Vietnam War

From what my mom told me, U.S wanted to take over Vietnam because of our location. For example, Vietnam is surrounded by lots of water and our land's soil is excellent and is very to predict when rain is going to fall or not.

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They were phasing out during this time; by the end of the war (1975) they were all mostly over the age of 30 and/or moving on...as they say.

Saigon, the capital of the Republic of South Vietnam was taken over by communism of North Vietnam. More than half a million of Vietnamese people have left the country by boats or by anything that is possible. More than 10 thousand Vietnamese boat people were lost at sea or died. Others became slaves under the hand of pirates. Thousands of Vietnamese civilians in Vietnam were under the hand of Viet Cong government and other became of slaves of communism in communist prisons. After the Vietnam war, Saigon was re-named Ho Chi Minh City.

In the actual Cold War, America and the USSR never actually confronted each other militarily. In the Iraq war, some Mid East experts suggest, this became a battleground for two dominant powers in the region: Iran and Saudi Arabia.

While Iran funded Shia insurgents, the Saudis funded al Qaeda.

The force or forces used to deny hostile intelligence forces the opportunity to gain information about your plans and operations.

the north Vietnamese fire at a us battle ship causing America to get angry getting the government to allow the president to help south Vietnam.

No, there is not. The Purple Heart is one of the most common awards and has been received by over 800,000 individuals.

No, at least not from the Vietnam era or prior.

This answer is inaccurate and does a poor job answering the question. The purple heart is one of the more uncommon awards in the military. There has been hundreds of millions of service members since the creation of the award. The number of Purple hearts awarded is estimated to be closer to 1.6 million. Purple heart recipients make up less then 1 percent of all service members to ever serve. There is no complete list but the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor has a list of over 70,000 recipient's.

Conventional warfare, although Iraq did use chemical warfare against the Iranians during the war (1980-1988). The individual responsible for it, may have just recently been hanged.

The Christmas bombing was From Dec. 18 until Dec. 30 in 1972 in the Vietnam war. The United States conducted a campaign of intensive aerial bombing, using massive B-52s, over North Vietnam. President Richard Nixon unleashed the bombing to make the South and North Vietnamese sit down at the bargaining table to negotiate the end of the Vietnam War.

The dense jungles that encompass most of Vietnam inhibits the mobility of a mechanized force like that of America and the South Vietnamese. They were forced to fight literally in the Vietcong's backyard, which of course was well known by its defenders. Also, the use of ambush and guerrilla tactics are amplified in this terrain, enabling concealment and ease of mobility on foot.

Just another form of munitions. Fire bombs have been used since ancient times, they are NOT new. One of the most famous cases of fire weapons being used was the bombing of Dresden, which was firebombed during WWII.

Because they where protesting for their troops so they won't lose sooooooo many lives anyway they where already losing y make it worse.


(if this is for homework please put it in your own words cuz teachers will catch u trust me i no)

woman, usually wives of soldiers or woman who just wanted to serve their counry

it would have ended soon just not the way we planned. It probably would have been a disaster but who really knows the answer to that queston? It isn't something we always think about or ask ourselves.

The best way to describe it, is to picture yourself camping in the forest (park, hiking area, anyplace primitive with no luxuries (NO toilets, showers, stores, gas stations, NOTHING) for a year. Wear the same clothes for one month at a time, cleaning them only in the river or creek or a hole in the ground (bomb craters were used in Vietnam) whenever time allowed. Eat out of cans, and no fires nor cooking at night (eat your food cold) for at least 300 days. Either sleep in a camper (equating to an M113 APC/ACAV) or a jeep/pick-up truck (equating to a M48 Patton or M551 Sheridan tank), or sleep on the ground with NO TENT, a lean to would be acceptable though. Do that for about 300 days.

Now your in "Nam country."

That's well over 2 1/2 million names. Over 3 million names, if counting the men that served in nearby Thailand and bordering nations during the war (Thailand was one of the homes for the B-52 Bombers). Suggest starting by contacting the VVA (Vietnam Veterans of America); possibly they might be able to help.

56000

Ho Chi Minh

Australian society mirrored American society after the war, on a smaller scale, due to population differences.

Lyndon Johnson

1 Ngô Đình Diệm 26 October 1955 2 November 1963 Can Lao Party Died in coup d'état

2 Dương Văn Minh, 1st time 2 November 1963 30 January 1964 Military chairman, Military Revolutionary Council

3 Nguyễn Khánh, 1st time 30 January 1964 8 February 1964 Military None

4 Dương Văn Minh, 2nd time 8 February 1964 16 March 1964 Military None

5 Nguyễn Khánh, 2nd time 16 March 1964 27 August 1964 Military None

6 Provisional Leadership Committee 27 August 1964 8 September 1964 Military Committee: Duong Van Minh, Nguyen Khanh

and Tran Thien Khiem

7 Dương Văn Minh, 3rd time 8 September 1964 26 October 1964 Military chairman, Provisional Leadership Committee

8 Phan Khắc Sửu 26 October 1964 14 June 1965 Civilian appointed by military None

9 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu 14 June 1965 21 April 1975 Military; National Social Democratic Front (1968- ) Election: 1967 and

1971.

North Vietnam launched an invasion of South Vietnam.
North Vietnam launched an invasion of south Vietnam.

The Tet Offensive (1968) was a military failure for the NVA, but a political success for North Vietnam. The reason is because up to the Tet Offensive, the US Presidential Administration had been proclaiming that the Communists were weak, under-supplied, disorganized, and low in morale. The Tet Offensive completely proved them wrong, you have a near-simultaneous uprising against US and South Vietnamese targets (military barracks, airfields, administration units, even the US embassy in Saigon was overrun and in North Vietnamese hands for a few hours).

While all the NVA/Viet Cong attackers in each case were eventually killed, taken prisoner, or driven off, the incident shook not only the credibility of the US Administration, but also proved to the world that the NVA and Viet Cong still had lots of fight left. Two years later, the Nixon administration decided to start the gradual withdrawal of American troops, eventually the South Vietnamese ARVN (Army, Republic of Vietnam) was unable to withstand the onslaught of NVA and Viet Cong attacks. The war ended in April 1975 with the NVA marching into Saigon and the last helicopter lifting off the roof of the American Embassy.

In many sources, it is just called " Nixon's Secret Plan to End the Vietnam War". A more formal name was Vietnamization. Nixon wanted to transfer all military responsibilities to South Vietnam so the US could withdraw its troops.

There were TWO Chinas during the war; Red China and Taiwan (Nationalist China). The VC lived in Southern Vietnam. Red China supplied war equipment to North Vietnam, the small arms portions were filtered down the Ho Chi Minh trail into South Vietnam to supply the VC. Weapons/equipment supplied by Red China were called CHICOM equipment (Chinese Commuist). The local VC received primarily AKs or SKS's. North Vietnam received MiG19 jet fighters (J6 versions) from Communist China. North Vietnamese jet fighter pilots were trained in the Soviet Union (MIG17/MIG21 jets) and North Vietnamese jet fighter pilots were trained in Red China for the MIG19.