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Ho Chi Minh Gulf Of Tonkin
738 wordsIndochina is made up of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It was colonized by the French in the late 1800 's and given up in 1939. Japan took over Frances loss after that. After Japans defeat in 1945, Vietnam's patriot and communist, Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh declared Vietnam independent. After that, France came to claim their loss. The US supported France fearing the "Domino Theory" would take affect after in 1949 China fell to communism. In 1950, the US sent troops to South Korea to prevent the ...
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Ho Chi Minh Gulf Of Tonkin
1,724 wordsIndochina is made up of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It was colonized by the French in the late 1800 's and given up in 1939. Japan took over France's loss after that. After Japan's defeat in 1945, Vietnam's patriot and communist, Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh declared Vietnam independent. After that, France came to claim their loss. The US supported France fearing the "Domino Theory" would take affect after in 1949 China fell to communism. In 1950, the US sent troops to South Korea to prevent th...
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World War Ii U S Soldiers
2,507 wordsThe Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by an almost third-world nation, but we lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won, or even prevented in the first place. The United States could have and should have won this war, with a combination of better weapons usage, better tactics, and better support from their home country. Before the War Even years before the war, Vietnam was a hotly disputed t...
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U S Military Gulf Of Tonkin
1,280 wordsRobert McNamara In Retrospect Random House New York, 1995 Vietnam had long since been a place of controversy, and where our government focused it? s fear of communism for many years. Throughout the Kennedy and Johnson administrations the government maintained that the war between the Communist north and the south can only be won by the South Vietnamese, and that our military cannot win it for them. It stressed that the fall of South Vietnam to communism would threaten the rest of the western wor...
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U S Involvement Lyndon B Johnson
2,682 words? ? Lyndon B. Johnson? ? s Decision Not to Declare War in Vietnam? ? The Vietnam War is truly one of the most unique wars ever fought by the Unites States or by any country. It was never officially declared a war. It had no official beginning or an official end. It was fought over 10, 000 miles away in a virtually unknown country. It is a classic story of good guys versus bad, communism versus freedom, and a constant struggle for stability. America? ? s attempt to aid the cause of freedom was a ...
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United States Government Gulf Of Tonkin
2,156 wordsGOVERNMENT LIES FROM VIETNAM For nearly a decade, the civil conflict in Vietnam was merely a footnote to the evening news in the United States. But with the first reports of an? unprovoked attack? on the U. S. destroyer Maddox by the North Vietnamese in the summer of 1964, Americans were faced with a whole new vernacular of war. The United States government consistently lied to the American people through propaganda, censorship, and disinformation during the Vietnam War in order to gain support ...
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Gulf Of Tonkin Spread Of Communism
1,042 wordsBarry Goldwater, Arizona state senator, decided to run for the office of President of the United States of America in 1964. His opponent was Lyndon Baynes Johnson who had held the office the year previous due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. One of the biggest issues for both candidates was the situation in Vietnam. Vietnam was the longest war in which the US took part. It lasted between 1957 and 1975, but the US did not become officially involved until 1965. Vietnam, a small country in ...
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Gulf Of Tonkin End The War
1,120 wordsThe Second Vietnam War 1960 - 1975 And American The Second Vietnam War 1960 - 1975 And American Involvement August 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? s Regime: > Refused to hold reunification talks or hold elections promised under the terms of the Ge...
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