Vietnam: The War We Should Have Won The Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. ... Before the War Even years before the war, Vietnam was a hotly disputed territory. Many countries had taken Vietnam over, and after World War II, Vietnam was in the hands of France. ... The Vietnam war started simply because Ho Chi Min and his communist supporters wanted South Vietnam to become communist after the South split off in 1954 to become its own democratic nation. ... Beginnings of a Nightmare As early as 1954, the United States started sending financial and military aid...

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Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. ... We failed to accomplish the goals we created in the beginning. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. The Vietnam conflict only became a larger issue when a civil war broke out in Laos, We needed to find out how serious this problem was so we sent vice president Johnson to Vietnam to assess the issue. ...

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Vietnam Many believe that America's involvement in the Vietnam War was a disaster. ... One question that comes to mind when thinking about the Vietnam War is our reasoning for entering the war and what our enemies thought about America's intervention in the war. ... After analyzing this statement one can make a direct connection to moral authority and America's actions at the time of the Vietnam War. ... President after president avoided being charged with the loss of the Vietnam War. ... Hayslip and her people were under communist rulers from the beginning, communism ...

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The Vietnam War Throughout the past century, there have been numerous controversial topics from suffrage to slavery. Perhaps one of the most controversial, at least in my opinion, was the war in Vietnam. Even today, right now, if you ask someone what he or she thinks about the Vietnam War, you are sure to get an earful. ... The war began as a Communist guerrilla campaign supported by North Vietnam, who sought control of South Vietnam. ... In the beginning, I feel that the American people stood firmly behind the actions of our government officials. ...

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From 1965 until 1973, the United States of America was at war with the communist nation of North Vietnam. ... Beginning with protesting mainly on college campuses, the anti-war, or peace, movements escalated into violent acts in which innocent lives of young Americans were lost. ... Americans now commonly believe that the war in Vietnam fueled the anti-government and anti-war movements that shocked American society and ultimately led to the United State's failure in Vietnam. ... Unfortunately, the negative image of the Vietnam War is greatly influenced by Hollywood's portrayal of t...

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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR Why was there a Vietnam War?? This question has been asked a lot of times since the war. ... The United States war in Vietnam had no beginning and it was a series of steps between 1950-1965 "in May 1950, President Harry S. ... The United States was now at War! Since there were so many starting points in the Vietnam War it complicated to say the causes of the U.S entry. ...

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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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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 Tet offensive which began at the end of January 1968 was the largest operation of the war in Vietnam to date. ... The attacks on the south continued for many months and had the effect of dramatically changing US military and political policies towards the whole Vietnam War. ... Johnson agreed to this change in policy, which was the beginning of 'Vietnamisation'. ... He then stunned America by declaring that he would not run for re-election in 1968, but would instead concentrate on dealing with the war in Vietnam. ... Johnson had lost a lot of support for the war, and decided th...

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Air Force base in South Vietnam. ... Politically LBJ was beginning to lose support for his war; scores of Americans were coming home never to see their families again. ... When Nixon attempts to "Vietnamize" the war, he gains strong support. ... Later Fords efforts to bring more weapons to Vietnam proved to be fatal. ... Confidence in America was lost by many key economic and political allies causing in s sense, salt to be poured on the already deep wound left by the war in Vietnam. ...

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In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. ... Small begins his outline of the anti-war movement with what he calls the "Americanization of the war" when the majority of Americans were supportive of action in Vietnam. ... Despite popular support of the president, this early stage of the war was also the beginning of the anti-war movement as teach-...

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At the same time, the movement against the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war was beginning to gain national prominence. ... The stirrings of a possible war with Vietnam started began in 1962, when president JFK ordered military advisers to go to Vietnam in order to assist the south Vietnamese army in their attempt to overthrew the corrupt, oppressive and unpopular "Diem Regime". ... Which only escalated the war and lead to 400,000 US troops in Vietnam. ... This caused Anti-war movements to grow across the country. ... Now the ending of the war was in 1973 when Richard M. ...

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The Vietnam War was responsible for widespread protests and demonstrations throughout the late 1960s. ... A 1980 movie, A Rumor of War, based on Philip J. ... There was no fighting, no enemy, and for Caputo, no war. It was as if the insurrection in Vietnam was a fantasy war set in a steamy and tropical land far from his usual environment. ... They were beginning their tour of Vietnam. ...

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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 decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. ... In the sixties the "Cold War" was heating up. ... Many feel that because of Kenn...

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He faced the major challenge - Vietnam War. ... However, his efforts to negotiate a compromise with North Vietnam were futile. ... Nixon was determined not to be defined by the war. ... This was the beginning of illegality created by the administration. ... However, in the beginning the story did not get much attention from the public. ...

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Humphrey McCarthy would become a strong runner during the beginning of the campaign and then would start to fold over during the end of the election. ... During the election race, McCarthy would be most concerned with the war in Vietnam, calling it illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional. ... McCarthy would make reference to the war as still having to do with the Cold War, which he said was over now and Vietnam did not have to be fought, at all. ... Kennedy and McCarthy would show difference in their campaigns when it came to the war in Vietnam. Kennedy would call for the war to be ended,...

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Nixon campaigned with telling the public that he would end the Vietnam War. Nixon blamed President Johnson's actions of adding troops and criticized his decisions of escalating the war in Vietnam. ... The plan of Vietnamization seemed to be very well developed in its beginning stages, but soon became much more complicated later in the war as Nixon was faced with lots of new challenges. ... Lots of platoons had parties in their bunkers and refused to fight. 3 Nixon became aware of the soldier's issues in Vietnam and looked for new ways to try to make peace and end the war with the...

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He chronicles his experiences beginning with his working class background from his tour of duty in World War I, to tenure at Spelman College, and to his disposition of the Vietnam War. ... He did not go there expecting to play a role in the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movements. ... Being a veteran of World War I made him realize the horrors of war and why it occurs. ... After Japan he wrote a book to illustrate why the United States should withdraw from Vietnam immediately. Vietnam: The Logic of Withdraw was a deep critique questioning the morality of the war and questioning the motives ...

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Johnson encountered one of his biggest obstacles in 1959 when the Vietnam War had begun as a result of Communist-led nationalists rising to opposition to the government in South Vietnam (Encarta 2001, "Johnson, Lyndon Baines".) ... Right from the beginning, John inherited from the Eisenhower administration that the United States would not permit South Vietnam to fall to Communism (Goodwin, Doris 253.) ... That was the only event that occurred before Johnson was fully in support of the Vietnam War and increased military involvement. After months upon months of brutal war, Johnson resolved tha...

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This book starts talking about the beginning of the 1960s and how everyone seemed to have great expectations for better things to come. ... Around the mid-part, the Vietnam War and Civil rights are highly talked about. Also, there is discussion about President Johnson's Great Society (war on poverty, war on racism, Medicare, etc., which seemed to have good intentions, but rather unrealistic since poverty and racism seemed to continue even after the 1960s were long gone, and poor people seemed to find a reason not to improve themselves,(why bother trying to get a job when you can go on wel...

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"Once a man has been in politics, once that's been in his life, he will always return if the people want him." (Richard M. Nixon) Richard Nixon's the thirty seventh president of United States (1969-1974), was born in Yorba-Linda, CA in 1913. Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and D...

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Kennedy was a careless student until his senior year at Harvard when he became concerned with World War II in 1940. ... It explained why England was not prepared for war. ... The cold war was at its height, Kennedy wanted to eradicate communism and he was especially concerned about Cuba. ... Many other problems including The Berlin Wall, The Cuban Missile Crisis and The Vietnam War all began early in Kennedy's term. ... At the beginning of his last period class, he is summoned to the school office. ...

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Beginning with his time spent in the Navy, he would prove that one man can make a difference in the lives of others. ... During World War II, at 2:30 a.m. on August 2, 1943, Kennedy's boat, PT-109, was hit by a Japanese ship in the South Pacific. ... The main purpose it served at the time was to create peace throughout many countries during the Cold War. ... In May of 1961, Kennedy decided to take action against South Vietnam. ... Unfortunately, this plan was not a success because North Vietnam won the war. ...

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The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American astronauts landing on the moon, the Arms Race with Russia, the Civil Rights Movement, the assignation of Martin Luther King, Jr., and on and on. ... Though this was not the first sit-ins to occur this was the beginning of list of events that changed everything. ...

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