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Effects Of The Vietnam War On Vietnam
1,102 wordsAugust 1954: US National Security Council decided Vietnam Settlement represented "a major forward stride of communism which might lead to the loss of SE Asia" (seeing the conflict in Cold War terms) President Eisenhower agreed to aid the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. Facts about Diem Regime: Refused to hold reunification talks or hold elections promised under the terms of the Geneva agreement. Autocratic regime. Widespread corruption and nepotism. Unfair distribution of wealth He had repressive polic...
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Military Involvement In Vietnam
3,154 wordsMore About The 1968 Tet Offensive For several thousand years, Vietnamese Lunar New Year has been a traditional celebration that brings the Vietnamese a sense of happiness, hope and peace. However, in recent years, It also bring back a bitter memory full of tears. It reminds them the 1968 bloodshed, a bloodiest military campaign of the Vietnam War the North Communists launched against the South. The "general offensive and general uprising" of the north marked the sharp turn of the Vietnam War. To...
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Our Involvement In Vietnam
1,378 wordsSince during the Vietnam War there has been debate on whether the United States was right to become involved in the conflict. Some say that we were wrong to become involved in what was an internal conflict among the people of Vietnam. Others feel that we followed the natural course and that involvement was not only wrong, but also justified. Which view is right Should we have been in Vietnam or not World War II was the defining event for the United States global role. After the war we took a ver...
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Containment And The Communist Forces
853 wordsAfter World War II, Stalin did not remove his troops from Eastern Europe as he pledged he would in the Yalta Agreement. Instead, he setup "puppet governments" which did exactly as Mother Russia stated. To protect it's interests for national security, the American Dream, and the belief that all people should have the right to a democratic life, complete with liberty, equality, and a representative government. Also playing a large part in Cold War tensions was the US interest in protecting its pro...
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Heavy Industrial Base Of Vietnam
4,108 wordsVietnam The Socialist Republic of Vietnam consists of the former Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). The division of the country resulted from the defeat of the French by Communist-inspired nationalists in 1954. A prolonged civil war resulted in a victory for the Communist north, and reunification occurred in mid-1976. Physical Setting Vietnam has an area of 127,207 square miles (329,465 square kilometers) and is located in Southeast...
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French Left And Vietnam
1,337 wordsVietnam's Struggle To say the United States was "dragged" into the bloody mess that became Vietnam is to ignore the historical record. The question of whether or not the U.S. should have been fighting over there is of course a different matter. One thing that cannot be questioned however, is the bravery and honor of soldiers who fought and died for their country. French Indochina, which included Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, was occupied by Japanese forces during World War II. Vietnamese Communis...
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North Vietnamese Communists
1,571 wordsThe ICP was formed in Hong Kong in 1930 from the amalgamation of the Vietnamese and the nascent Lao and Khmer communist groups, and it received its instructions from the Moscow-based Communist International (Comintern). Communist Movement The Vietnamese communist movement began in Paris in 1920, when Ho Chi Minh, using the pseudonym Nguyen Ai Quoc, became a charter member of the French Communist Party. Two years later, Ho went to Moscow to study Marxist doctrine and then proceeded to Canton as a...
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President Of Republic Of Vietnam
1,458 words1945 Ho Chi Minh and his People's Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces and Japan transfers all power to Ho's Vietminh. President Roosevelt dies Making good on his threat to unleash. ".. a rain of ruin the like of which has never been seen on earth... ", President Harry Truman authorizes the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan - one on Hiroshima on August 6, and a second on Nagasaki on Aug...
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North Vietnam Through Laos To South Vietnam
2,148 wordsAN INVESTIGATION INTO REASONS FOR RELATIVE LACK OF DEVELOPMENT: LAOS In South East Asia, in the centre of the Southeast Asian peninsula, lies the land-locked country Laos. The country that is now the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR, or Laos) has a slightly greater land area than Uganda and is bordered by several countries. On the north lies China, on the north-east Vietnam, on the south it is bordered by Cambodia, on the west by Thailand, and on the north-west by Burma. These neighbours h...
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Troops To Vietnam One Of The Articles
1,103 words1. In what way was Australia involved in Vietnam in 1965 In 1962 the Government of Australia decided in, response to a request from the South Vietnamese Government, to supply them with military aid. At that time, 30 instructors were sent to assist in the training of the South Vietnamese defense forces. Unofficially, in 1962, troops were sent in to train the South Vietnamese and act as a militia. The Australian public was not made aware of this until many years later after the conclusion of the w...
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U.S. Forces From South Vietnam
881 wordsThe Vietnam Conflict is a dark shadow in America's glorious history. By the end of the conflict 57,605 Americans had been killed, over 300,000 thousand U.S. military officials had been wounded, and America had spent approximately $165 billion ("Vietnam War" 4). The majority of Americans sought after peace indispensably". Washington's struggle to bring the fighting to a close inevitably shifted the U.S. role in the conflict from ally and combatant to mediator between Hanoi and Saigon" ("The Shape...
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Bao Dai In Power Tang
439 wordsTruong Nhu Tang, while in Paris studying to become a pharmacist as was his father's plan, met Ho Chi Minh in 1945. This handful of meetings had an enormous impact on Tang's life. Until that time Tang was ignorant of Vietnamese history and had no interest in politics. After being inspired by Ho Chi Minh, Tang began to devour everything he could get his hands on about political philosophy and colonialism. (p. 18) Tang became so obsessed with his quest for Vietnamese independence that he forsakes e...
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Uncle Ho's Through My Teachers
5,193 wordsHo Chi Minh was born on May 19, 1890 in Kim Lien, Central Vietnam. Ho's family always maintaining patriotic pride in their country and heritage. At an early age Ho found himself following in his father's footsteps; running messages for the anti-French underground and being expelled from school for not conforming to French rule. During Ho's travels overseas, he encountered and studied the Marxist ideals of Socialism and Communism. Ho came to believe that the only way to gain independence in Vietn...
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South On The Day Of The Tet
2,535 wordsEven though the United States won most of the battles up until 1968, nothing could have prepared them for what was to happen on January 30-31, 1968. Prior to the "Tet", otherwise known as the Chinese Lunar New Year, some small battles along Rt. 9 nearby Khe Sahn, had been taking place. The Tet is the same as our new years day, but instead of celebrating number years, they celebrate years of different animals, such as, 1968 was the year of the monkey. After two weeks of silence, American scouts d...
