By the ...

In the mid of the 1960s were many events that had impact on the history of United States. There were events that impact both domestic and foreign policy. One of these events was attack on the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964. You can ask me why exactly this event? Let’s analyze it. The Vietnam War was one of the largest and the bloodiest conflict of the second half of XX century. For the United States it is the bloodiest war after Second World War, the casualties of US Armed Forces estimated in 58, ...

Vietnamization was a policy that established by President Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War. It was tailored to bring to an end the US involvement in the Vietnam War and therefore expand, train, as well as equip the Vietnam military forces so as to assign them with increasing combat responsibilities. The same gradually reduced the number of the United States combat troops. This investigation is aimed at examining the efficiency of the Nixon’s Vietnamization policy since the year 1969 towards the end of the year 1975. In a bid to evaluate this policy, this investigation will reconnoiter the core events ...

The Vietnam War (1959-1975) was one of the murkiest episodes and solemn conflict in the whole of modern history. It was one of the longest and most unpopular wars that America took part in without proper justification. The war influenced the lives of the next generation of Americans after the scission of the nation. After French’s withdrawal from Vietnam in 1956, democratic elections were to be held in an effort to unite Vietnam under one government. The U.S turned down the idea of doing the election since it feared that the communist would win. U.S’s involvement in ...

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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Introduction

Henry Kissinger was perhaps one of the most active and important Secretaries of State. His forceful intervention in several questions such as the Vietnam War as well as his propping up of General Gustavo Augusto Pinochet makes him a reviled figure amongst those who have democracy at heart (Bass, p 275). This paper seeks to argue that Kissinger should indeed be hauled in front of an International War Crimes Tribunal largely due to his intervention, covert or non-covert in several mass genocides. Two of these are those in Bangladesh in 1971 where the Pakistani Army was given US backing to ...

Introduction

1979’s Apocalypse Now is one of the most significant films which emerged from the Vietnam War period. The movie is based on Heart of Darkness, a book by Joseph Conrad (Syn 1). The story revolves around the character of Benjamin Willard, who is tasked with the duty of killing Colonel Walter Kurtz, who has gone rogue in the Cambodian jungles. The accuracy of the movie in depicting the actual happenings of the Vietnam War has been a subject of extensive debate. Francis Ford Coppola, the producer and director of the film asserts that Apocalypse Now is not just about Vietnam ...

Introduction

Southeast Asian Americans are the former citizens of Southeast Asian countries and their descendants who now live in U.S. More specifically, though, “Southeast Asian Americans” often designates the immigrants and refugees from nations of the mainland Southeast Asia, specifically Laos, Vietnam, Hmong, and Cambodia. The Southeast Asian Americans are actually an ethnically diverse group that is comprised of Laotians, Cambodian, Hmong, Vietnamese, Thai, among other ethnic tribes. Unlike the other Asian immigrants, majority of these immigrants entered U.S as refugees. The 3 acts that have essentially facilitated immigration and resettlement of these refugees include Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dang Thuy Tram was born in Vietnam on 26th November 1942. At the young age of 25 she was already working as surgeon in the battlefield during the Vietnam War. She was however a civilian doctor but many are the times that she operated of wounded soldiers. It is during this time as a surgeon in the battle field that she secretly wrote down the encounters and the events of the Vietnam War in her diaries of which two were burned by United States soldiers. Her war time encounters as well as the story of her diaries are now well documented ...

Summarize the events that led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Also, outline the controversy associated with these events.

Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution is a resolution that was put before the US Congress by President Lyndon Johnson on August 5, 1964 as a reaction to two related unprovoked attacks on US Seventh Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin, the Maddox and C. Turner Joy by North Vietnamese torpedo on August 2, and August 4 respectively (Young, 1991). The purpose of the resolution was to support and approve the determination of the president as a commander in chief to consider any suitable measure to deter any armed attack against United State’s forces and to avert any further aggression. The resolution also ...

“Ultimately it was Australia’s dependence on the United States that led it into Vietnam” (Gregory Pemberton). Is this a correct analysis of Australian military involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s?

The Vietnam War or the Second Indochina War—a conflict between the North and South Vietnam to gain the ruling power over Vietnam—took place from 1962 to 1975 (The Cold Warrior). While the United States and other democratic countries supported South Vietnam, communist nations, People’s Republic of China and Soviet Union supported North Vietnam (The Cold Warrior). Several international events were responsible for the revolution that resulted in ...

Abstract

The Vietnam lasted for 30 years and had dire consequences for both, America as well as Vietnam. However, these consequences where not short lived. Some had long lasting effects on the society, economy, politics and foreign policy. The war led thousands of Americans to question their own countries approach towards conflicts on foreign shores as well the level of risk it takes when partaking in such wars. It also raised several questions on how these wars were conducted and the morality of troops sent to fight wars on foreign soil. The war changed the way people thought of their ...