Vietnam was a country in constant rebellion against the French occupation. They were promised independence by Japan during World War 2 (WW2) when they occupied the land. When the French later retook it after Japans defeat‚ the French negated Japans original promise. Ho Chi Minh was a revolutionary who wanted to pursue Japans original promise. Leading the independence movement against France he established a new communist ruled party in his goal to unify Vietnam. (The Northern Chinese controlled and
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Vietnam War Effects The Vietnam War was a very costly war. It not only affected those in battles‚ but it also left behind long term effects on people everywhere in the world. It was an extremely costly war with over 58‚000 Americans dead and over 150‚000 wounded in battle. Many Americans were affected by the war for so many had died and many more were wounded. North Vietnam was victorious over South Vietnam and allied forces. The Fall of Saigon on April 30‚ 1975 marked the end of a very bloody war
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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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The Vietnam War was probably the most problematic of all US wars‚ not the least due to the fact that there were many paradoxes. The US built up a harsh regime in the south of Vietnam in the name of protecting democracy; “saving” lives by destroying villages and communities. Although America was only meant to "advise" the Vietnamese; the border was crossed very quickly. This was mostly caused by the vague definition of the US objectives; everything was quite unclear and imprecise so that no one really
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Should Australia ban the burqa? As we all know‚ Burqa is a loose‚ usually black or light blue robe that is worn by Muslim women‚ especially in Afghanistan‚ and that covers the body from head to toe. The burqa is not force by the Islamic holy bible‚ Koran. It only say that‚ women and men have to wear modestly in the public. Women‚ especially‚ cannot show their body to a man‚ other than their husband. This is written in the Koran. In Qur’an Sura Nur Chapter: The Light. Verse 31‚ "And say to the faithful
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the front of the war from visuals of death to the destruction the war brought to her homeland. She is an advocate for democratic reform and her novels speak against the communist regime. The Vietnamese communist party expelled her for her protests and ordered that none of her books be published in Vietnam. She served prison time for her protests and later was allowed to travel to France where she lives in exile to this day. None of her work is allowed to be sold or read in Vietnam. The root of the
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South in Vietnam. The question is what conflicts initiated the Cold War. The relationship between the both states already had difficulties from the beginning of time. In the South‚ they usually contained a smaller population than the North but were consequently growing as a group. As everyone knows that a great relationship has to be built by a trust‚ that was the one thing between the states they did not possess. Due to this‚ both of them were set for competition between “the communist regime of
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The Vietnam War was a long armed conflict that the communist regime of North Vietnam and its South Vietnam allies. By 1996 peak of the United States led to divisions among. . Ho Chi minh launched a campaign in South Vietnam. The Vietnam War was the war where children had to attend after high school who didn’t have enough money to attend college. The Vietnam War also have roots Vietnam’s century’s imperial powers‚ and colonial which took over ancient Vietnam‚ then France took over of Vietnam in
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Vietnam War portfolio Causes The Vietnam War was a consequence of the cold war. Since neither the United States nor the Soviet Union could risk fighting each other directly they did it in other countries indirectly like in Vietnam. One of the main causes of the Vietnam War was the Gulf of Tonkin. In the Gulf of Tonkin the USS Maddox was attacked by torpedoes from the Vietnamese. They confirmed it was Vietnamese by the markings on the shells found. Then later on a second attack happened. When the
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THE VIETNAM WAR Did you know about 1.5 million people died during the Vietnam War‚ which was more than the population of New Mexico in the 1960s? Vietnam‚ which is relative in size to New Mexico‚ is a country in Asia that borders the Gulf of Tonkin. The Vietnam War was a result of people in Vietnam wanting independence from France. The US supported the French so that all of Vietnam would not become a communist country and so this would not lead to other countries following in their footsteps
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