Vietnam War

The communist North Vietnam or PAVN and their allies vs. the Republic South Vietnam with America and their allies

Diem and Thieu.

10102 men are still traped in the U.S.S Arizona

Doves opposed the Vietnam War primarily on moral and humanitarian grounds, arguing that it caused unnecessary suffering and loss of life for both Vietnamese civilians and American soldiers. They contended that the war was a misguided effort to contain communism and that diplomatic solutions should be prioritized over military intervention. Additionally, doves highlighted the negative social and economic impacts of the war on American society, advocating for a shift in focus towards civil rights and domestic issues.

Ho Chi Minh went to school in Britain and Russia.

That's how President Johnson (LBJ) used to pronounce it. Vietnam is a communist country located in southeast Asia (SEA) on the southeast tip of the Eurasian Continent.

During the war; it was two countries: North & South Vietnam.

US conventional forces arrived in country.

Between 618,000 and 700,000 Americans died in the Civil War, The number most quoted is 620,000.

This number exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.

The Union armies loses are esimated at * Battle deaths: 110,070

* Disease, etc.: 250,152

* Total 360,222

The Confederate Armys losses are estimated at * Battle deaths: '''94,000

* Disease, etc.: '''164,000 * Total '''258,000

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1. Nixon's invasion (incursion) of Cambodia.

2. Protesters THROWING rocks and bricks at soldiers (Ohio Army Guardsmen).

Explanation:

1. Without the invasion into Cambodia, there would've been NO protest (at that particular time and date anyway).

2. Rocks can kill; those are missiles, just like a bullet. Deadly force is justified anytime someone's life is threatened. There was NO excuse for protesters to hurl bricks, rocks, or stones (or anything that can cause injury) at another human being.

Other than the nations that were swallowed up by the steam-rolling Soviet war machine during their advance thru Europe and Asia against the Axis powers in 1945; and the Red Chinese revolution of 1949; and possibly some covert third world nations (Cuba, Laos, etc.) that were not strategically important enough for the US to go to war over...the US sponsored REPUBLIC of South Vietnam was the only one.

The Cold War began as World War II was ending. American leaders saw the power and ambitions of the Soviet Union as a threat to our national security. The Cold War was a war of words and ideologies rather than a shooting war, although at times the Cold War turned “hot” as in Korea and Vietnam. Basically, the Cold War was a rivalry between the United States as leader of the western democracies, and the Soviet Union and the nations that were controlled by the communists. Some causes of the Cold War included: Attempts by the Soviets and Chinese Communists to influence and take over areas in Asia and Europe. Containment--the policy of the United States to stop communism from spreading to other areas of the world. The Truman Doctrine--a policy of supporting anti-communist regimes with military and economic aid. The Doctrine was first used in support of democratic governments in Greece and Turkey. The Marshall Plan--a massive plan to aid in rebuilding Europe after World War II. Western allied nations, as well as neutral nations, and even the Soviet Union were offered economic assistance. The Soviet Union saw this as a threat to their attempt to gain influence in Europe and Asia. The division of Germany after the war---The Soviets blockaded West Berlin, which was deep within Communist East Germany. The Soviets thought the blockade would allow them to take over all of Berlin. The US replied with the Berlin Airlift, to supply West Berlin. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 by the US, Canada, and nine European nations, the first peacetime military alliance in US History. The NATO nations agreed that an attack on one would be an attack on all. The Soviets replied with the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe. September, 1949, the Soviet Union tested its first Atomic Bomb. The Cold War continued through the decades of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Religious organisations such as Christian Peacemaker Terms partake in peaceful protests in areas of conflict. They use non-violent methods like diplomatic marches in order to get their point across without the need for aggression or violence.

Much as the Pearl Harbor Attack (December 1941) relied on the element of surprise, the Tet Offensive was the culmination of North Vietnam massing its ground forces along the border for an assault into South Vietnam. US intelligence were notified of this impending assault by North Vietnam weeks before the attack, but military planners dismissed the report as a hoax. The final days before the attack, American forces on reconnaissance patrol reported sightings of fresh tracks left by heavy tanks, yet there were no reports of American tanks in the area. Subordinate officers who took these reports dismissed them as another hoax by US soldiers suffering from the aftermath of recreational use of hallucinogens. The officer's exact reply to recon patrol's radio report was "What have you been smoking soldier?" Mishandling of intelligence information resulted in the success of the Tet Offensive.

Lyndon Johnson did not run for a third term largely because of opposition to the Vietnam War from his own party as well as outside.

What war? The United States of America is not at war with any nation on earth. The US is (or was) hunting terrorists in Afghanistan since 2001. The US toppled Saddam H. from Iraq in 2003.

The establishing of law, order, and stability has been an ongoing problem in Iraq since 2003. If Iraq cannot control (police) it's own nation...who can?

The US police's it's country. Britain police's it's country. France police's it country. Russia, China, Iceland, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Jordan, Isreal, etc. etc. etc. all police their own nations. Certainly Iraq can probably police it's own country too.

In 1973 a cease-fire was signed between these two nations. However, due to the American army's full leave, Vietnam did not take the pact seriously.

58,267 names are arranged chronologically in order of the date of casualty.

In 1989, Burma officially became known as Myanmar (Union of Myanmar).

Northeast would be the former North Vietnam. N/W would be Thailand.

Media criticism of the war and antiwar activism in America. Restrictions placed by civilian politicians on the military's operations or, conversely, blamed U.S. military chiefs for not providing civilian laders with a sound strategy for victory. U.S. leaders underestimated the tenacity of the enemy. * NOTE: This is by Viet Nam Generations, Inc. and the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virgina at Charlottesville. These are notes from American soldiers that served and this meeting took place in Detroit: They talk about the horrors they began to inflict on the enemies and the people of the villages. Fear and staying alive numbed the brain to what the public could not or did not want to understand. South Vietnam had nothing that realistically threatened the U.S and to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, it to use the height of criminal hypocrisy we we feel has torn this country apart. We found that all too often American men were dying in those rice paddies for want of support from their allies. How monies from American taxes were used for a corrupt dictatorial regime. We saw that many people in this country had a one-sided idea of who was kept free by the flag, and blacks provided the highest percentage of casualties. We watched the U.S. FALSIFICATION OF BODY COUNTS, in fact, the glorification of body counts. We listened while month after month we were told the back of the enemy was about to break. We watched while men charged up hills because a general said that hill has to be take, AND AFTER LOSING ONE PLATTON OR 2 THEY MARCHED AWAY TO LEAVE THE HILL FOR REOCCUPATION BY THE NORTH VIETNAMESE. We couldn't lose, and we couldn't retreat, and because it didn't matter how many American bodies were lost to prove that point, and so there were Hamburger Hills and Khe Sanhs and Hill 81s and Fire Base 6s, etc. Each day to facilitate the process by which the U.S. washes her hands of Vietnam someone has to give up his life so that the U.S. doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows WE MADE A MISTAKE! Someone had to die so that Pres. Nixon won't be, and these are his words, "the 1st President to lose a war." We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam .... over a mistake? We asked ... where are the leaders of our country? We're here to ask where are McNamara, Rostow, Bundy, Gilpatrick and so many others? Where are they now that we, the men they sent off to war, have returned? These are the commanders who have deserted their troops. And there is no more serious crime in the laws of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The marines say they never even leave their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind pious shielf of public rectitude. They've left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country ..." Go on any site and talk to Vietnam soldiers who will give you the real reasons why they retreated, body counts of men who died for their country and the REAL battles they won and DID NOT win. The social change from the war changed social lives so everyone began to have sexual intercourse with eachothers wives. MANY PEOPLE lost their lives. yah so there take that lol

Richmond, Virgina. However when the Confederacy was first created, Montgomery, Alabama, became the capitol on February 4th, 1861. However, Virginia Joined the Confederacy, and the capitol was moved to Richmond on May 23rd, 1861 by provisional Confederate President Jefferson Davis, where it remained until it came under Federal control, at which point the Confederate government relocated to Danville, VA in 1865 under pressure of the encroaching Northern army.

Guerrilla war in South Vietnam '55; conventional war with North Vietnam '64.

In honor of those who faught in the Vietnam war, a total of 351,794 purple hearts. Originally, 500,00 purple hearts were created, but only 351,794 were given out.