Russell War never ends quietly; while the battlefield tells the most immediate brutal stories‚ it is the aftermath that shows the greatest tragedy. The Vietnam War is not an exception; it resulted in countless damages‚ the worst being the psychological trauma suffered by its participants. This therefore becomes a recurring subject explored by many Vietnam War authors‚ who wrote of an experience they lived first hand. The depiction of psychological trauma in their works heightens the brutality of the war
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The Vietnam war is an incredibly controversial topic; some say America won‚ while others say that they lost. In this case‚ America took a major loss‚ they were never winning at any point. The reason the Americans officially lost the war is because they were unable to achieve their goal which was to stop the spread of communism in Vietnam. In fact‚ the exact opposite happened‚ after the American forces left South Vietnam in January of 1975‚ communism immediately overran it. Along with the reasoning
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States Counterinsurgency Operations in Vietnam from 1961 to 1968 The United States policies of counterinsurgency throughout the Vietnam War have largely been criticized by historians‚ government officials‚ and the U.S. population ever since the escalation of occupation the U.S. had in South Vietnam starting in 1961. The Geneva Accords of 1954 stated that there was to be no foreign military presence in North and South Vietnam‚ however the U.S. ignored the accords
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The Vietnam war had a huge effect on the outcomes of the Vietnamese people. According to the Migration Policy website‚ Vietnamese Immigration on the United States‚ Was small one prior to 1795‚ and it has grown a lot. And it has roughly been doubling every decade in 1980-2000. And it has been increasing 26 percent in 2000. And Vietnamese represented the sixth largest immigrant group in the country‚ and those who were born in Mexico‚ India ‚ China. Every year the Vietnamese Immigration has been growing
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To begin‚ what caused the Vietnam war and why did the United States get involved? In the early 1880’s‚ France conquered Vietnam and combined it with the neighboring countries Cambodia and Laos. This created a colony called French Indochina. However‚ in World War II the Japanese drove the French out of Indochina and occupied Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh‚ a communist leader in Vietnam‚ didn’t want to be controlled by another foreign power. Thus he lead a revolt against the Japanese in 1945. Not soon after
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was less important‚ and indochina was also. By 1954 the us was paying 80% of the costs of the french war against the vite communsits. it saw communism as a global monolith‚ the vietnamese not as nationalists but as tools of the sino-soviet bloc. Vietnam was not important in itself but a place to ’draw the line’‚ after china had been lost‚ otherwise like dominoes all seasia would go communist‚ and japan would turn to china as an ally. so said the us president‚ the us could not see that nationalism
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HOLIDAYS IN VIETNAM (Các Ngày Lễ Ở Việt Nam) Liberation Day/Reunification Day - April 30 (Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam thống nhất đất nước) International Workers’ Day - May 1 (Ngày Quốc tế Lao động) National Day (Vietnam) - September 2 (Quốc khánh) New Year - January 1 (Tết Dương Lịch) Tết (Vietnamese New Year) (Tết Nguyên Đán) Hung Kings Commemorations - 10th day of the 3rd lunar month (Giỗ tổ Hùng Vương) -> Hung Kings’ Temple Festival (Lễ hội Đền Hùng) Communist Party of
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Force pilot’s perspective since I read about so much bombing going on during the Vietnam War. He was an FAC (Forward Air Controller) and flew an O-2 single prop airplane during Vietnam from 1968-1969. Major Reginald Hathorn was an instructor at Laughlin Air Force Base when he got the call on Friday of January 1968 that he would have to leave his wife and two daughters to fight in Vietnam. When Major Hathorn got to Vietnam‚ he was immediately hit by the chaos that was happening. His first night he was
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people typically don’t show a lot of support. The United States had won 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
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Difference of Vietnam Veterans There were approximately 536‚100 American soldiers that fought in the Vietnam War‚ and about 58‚220 were killed (Estimated n. pag.); this meant that there were many veterans of the war. The war in Vietnam was different than most‚ not because of the way it was fought or what it was fought over‚ it was different because of the veterans. The war created many Vietnamese veterans‚ and they were different than those of almost every other war. They were different in almost
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