History cannot be looked at trough White and Black glasses. ... Cuba and China aided Congolese rebels. ... North Vietnam has been backed by Soviet Union and China. ... "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. ... Introductory Essay to Vietnam: A Television History. ...
Communist Russia and China were strong supporters of the North, and to keep Communism contained the United States sent troops to the South. ... They threatened to bomb China and to use atomic bombs on Korea. ... For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea. ... China lost 967,000, and North Korea lost 624,000. ... Every member supported American arms for the first time, and possibly only time in its short history. ...
"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. ... Nixon wanted to create better relations with China. ... Then China invited him for a visit there in February 1972, and was received by Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The meeting of the two countries, reduced tensions and acknowledged an alteration in world politics, and risks of war with China were reduced. ... One that held a spot in history was a demonstration at Ohio's Kent State University where national guard troops killed four students. ...
Nixon entered office in the midst of one of the gravest foreign policy crisis in American history. ... Nixon imagined a future in which more pleasant relations among the major powers "the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Western Europe, and Japan "would allow for ventures profitable to all. ... To do so would not only be damaging to his image, but would encourage further aggression by the Soviets and the Chinese. ... Nixon hoped that improved relations with the Chinese and the Soviets would spur a quick exit from Vietnam the summits did little to push the war towards...
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...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
Throughout this era however, the phrase 'history repeats itself' comes to mind. ... The Vietnam War became a proxy between the United States, the Soviet Union and communist China. Despite their rivalry for leadership of the communist bloc of nations, the Soviet Union and China collaborated to support North Vietnam's effort to destroy South Vietnam. ... The 7 major mujahidin guerrilla groups were supported by aid from the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia, channeled through Pakistan, and from Iran. ...
(Jezer 33) The integration of the fifties was one of the most pivotal points in United States history. ... (Jezer 102) Throughout the past fifty years in American history, the media has played larger and larger role in how we view our country and the world. ... From the Vietnam War being the first televised war, to the United States spy plane being *censored* down over China, the media is a big influence on how we view the world. ...
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. ...
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...
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. ...
Moreover, the book also depicts the differences between the Vietnam War and other wars such as the World Wars, the Revolutionary war, and Civil War in the history of America. For instance, the Vietnam War is the most costly war ever fought in American history; more than the world wars and the civil war in which American soldiers fought. ... The Vietnam War is also one of the longest fought wars in American history and it also cost the nation a great deal of "expenses", both in finances and body count, compared to other wars. ...
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). ...
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...
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. ...
AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and dec...
