Vietnam War Research Paper

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The Vietnam war is such a controversial topic in America’s history. Some veterans that served in the war won’t even talk about it still to this day. The Vietnam war was a war that started in 1954, and lasted for about 20 years until 1975. America decided to join this war because they did not like the spread of communism and wanted to stop it at all cost. During this war, America had 4 different Presidents, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Many people believe that the United States should have gotten involved in the war, while other people believe that the United States should not have involved themselves in the war. The three topics this essay will discuss are the problems that the United States created in Vietnam and also the …show more content…

In one of the pictures we looked at, it portrayed a group of American troops carrying a body through a swamp in the jungle. The Americans look scared and frightened to be there and looked like they were not equipped to be fighting in this war because of the jungle conditions, and the hidden booby traps. If one of your kids was fighting in this war would you be happy to see them like this, not knowing if they were going to die in the jungle? Another piece of evidence we looked at was a video of when the Americans dropped the napalm bomb on South Vietnam. Napalm is a flammable substance that burns anything it touches immediately. In the video we watched a village of innocent people being burned to death because of this substance that we, Americans had dropped on their country. Can you even imagine the pain, suffering, and hardships that the people of South Vietnam had to face. The South Vietnamese survivors still deal with emotional and physical issues today. Last but not least, we looked at a video of Operation Rolling Thunder. This operation was negative towards the war because when the United States dropped a ton of bombs on North Vietnam, it left many Vietnamese people homeless and many innocent people

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