Its eastern border is the South China Sea. ... HISTORY AND CULTURE 1. For one thousand years, Vietnam was part of China. ... Chinese political and social institutions were introduced. ... To a considerable degree, this southward expansion (known in Vietnamese history as "the March to the South-) was a response to the growing need to locate additional cultivatable land for the peasants living in the crowded Red River Delta. ...

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The country was then divided along the 17th parallel of latitude, with the south being supported by the United States, and the northern communist lead by Ho Chi Minh was allied by Russia and China. ... Historian Buttinger stated that, "Ho Chi Minh over the years had succeeded in creating for his country as an anti-French, anti-Japanese, anti-Chinese force. ... Eisenhower took over and was absolutely convinced that China would intervene in the war on the side of Ho Chi Minh against France, just as they did in North Korea against the U.S, to prevent such an intervention Eisenhower increased ai...

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He learns and memorizes a lot world history especially Vietnamese history and of course he is a Vietnamese guy. My brother graduated High- school in 1994 in Vietnam; nevertheless, he has rather learned traditional Chinese dance since he was a child about eleven years old. ...

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Vietnam: The War We Should Have Won The Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. ... Obviously, the Vietnamese wanted their own country, and their long history of being a colony prompted the oppressed people to fight for their independence in the French-Indochina war. 7 Ho Chi Min, a leader of the Communist party, organized the Vietnamese independence movement, Viet Minh. ... It was only after Russia and China offered to help that Ho adopted communist ideals and wanted to make all of Vietnam communist. ... More tonnage of ordinance was dropped in any given week d...

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By definition, the Vietnam War was a protracted military conflict between the Communist forces of North Vietnam supported by China and the Soviet Union and the non-Communist forces of South Vietnam supported by the United States. ... If the book of history known as Vietnam is put on a shelf and is never read, then no one will truly know what war is like and what a great blessing peace is. ...

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The Americans see it as a blemish upon their history because they couldn't decisively get the victory that they wanted, but the Vietnamese people have not gotten the life that they thought independence would bring them either. ... They are slowly moving towards establishing relations not only with their other Southeast Asian neighbors by joining the ASEAN, but also have worked on their relations with China and the United States. ...

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Also, many other countries were involved in their decolonization process like Japan, the United States and at times China. ... At first, he went to China and sought the help of nationalist government of the Kuomintang. ...

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To properly understand how America's involvement in Vietnam came about one must look back into history a long ways. ... I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went". ... The Vietnam War was the first war in the history of the United States to be fought on foreign and domestic soil at the same time. ...

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You Can Kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win" (Lowe 10). Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated...

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One problem with Johnson's approach was instead of sending ships and Gatling guns, he sent B-52 bombers that could carpet bomb miles of territory easily, Defoliants that killed jungles and humans alike, and ground fire power that was greater that any in history. ... Congress was threatening a bill of impeachment indicated it would cut off all funding for operations in Indo-china once U.S. forces had withdrawn. ...

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The French had split what was known today as Vietnam into three separate states - Cochin China (South Vietnam), Annam (Central Vietnam), and Tonkin (North Vietnam)". ... According to History Learning Site, Ho Chi Minh was a leader of Vietnam against France, Japan and United States. ...

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From the ancient time with one thousand years of dominance from China, to the 1800s with one hundred years of being a colony under France and Japan. ... The Vietnam War marked the country's first struggle as an independent nation, it saw the bloodiest battle it its history. ... In the book "Vietnam War A History" written by Karnow Stanley was talked about the Agent Orange was first sprayed into the jungle of Vietnam in 1965, and was used broadly at the height of the war (1967-1969). ...

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U.S. History Interview Jason Paris 1. What impact did the Cuban Missile Crisis on your community or family? " On me it didn't really effect me, I was at Ft. Rucker at the time." No people were really afraid. "The media would make it out to be more than it really was. The military knew...

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Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... "Participants in the Geneva Conference were the four parties that had called for the meeting, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States; also present were China, Cambodia, and Laos; and representing elements within Vietnam itself were spokesmen Bao Dai's government and for the Vietminh. ...

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