conflict in vietnam
During the late nineteenth century the French concouquered Vietnam and made it a protectorate and in 1941 the league for the independence of Vietnam (Viet Minh) was formed to fight for independence from the French and on Sept. 2nd .1945. Ho chi Minh proclaimed it independent from France. The French opposed this and wanted to re-establish their rule but where defeated on the battlefield by the Viet Min and where forced to surrender this ended a war and French rule. After the war there was a conference in Geneva where Vietnam was divided into two parts along the seventeenth parallel there where now a north and a south Vietnam similar to Korea the north being lead by Ho Chi Minh was mainly communist. North Vietnam at the time was a very poor area being cut off from the agricultural benefits of south Vietnam Ho Chi Minh was forced to ask for help from communist allies like the soviet union and china whom gave needed supported both before and during the war. The south lead by an anti-Communist ruler named ngo Dinh Diem was headed towards a democracy. The south being supported by the French and the united states of America clearly shows how closely this conflict was tide to the cold war going on between the eastern and western sup
Although it was not only the bad results in combat which decided whether the U.S.A. would continue It's war efforts. Without the impact, which the American public made on the government the war, effort may have easily gone on even longer. At this point in time most people didn't even know what the war was about in the first place In my opinion just as much respect is due to those people which stood up for what they believed in and protested against what they did not.."The war." The people that stood up for what they believed no matter the circumstances and made their voice's be heard, while knowing what was wrong as well as what needed to make something right. There is no doubt about the large roll in the peace process which all the students, activist groups, hippies, and all those others that like peace played. By 1969 combat on the field had decreased very quickly as American troops where evacuated and returned home to a country which would never be the same to them again. By the end of 1968 the number of u.s. soldiers in Vietnam reached its peak with over 542,000. These stationed U.S. soldiers began to realize that the way things where going the war would last for many more years to come and they were skeptical to whether or not the u.s. war effort could succeed. This was when the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese made the most important decision of the war and planned to strike with everything they had. The two forces simultaneously launched a massive siege against several different United States military bases. They called it the Tet offensive, which lasted from January 30th to February 25th, 1968. One of the largest ground battles of the war was fought when the Vietnamese led a surprise attack against the khe Sanh U.S. firebase. The effects of the Tet offensive where devastating to the U.S. forces and moral not only in the soldiers on the battlefield but to all of America. The Tet offensive ultimately enco
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