North Vietnam example essay topic

Vietnam By Dane Christiansen I am doing my report on Vietnam. First of all, in my opinion the United states shouldn't have ever been involved in. In north Vietnam it was a battle for south Vietnam, so that they would be a unified communist nation. To prevent the taking over of another communistic country, the U.S. held on to the Truman Doctrine, as you said, and stood behind the south Vietnamese people. Then after Kennedy was killed Johnson took over and pumped a lot of money into the war, along with a lot more troops. Then to make Johnson look ok that he did this, congress passed the gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving the president full military power.

After Johnson dramatically escalated the amount of soldiers in Vietnam, the north Vietnamese mounted a surprise attack during the Vietnamese new year. It made America more aware of what they were up against, that the communists were capable of fierce gorilla warfare. Unlike anything else they had been used to at home. Images of the terror and disarray reached back home, and the U.S. began to wonder how effective their involvement in Veit nam really was. As we got further and further into the Vietnam war, few lives were untouched by tears. Few people had no one that they hadn't known that had died in that terrible war.

The Vietnamese suffered even more hardship, some of the children just lay dead in the street, lots of villages were nothing but ashes. Almost every one of the soldiers were scarred physically, but all were scarred emotionally. The fear of death for their people never left them. One of the reasons was from a thing called the My Lai Massacre. It occurred in 1968, when a village of My Lai was completely destroyed. Although not a single troop lived there.

Over a hundred villagers were just slaughtered. It became much more clear to Americans how we might not win this war after all. The draft then took more and more people in as the years went on, and on. By 1968 (what I found) was the over five hundred thousand soldiers were involved in Vietnam.

The government was getting desperate for troops. We started letting men with poor eyesight or other men with handicaps in. Peace stuff started going on then, which brought riots. Many times the national guard had to get violent with civilians to calm them. This resulted in the not running of Johnson in 1968, and Nixon then became President.

Nixon's main quest was peace, which he call Vietnam ization. This was slowly pulling out the troops out of Vietnam. Then Nixon, although he wanted peace, started bombing the Vietnamese North. Finally his prayers, and everyone's for that matter, were answered.

In 1973 then cease -fire was signed.