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Most of the war illustrations in the media duringthe Vietnamwar were mainly drawn to?
The new "Helicopter" war.
Was the USNew Jeresy in a operation in vietnamwar?
The Iowa class battleship USS New Jersey worked the gunline with her 16 inch rifles in 1968.
How did the Vietnam War affect America's people?
Most of the college age students in the United States did not like America being involved in the Vietnam War. There were many protests and demonstrations against it. Soldiers coming home from the war were not given the best of welcomes, either. This war put American in very deep debt. The government stole Social Security benefits paid in by American workers to fund the war, which now puts the Social Security fund in future jeopardy.
Vietnam war introduction?
The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War 1 was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or "Viet Cong") against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies�notably the United States military in support of the South, with American combat troops committed from 1965 to 1973.After France's attempted recolonization of Indochina was defeated in 1954 by the Viet Minh at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, an agreement to temporarily partition the country in two with a Demilitarized Zone or DMZ was reached at the Geneva Conference. The DMZ was not a natural division of Vietnam and was not intended to create two separate countries. The scheduled elections for the unification of the country were blocked. The Vietnam War began as a civil war�fought to determine the status of Vietnam as either a unified nation or as one partitioned indefinitely into two independent states, each supported by rival Superpowers (as after the Korean War). Fighting began in 1957, and with U.S. and Soviet-Chinese involvement and support, it would steadily escalate and spill over into the neighboring Indochinese countries of Cambodia and Laos.South Vietnam�and allies such as the U.S.�portrayed the conflict as one based in a principled and strategic opposition to communism, to deter its expansion throughout Southeast Asia and elsewhere. North Vietnam and its Viet Cong allies claimed the war as a struggle to reunite the country and to repel a foreign aggressor�a continuation of the earlier war for independence against the French.After fifteen years of protracted fighting and massive civilian and military casualties, major, direct U.S. involvement ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. Fighting between Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces against the dominant combined People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong forces would soon bring an end to the RVN and the war. With the Northern victory, the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) with a communist-controlled government based in Hanoi.Here is more from WikiAnswers contributors:The USA was trying to stop the spread of Communism in southeast Asia.
What was it like for Australian soldiers in World War I and World War 2?
it was like a blood bath and i as one of them i can not tellypou my name but i am 98 yrs old and i couldn't stand to watch others die and so i pulled out ofter the first world war 1 but went to the Vietnamwar i was so up set to see all the young ppl die my brother died in the war so i was going to kill myself and my friend said don't worry about it he's gone to a better place. well that is all i can remember.AnswerIt was terrible. The had "meat" called bully beef in ww1 which was almost impossible to eat in cold weather and biscuits that would nearly break ur teeth. They had to wear gas masks all the time and sleep in muddy cramped trenches. The lice were almost unbearable and they got "trenchfoot"= their feet swelled up and they couldn't take their boots off because it would be impossible to get them back on. The vermin =rats and bugs ate everything AnswerI just did an assignment on this for History, the question was What was life like for Australian soldiers during World War II: Introduction:World War II was a particularly vicious war that began in 1939 and ended in the year 1945. It was started by the German invasion of Poland and escalated into a world war in which there were approximately 50,000,000 people killed.In a war, soldiers are usually one of the most, if not the most, important aspect or tool but we hear very little of their life during both the fighting and the waiting and so one must ask the question: What was life like for Australian soldiers during World War II?On the Kokoda Trail:The Kokoda Trail campaign was one of the bloodiest and most brutal aspects of Australian soldiers lives everywhere during World War II. On the July 21, 1942, Japanese troops landed on the north coast of New Guinea and began to march over the Owen Stanley Ranges with the intent of capturing Port Moresby. This was an unexpected action and if the Japanese had succeeded with this manoeuvre then Australia would have been in great danger. Australian troops were forced along the trail due to lack of resources.Due to the jungle surroundings on the Kokoda track, the days were boiling hot and humid, the nights were freezing cold and the soldiers were open to such diseases as malaria. Despite the climate, the trail often included extremely steep inclines and often as little as 100 metres could exhaust a soldier.Generally speaking, the life of soldiers on the Kokoda Trail was not good with little resources and a poor environment.In Japanese Prisoner of War camps:Japanese Prisoner of War camps have, since the war, been notorious for the pain and suffering that they caused. During World War II there were Japanese Prisoner of War camps distributed throughout the East, especially in Singapore, Taiwan or Korea, but there was a particularly high concentration of Japanese Prisoner of War camps in Hakodate, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hiroshima and Osaka. During the war, there were more than 140,000 white prisoners in Japanese Prisoner of War camps. Of the prisoners, one out of every three died of starvation, disease, overwork, punishments or cruelty.Camps were enclosed within barbed wire or high wooden fences. Prisoners who tried to escape would be executed in front of other prisoners. In some cases the Japanese also executed ten other prisoners as well.Harry Carver was a survivor of a Japanese Prisoner of War camp and said "I was - a white slave. I worked 12 hours a day on a diet of soya beans and seaweed." Prisoners were seldom given fat or high energy foods in their diet and all were continuously hungry. The majority survived on barley, green stew, meat or fish once a month and seaweed stew. Red Cross parcels were not distributed to the prisoners.European theatre:Generally, life in the European theatre of war was better for Australian soldiers than on many other fronts. The troops were better provided for than in many other situations. The soldiers had better rations, better medical attention, better accommodation and were treated well.While fighting in the European theatre of war, the soldiers were accommodated in tents, trenches or small makeshift shacks. Due to the importance and accessibility of the situation, organisations such as the Red Cross could do more for the soldiers, delivering parcels and much needed medical attention.African and Mediterranean theatre:The major battles and campaigns which occurred in the African and Mediterranean theatre of war included the Balkans and Greek Islands campaign, the North African campaign, the Syria and Lebanon campaign, the Italian campaign, the invasion of southern France and the Yugoslavia campaign.Australia mainly fought in the Mediterranean theatre from the sea, this meant that they were inaccessible to their allies and could only live from what they already had.Living conditions on Naval vessels were reasonably good, with dry quarters which, while small, were clean. The troops were however at the mercy of the weather.Asian and the Pacific theatre:The Pacific War occurred in the Pacific Ocean and Asia. The conflict began in 1937 and then came to a head in 1941 during World War Two when Japan attacked the United States, Thailand, the Philippines and British territories. Today, most Japanese also use the term "Pacific War", while a few Japanese use the term Greater East Asia War.The Pacific War was a war with many casualties for the Australians which served to both dampen their spirits and to incite them.In the Pacific War, the Australians were reasonably close to their allies and so they were not as completely isolated as in the Mediterranean and so if help or supplies were needed, then they were not completely helpless.Middle Eastern theatre:For the first part of the war, the Middle Eastern theatre of the war was quiet, but then on June 10 1940, Fascist Italy declared war on France and Britain. It remained an active theatre for two and a half years until the British Army crossed the border from Libya into Tunisia. In February 1943 command of the Eight Army passed from the British Middle East Command to the Allied Joint command in the Mediterranean Theatre. The Middle East theatre remained quiet for the remainder of the war.Living conditions were particularly poor in the Middle Eastern theatre as the Allies had to cross the Western Desert in defence of Egypt. Despite the heat and the lack of water, the men also suffered and sometimes died of exhaustion and wild animals.Sorry that it's not very good, but it may provide some insight, for further info about Japanese POW's watch Merry Christmas, Mister Lawrence - InsightfulAndrew McInnes
