The United States was not a party to the Geneva Agreements and began to foster the creation of a Vietnamese regime in South Vietnam's autocratic president Ngo Dinh Diem, who deposed Bao Dai in October 1955, resisted holding an election on the reunification of Vietnam. ... By late 1967, his headquarters was claiming that the crossover point had been reached and that enemy strength was being destroyed faster than it could be replenished. ... Nixon, announced a program of Vietnamization, which basically represented a return to the Eisenhower and Kennedy policies of helping Vietnamese forces ...

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By the late 1960s, the conflict in Vietnam had grown to a limited war involving approximately half a million military personnel and billions of dollars a year. The American presence in Indochina had increased from the Truman administration to Kennedy's decision to initiate greater American involveme...

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The people and governments of the French, U.S., Vietnam all had different motives for their involvement in the Vietnam War in the years between 1945 and 1975. The French participation was on the basis of restoring its own power over Indochina. The U.S can blame their exaggerated and misinterpreted ...

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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 could deliver its massive 60,000lb payload up to almost halfway around the world, and could do it at an altitude that VC MiGs couldn't even reach. 4 There were, also, shortcomings in the use of the B-52 also. ... Napalm coated anything it came within reach of, and burned continuously for up to a w...

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Surfing is his passion, and he attempts to bring the beach party lifestyle he is accustomed to into Vietnam. ... Finally they reach his inner sanctum, but nothing prior could have prepared them for this. ...

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In time, the substance then spread its toxic reach to the food chain, leading to a generation of birth deformities. ... " Even though the destructions and effects of Agent Orange is clear, not all party involved have done all they can to help out the victims of the war against Agent Orange. ...

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