Vietnam War Research Paper

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The Vietnam war was a conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam. During the Vietnam war the conflict and fighting had intensified because of the ongoing cold war between the soviet union and the united states. The total of deaths during that time was major more than 3 million including the 58,000 American soldiers that were killed during the Vietnam war, more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. The war had brought opposition to the war in the United States between all Americans even after President Richard Nixon had ordered the withdrawal of the U.S. forces in 1973. The communist forces had ended the war by taking control of south Vietnam in 1975 the country was unified a year later as a Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Vietnam is a nation in southeast asia it is on the eastern edge of the Indochinese peninsula it had been under french colony since the 19th century. The Vietnam war started in 1954 but there conflict had stretched back several decades. After the communist forces had taken power in the north, armed conflict began between northern and southern armies it had continued until a prescient battle at Dien Bien Phu that ended in a victory for northern Viet minh forces. The french loss at …show more content…

Every member of the Viet cong were highly trained in the tactical war art of guerilla warfare. Guerilla warfare is an irregular form of warfare that usually has enlisted a small use of combatants such as armed civilians, paramilitary, or irregulars. There use military tactics such as ambushes sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit and run tactics and mobility. They use these type of tactics because they are a smaller style type of military that takes on a bigger enemy like the Viet cong used on the United states soldiers in Vietnam. Guerrilla is a spanish word diminutive form of Guerra means

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