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The Vietnam War was the first war that the United States lost.
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What was the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
The escalation of the Vietnam guerrilla war into a conventional war against North Vietnam.
What is the significance of the tonkin gilf resolution?
It transformed the guerrilla war in South Vietnam into a conventional war in both South Vietnam and a war directly against North Vietnam.
Which confrontation had the most lasting significance?
The Korean War and the Vietnam War had the most lasting significance; we're still mourning our dead.
What is the significance of the Tonkin Gulf resolution?
It authorized the US President to escalate the Vietnam War from a guerrilla war into a conventional war against North Vietnam.
What was the significance of the machine gun?
The significance of the machine gun is that it kills more people yearly in the United States than in the Vietnam War and Golf War.
What is the significance of the eight trees planted around the Vietnam memorial?
These eight trees stand for the eight woman that died in the Vietnam war.
What was the significance of the Vietnam War in relation to the Cold War?
COLD WAR=No Shooting/communists and Free World facing each other Vietnam War=Shooting/communists and Free World shooting at each other
What was the significance of viet cong?
They were the "guerrilla" aspect of the Viet War. In contrast to the "regulars" (the NVA) who were the conventional portion of the Vietnam War.
What was the overall significance of the battle of the gulf of tonkin?
The significance was, that it transformed the guerrilla war in South Vietnam into a general war with North Vietnam, as well as transforming the guerrilla war in S. VN into a conventional war. Another words; instead of using special warfare troops for guerrilla warfare; the US was now using Bombers, Battleships, and Tanks.
What was the significance of search and destroy to the Vietnam war?
The war was fought by killing (attrition) not by taking ground. Search and Destroy: Meaning find them, and then kill them.
Significance of Ho Chi Minh?
President of North Vietnam. North Vietnam's commander in chief during the war.
Was the Vietnam war in Pennsylvania?
No, the Vietnam War was in Vietnam
When did Vietnam leave the Vietnam war?
The Vietnam War ended in 1975.
Did the United states win the war with Vietnam?
With North Vietnam (not Vietnam; Vietnam was created after the war). No, the US did not win the war.
Who won the Vietnam war between US and Vietnam?
the war between Vietnam and the USA the winner was Vietnam
How much money did Vietnam spend on the war?
See: Vietnam War & Statistics about the Vietnam War
Where did they fight the Vietnam war?
Air war-North Vietnam Ground war-South Vietnam
Who was the victor of the Vietnam war?
Q who was the victor of the Vietnam war? A I have no idea who won the Vietnam war!!!!
Define a Vietnam War Officer?
A military officer that fought in the Vietnam War. A Vietnam War soldier would be a "soldier that fought in the Vietnam War.
What are major characteristics of the Vietnam war?
Air war over North Vietnam. Ground war in South Vietnam; Riverine war in South Vietnam.
Who lived in Vietnam during the Vietnam war?
The Vietnamese lived in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Did France loose the Vietnam war?
Yes. Vietnam was a French colony. They lost a Vietnam War and were thrown out of Vietnam before America tried to win a war in Vietnam. America also lost a Vietnam War.
What was the significance of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
1. Transitional phase of the war, from a strictly guerrilla war in South Vietnam to a conventional war between the regular army of North Vietnam and the regular Army of the United States in South Vietnam. 2. Open warfare between North Vietnam and the US; commencing with the direct aerial bombing of North Vietnam in August 1964. Followed up by Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965.
What was the significance of vietnamization?
The significance of Vietnamization was that it allowed U.S. troops to withdraw without actually losing the Vietnam War by training the Southern Vietnamese to fight the Vietminh and Vietcong instead of the US troops.
What war came after Vietnam War?
The Korean War came after the Vietnam War.
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