VIETNAM Vietnam was the longest war the United States has ever been a part of. ... Before the war many Americans knew nothing about Vietnam, let alone where it was located. ... A new part of the war was started on January 30, 1968 when North Vietnam and the Viet Cong started attacks on the major cities of South Vietnam. These attacks started at the beginning of the Vietnamese New Year, which is known as Tet. ... On March 29, 1973 the last US troop left Vietnam, but the war did not cease there. ...

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The Vietnam Conflict was the longest "police action" which was not declared by the American Congress as a war. ... In the end the American troops left Vietnam because the American people didn't support the war as much as in the beginning. ... The war then ended on April 30th, 1975. ... The United States spent more than $150 billion on the war. ... One and a half million Vietnamese fled Vietnam between 1975 and the early 1990's. 2,700,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the war and battles. ...

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Among other things, the Pentagon Papers document the activities of sabotage and terror warfare against North Vietnam beginning in 1954 and the moves that encouraged and influenced the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. ... A second major segment of the Johnson administration's covert war against North Vietnam was air operations in Laos, where a force of propeller-driven North American T-28 fighter-bombers had been organized. ... In airborne operations, five teams and a single agent were in place at the beginning of October. ... Was the clandestine war of 1964 o...

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The US policy since the beginning of the Cold War had been containment of Communist aggression and advances. ... During the war with the French, Ho Chi Minh took shelter in northern Vietnam and settled there with his followers. ... ilitary throughout the war. ... Vietnam War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. ... The struggle widened into a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam and ultimately into a limited international conflict. ...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. ... In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. French troops were concentrated in fortresses in North Vietnam fighting a static war. ... French public opinion had long turned against the war and "sale guerre" ("dirty war") was on everyone's lips. ... VIETNAM AFTER THE FIRST INDO-CHINESE WAR The Geneva agreements of 1954, which divided Vietnam along 17th parallel (later known as...

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His actions helped to perpetuate American involvement in Vietnam and promote servile insurrection in Southern Vietnam. ... After the death of his older brother, Diem left Vietnam. ... Many of the nationalist parties opposed him for his absence during the Indo-China Wars, they saw Diem as a sellout for leaving his country during times of war. ... Diem may not have lasted long in power were it not for the financial support of the United States, who supported him tentatively in the beginning, and frivolously and without question in the end (Tucker 82). ... The state of Southern Vietnam was neve...

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The war in Vietnam was a battle in which many major figures around the world played a part. One of the significant figures that played a huge role in the Vietnam War from 1954-1963 was Ngo Dinh Diem. ... The army of republic of Vietnam, also known as ARVN, forced peasants to return the land they owned to the landlords. ... After major political conflicts and military failures, the organization of Diem supporters and admirers were beginning to lose faith in Diem as "its savior " in South Vietnam (Young 94). ... In Washington, Joseph Buttinger, one of Diem's original supporters, argued that...

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