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- The Vietnam War, a major event in history, started with France colonizing Southeast Asia in the late 1800s. The conflict escalated with the rise of the Viet Minh liberation movement, led by Ho Chi Minh. The war intensified with the U.S. involvement due to their anti-communist stance. The war ended with North Vietnam's victory in 1975.
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Sep 13, 2017 · • June 1949: The French install former emperor Bao Dai as head of state in Vietnam. • August 1949: The Soviet Union explodes its first atom bomb in a remote area of Kazakhstan, marking a tense...
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The Vietnam War, a major event in history, started with France colonizing Southeast Asia in the late 1800s. The conflict escalated with the rise of the Viet Minh liberation movement, led by Ho Chi Minh.
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- Carpet bombing is a large aerial bombing done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land. The phrase evokes...
- Yes, in many ways the U.S did partly start the war. The Gulf of tonkin incident( when a u.s ship was officially attacked by NVA patrol boats) which...
- After the Tet Offensive and use of Guerrilla warfare, many soldiers became 'trigger happy' and furious with the Vietnamese and attacked the place w...
- The claim that the United States practiced isolationism prior to World War II is horrendously untrue. The United States invaded Hawaii i 1893, Cuba...
- Actually carpet bombing was not even that effective in Vietnam. The Vietnamese had so many tunnel systems, you would just bomb in and they would co...
- The triumph of the war would be the end of foreign intervention in the nation. That happened.
- Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and is still called Hanoi.
- the term 'cold war' means that no 'shots were fired or battles fought' a 'hot war' would be a war where there were lots of battles and shots fired...
- Both Laos and Cambodia were ill-governed by their respective governments. The ruthless Khmer-rouge government in Cambodia was terrible, and the wor...
- Do you mean, "Why didn't the US massacre millions of Soviet Civilians and soldiers who had been drafted into the armed forces there?" Or are you su...
- Roots of the Vietnam War. Ho Chi Minh. Vietnam, a nation in Southeast Asia on the eastern edge of the Indochinese peninsula, had been under French colonial rule since the 19th century.
- When Did the Vietnam War Start? The Vietnam War and active U.S. involvement in the war began in 1954, though ongoing conflict in the region had stretched back several decades.
- The Viet Cong. With the Cold War intensifying worldwide, the United States hardened its policies against any allies of the Soviet Union, and by 1955 President Dwight D. Eisenhower had pledged his firm support to Diem and South Vietnam.
- Domino Theory. A team sent by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to report on conditions in South Vietnam advised a build-up of American military, economic and technical aid in order to help Diem confront the Viet Cong threat.
The Vietnam War was a prolonged military conflict that started as an anticolonial war against the French and evolved into a Cold War confrontation between international communism and free-market democracy.
- The government most likely knew about these dangers. However, they were probably mostly focused on stopping the spread of communism because of the...
- Question 1: "did it seem like an utter waste of time and resources?" Yes, to me (who served in Vietnam with the US Army for 11 months in 1970) it s...
- At the time of Vietnam there was also a large student population that resisted being sent as well as a draft. This draft disproportionately targete...
- The Allies promised Vietnam freedom from French enslavement if they would help fight the Japanese. When the war was over France received their "col...
- All American men had to register for the draft at age 18. When a draft took place, it randomly selected men between the ages of 18 to 25. One cavea...
- Oh, I think that if you consider the Holocaust or the slaughters at the time of Indian partition, you might find things more horrible. My brother e...
- A US Navy Warship, the USS Maddox, was in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin conducting spy operations on the sovereign nation of North Vie...
- Let's see if we can disect that. Vietnam is in Asia. America got involved in a war there, sending many Americans all the way to Asia. When the war...
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6 days ago · The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It was part of a larger regional conflict as well as a manifestation of the Cold War.
Aug 20, 2020 · Here are six events that led to the Vietnam War. Vietnam War Timeline. 1. The Collapse of French Indochina and Rise of Ho Chi Minh. Vietnam became a French colony in...
