The Vietnam War began in 1960 with the introduction of American troops into Vietnam. ... Australia fought in the Vietnam War from 1965 until 1972. ... The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong were fighting to unify North Vietnam and South Vietnam as a communist country. ... The fear of communism eventually overtaking Australia was the initial and main reason for Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. ... The Vietnam War has influenced the thinking of many Australian's on the need to work towards a peaceful resolution. ...

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The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. ... It was also the biggest turning point in the Vietnam War. ... In this campaign alone more bombs were dropped on North Vietnam than were used in the whole of World War II. ... The amount of war refugees in Vietnam amounted to over 10 million. ... The Vietnam War was a very controversial war, which lasted over a decade. ...

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The Vietnam War was the longest war in which the United States took part. ... After the Second World War France attempted to re-establish control over Vietnam. ... Communists saw the Vietnam War as an extension of their struggle with France, as another attempt by a foreign power to rule Vietnam, and as a war of national liberation. ... By 1969, the Vietnam War seemed endless, and the United States slowly began to withdraw troops. ... The war finally ended on April 30, 1975 when South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam. ...

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The Vietnam War started in 1985, when Northern Vietnam began attacking Southern Vietnam over government issues. ... Southern Vietnam didn't really like that, thus a civil war started. ... One poet from the Vietnam War was Bruce Weigl. ... Bruce had a first hand experience in the Vietnam war. ... The Vietnam War changed so many things in America. ...

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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. ... The Vietnam War gives birth to a striking epiphany that war is directly comparable to love. ... Love and war are closely linked forces of combat that became intertwined during Vietnam. ... The Vietnam War also fashions a striking realization that war is real. ... True war, like Vietnam, is relentless. ...

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" The Vietnam War was fought to support our alliance with the US and in the effort to stop the spread of communism. ... Menzies view on the Vietnam War was that at all costs it had to be fought by Australians and won, he greatly supported the war against communism that it was to neutralize the threat and to serve our alliance with the US under the ANZUS treaty. ... This wasn't a big issue until 1966 when the government announced they would be sending the conscripts overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. ... Most of the newspaper such as "the Age" stated that the Vietnam War...

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The Vietnam War was fought not only in Vietnam but also in surrounding countries such as Cambodia and Laos. There are many contributing factors for the beginning of the Vietnam War which was all linked to the Cold War. ... Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given control of the Southern Vietnam while the Chinese were given the Northern Vietnam. ... War began out between the North and the South with communist countries supporting North Vietnam and democratic countries supporting South Vietnam. ... Communist forces in The Vietnam War were: North Vie...

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The Vietnam War was a prolonged conflict, extending from 1954 to 1975, between the communist government of North Vietnam and the non-communist government of the South. ... In Australia, public opinion on the war in Vietnam moved through several stages throughout its involvement in the war. ... The Vietnam War was the longest war Australia was ever involved in. ... The violence of the Vietnam War began to spill onto Australian streets with television news and photos of the conflict fuelling the growth of opposition to the war. ... Nearly 40 years on, the after-effects of the Vietnam War still l...

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During the Vietnam war people were extremely mad. ... Much of the music in the 1960s was one of the key means of protest for people against the Vietnam War (Hopkins). ... Society in the 60s were greatly influenced by music that protested the Vietnam War. ... The Vietnam War had an effect on everyone.. ... He was big part of Woodstock and protest music during the Vietnam War (Chuvalas). ...

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Branded as the second Indo-China War, the Vietnam War (1961-1975) brought to light a new environmental issue: ecocide - a widespread disrespect and destruction of nature and the environment. ... " As a result, South Vietnam's environment suffered mass destruction of its forests, ecosystem and soil. Using a highly toxic herbicide known as Agent Orange, The United States depleted a huge amount of South Vietnam's forest. ... The white cheeked Gibbon, Sarus Cranes, wild water buffalos and the deer were a few of the species heavily affected by the war. ... The Vietnamese environmen...

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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 entered the war as a teenager in a war stricken country. ...

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This was Eisenhower's reason for sending soldiers and aid to South Vietnam. ... "It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1862.html). ... Overall, the Vietnam War was an unnecessary disaster but the war did have some positive outcomes. ... In fact, "the following year the federal government funded $1 billion to conduct research on the chemical poisoning of veterans"" (http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/The-Vietnam-War-and-Its-Impact-Lessons-and-legacies.html#b). The Vietnam War also showed that it is not always beneficial fo...

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There are a number of differences between the Korean and Vietnam wars. ... Both of these wars were expensive, the Korean War cost the US $67 billion and Vietnam cost $140 billion . ... The Vietnam War commenced very differently from Korea, the Korean War originated internally when North attacked South, but Vietnam was started externally by the United States. ... On 30th April 1975, South Vietnam fell to the communists, and America lost the war against communism. ... Historian, Neil Sheenan believes that Vietnam will have been a war in vain only if we fail to draw wisdom from it. . ...

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The war in veitnam Only hours after Lyndon Johnson Had became president of the United States in 1963, his first words on the Vietnam War were "I am not going to lose Vietnam. ... Johnson believed that the key to success in the war in Vietnam was to frighten North Vietnam's leaders with the possibility of full-scale U.S. military intervention. ... By early 1967, the war wa! ... The Communist Party believed that the American people were growing war-weary and that they could humiliate Johnson and force the United States to hand over south Vietnam. ... e war. ...

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Iraq and Vietnam The Vietnam War was fought over 14 years and it was a lot bigger than Iraq war. ... The Vietnam War was an awful war that affected millions of people in many different countries. Wars usually start because there is a difference in people's opinions, and the Vietnam War that was the case. ... Then in 1946 Vietnam's leader (who was also a communist), Ho Chi Minh organized the people of North Vietnam and took out the French rulers in a war that took around eight years. ... So one of the differences between the Iraq war and the Vietnam war was validity ...

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While he could most likely find any number of other examples of bad or poor news coverage, he focuses on the news coverage during the Vietnam War. ... While coverage of the Vietnam War may have been flawed, it is not necessarily all the Medias fault. Cohen bases most of his theories on the role the media played during the Vietnam War on one incident that took place during the month of March in 1968. ... Both Cohen and I agree that it wasn't the media that turned public opinion against the war, but the public that made the media start to report what was really going on in the jungles o...

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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 Vietnamese War, as defined to me in the New Standard Encyclopedia, was " an undeclared war for the control of South Vietnam, starting in 1957 and ending in 1975." The war began as a Communist guerrilla campaign supported by North Vietnam, w...

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They have no sense of why they are even in this war; this is not their war to fight. ... The Vietnam War is unlike any war the United States of America has ever participated in. ... To them there is no great purpose in this war as in The Revolutionary War or World War II. ... The Vietnam War begins because of the fear of the communist "domino effect". China and the Soviet Union are communist, and now Vietnam wants to be communist. ...

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The Vietnam War was the longest and perhaps, the most controversial war in American history. The war lasted from 1955 to 1975; U.S. involvement began in 1961, with 60,000 American servicemen killed and approximately 2 million Vietnamese death (Over view of the Vietnam War). ... Vietnam was one of America's most dangerous and controversial wars. "The risk of being killed in combat in Vietnam was seven times greater than the risk in World War ll" (Hayman and Sommers-Flagan and Parsons 363). Vietnam veterans were the first to fight in an American war that is not recalled with prid...

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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. ... The "Hawks supported the war and the fight against communists and the "Doves" were against the war and didn't think America was a risk from North Vietnam or communism. ... 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. ... On March 29, 1973 the last US troop left Vietnam, but the war did not cease there. ...

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The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. ... The only war was not being fought in Vietnam but back in the United States as well. ... Former Vietnam veterans even supported to end the war. The veterans established a group known as the Vietnam Veterans against War. ... The war did not only affect the people in Vietnam but the people in the U.S. as well. ...

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When people talk about the Vietnam war, more often than not, they are referring to the war between the U.S.A. and the North Vietnamese Forces, led by Ho Chi Minh. ... After the war, the Vietminh controlled north Vietnam while an unpopular government setup by the French with it's capital in Saigon controlled the South. ... The Australian Government setup a propaganda campaign that the Vietnam war was a simple struggle between freedom and communism, and that free nations had to stop communism from spreading around the world. But this was not the first time the Australian Army had been invol...

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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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The foreign policies of President Eisenhower led to the involvement of the Americans in the Vietnam War, but to a limited extent. ... These foreign policies led to an effective involvement in the Vietnam War from an American perspective. ... Preventing Vietnam from becoming a communist state would become imperative given the state of affairs in the post World War II era. From the 1880's until World War II, France governed Vietnam as part of French Indochina under the control of Emperor Bao Dia. ... Two months later in July, foreign ministers of nineteen nations met at Geneva to end ...

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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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