Consequences Of The Vietnam War 1955-1975
Jarod Demastus
Vernon Leach
Copeland Grahmann
Hyunjae Kim
English 4
9/1/2017
Cavaiani
On Our Honor
Vietnam War 1955 - 1975
The start of the Vietnam War:
The Vietnam War with the United States started on November 1st 1955. It ended on April 30, 1975. The Vietnam War lasted a long 20 years, killing more than 3 million people. The Vietnam War was called the American War by the vietnamese people. The Vietnam War was fought in North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The Vietnam War was caused by the actions of consequences of the Cold War. The belief by the United States that communism is threatening to spread throughout Europe and and Asia is one of the biggest causes of the Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War.
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The most painful one was probably the punji sticks which were sharpened spears hidden about five feet underground under a wooden board with leaves over the top of it. On the punji sticks they would usually rub feces on the tips of the spears so when the soldiers fell into the pits they would later get a bacterial infection and die slowly due to the infection with massive amounts of pain. Snake pits were another terrifying way to punish soldiers that stepped onto their land. The pits would be filled with about one hundred angry vipers ready to strike anything that looked like a meal to them. Flag bombs were probably the worst morally, because the U.S takes great pride in the country's flag and they loved to take other countries flags. The Vietnam soldiers decided to booby trap their flag post with grenades and C4’s. So whenever the American soldiers would try and take the Vietnam flags off of the flag post the C4 or grenade would blow up killing whatever troops are around the flag. The Bamboo whip was one of the most painful in terms of long term. One day you could be walking, then the next second you could see a branch of bamboo flying at your body ready to strike. When the soldiers would be walking they would walk over a trip wire causing the bamboo trap to fly at you. If you didn’t die from the hit of the bamboo stick, you would wish it killed you after about a week of being in massive amounts of
Vernon Leach
Copeland Grahmann
Hyunjae Kim
English 4
9/1/2017
Cavaiani
On Our Honor
Vietnam War 1955 - 1975
The start of the Vietnam War:
The Vietnam War with the United States started on November 1st 1955. It ended on April 30, 1975. The Vietnam War lasted a long 20 years, killing more than 3 million people. The Vietnam War was called the American War by the vietnamese people. The Vietnam War was fought in North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The Vietnam War was caused by the actions of consequences of the Cold War. The belief by the United States that communism is threatening to spread throughout Europe and and Asia is one of the biggest causes of the Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War.
The Vietnam …show more content…
The most painful one was probably the punji sticks which were sharpened spears hidden about five feet underground under a wooden board with leaves over the top of it. On the punji sticks they would usually rub feces on the tips of the spears so when the soldiers fell into the pits they would later get a bacterial infection and die slowly due to the infection with massive amounts of pain. Snake pits were another terrifying way to punish soldiers that stepped onto their land. The pits would be filled with about one hundred angry vipers ready to strike anything that looked like a meal to them. Flag bombs were probably the worst morally, because the U.S takes great pride in the country's flag and they loved to take other countries flags. The Vietnam soldiers decided to booby trap their flag post with grenades and C4’s. So whenever the American soldiers would try and take the Vietnam flags off of the flag post the C4 or grenade would blow up killing whatever troops are around the flag. The Bamboo whip was one of the most painful in terms of long term. One day you could be walking, then the next second you could see a branch of bamboo flying at your body ready to strike. When the soldiers would be walking they would walk over a trip wire causing the bamboo trap to fly at you. If you didn’t die from the hit of the bamboo stick, you would wish it killed you after about a week of being in massive amounts of