Vietnam War Research Paper and Project Your Mission: Choose a topic of interest on the Vietnam War. I have provided a list of various topics below these instructions. From that list choose one that appeals to you. I will consider other thoughtful topic choices not from the list‚ but any of these must be approved by me! Second: Once you have your topic narrow it down. Avoid having such a broad topic that you are swimming with information. Make sure you have a clear and concise thesis that either
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Vietnam was a small Asian country‚ 9000 miles away from the United States. Yet America felt that its national interest was threatened strongly enough to fight a war there. The explanation for this lies in the fear caused by the spread of communism at that time. The role of communism was extremely important in this conflict. You see‚ the US had to enter the war to stop the spread of communism in Asia since North Vietnam was communist. If North Vietnam was to succeed in converting Vietnam into a communist
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have to do with the 1960’s? Look for things besides rebellion against the Vietnam War. The student movement was the next major social change movement to develop in the 1960s. Many of its early organizers had first become politically active in the early 1960s working alongside blacks in civil rights protests. The student movement worked primarily to fight racism and poverty‚ increase student rights‚ and to end the Vietnam War. At the core of the student movement was a belief in participatory democracy
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not do it all" (Turbulent Years: The 60s 36). Lyndon B. Johnson is a president torn to pieces by war. He glows in the passage of bills benefiting American society. He is someone who has suffered through an entire generation of rebellious teens. What impact did Johnson ’s foreign policies concerning Vietnam War have on American society? The Vietnam War really isn ’t a war. Congress never declared war and thus‚ it is constitutionally considered police action. The United States can have troops in an
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American involvement in the Vietnam War justifiable? Beginning on the first day of November in 1955‚ the second Indochina War was fought between North Vietnam‚ who was communist‚ and the government of South Vietnam‚ that was anti-communist. For the most part the war was fought in the countries of Vietnam‚ Cambodia‚ and Laos‚ and lasted approximately 20 years. There is a large debate amongst many people about whether the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam war is justifiable or not‚ but it
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The Vietnam War had a tremendous social‚ environmental‚ political and economic impact upon both parties that fought. The most direct impact of the Vietnam War was the staggering death toll on both sides‚ with 1.35 million total deaths‚ 1.1 million of which were North Vietnamese troops. . (Sparknotes Editors‚ 2015) Between the years of 1965 and 1971‚ US planes dropped over two million tonnes of bombs on the jungles of Vietnam. This was part of the US’s new plan‚ “Operation Rolling Thunder”‚ the aim
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both World Wars‚ with that said‚ most Americans supported both those Wars. Vietnam emulates the complete opposite‚ a pointless family more crowded in controversy and fought thousands of miles away. It had all the makings to become the most unpopular American war ever. Since Vietnam did not go well at all for the US Military many people did not support the war and its soldiers. The use of Agent Orange on top of the My Lai massacre gave U.S. citizens all the ammunition they needed to wage a war to protest
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As a result from all the protesting‚ lifestyles‚ families and friends were disturbed. The war split NZ into two sides - people who felt strongly that the war was a terrible mistake on behalf of NZ‚ and people who it didn’t effect very strongly. This caused some families to fall apart‚ because of their beliefs. For the people who weren’t effected as significantly‚ they just carried on with their normal day to day lives. The events didn’t effect them or bother them as much as it did to others. Some
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Vietnam War Essay The Vietnam War was the war that the Government and general public say Australian Soldiers should never have been fighting in. The civil war between North and South Vietnam which lasted from 1962-1972 was the battle of communism. Australian soldiers entered the Vietnam War with the intention of stopping Communism from coming to Australia‚ our country. The fear of this economic‚ political and social system was the main reason for Australia’s willingness to be part of the war. Australia’s
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first of over two million American boots touched ground in Vietnam in May of 1965‚ but for what reason were they being deployed to a foreign country? Most soldiers did not even know the exact reason they were being deployed. Derek Seidman’s article tells the world that soldiers did not know why they were actually fighting. The article states: Few knew why they were fighting; once they arrived in-country‚ the Cold War rationale for the war felt like a vapid abstraction. The “body count” strategy seemed
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