Withdrawal of American Troops From Vietnam
In 1939 Vietnam was part of an area called Indo-China. This area was
ruled by the French It was an area part of the French Empire with a
population of 25 million, 20 million of which where in Vietnam.
By 1940 Indo China was being ruled by the Japanese. Even though Indo
China was ruled by Japan the French were still allowed to run the
country, on the condition that the Japanese could take all the
resources they wanted from indo china when they wanted. The result of
this was that the Vietnamese started to starve. In 1945 alone one and
a half million Vietnamese staved to death. This lead to the Vietnamese
resisting.
The Vietnamese organised a resistance group known as the Vietminh. The
Vietminh was essentially a nationalist group. Their aim was to free
Vietnam from foreign domination; the French and Japanese. The leader
of this group was Ho Chi Minh. Though the leader was communist the
Vietminh was open to anyone.
To start with at this time the Vietminh had the support of the USA, as
at the time the USA were also involved in world war two and were
currently also fighting Japan. By the end of 1944 the USA had equipped
and trained the Vietminh start guerrilla operations against the
Japanese and the French.
In 1945 America launched two atom bombs on Hiroshima in Japan and as a
result of this Japan was forced to withdraw its armies from south east
Asia including Vietnam and surrender.
In December 1945 ho chi minh took over running Vietnam but also in
December 1945 the French returned to Vietnam and the French and
Vietnamese began a war for control.
Things started to ...
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...about to give in or back down. More negotiations then
took place and on the 23rd of January 1973 an agreement was reached.
The America troops would withdraw from North Vietnam, but the 2 sides,
north and south would stay separate.
Nixon becoming president was the start of the end of the war in
Vietnam, and why the troops actually did withdraw in 1973.
If it wasn't for the media the protesters and Diem, Nixon wouldn't
have been elected. Nixon wasn't really the reason for the withdrawal
of the troops, all these things before led to him having to withdraw
them to end the war. In my opinion Diem was the main cause as to why
the troops in 1973 from America had to withdraw from Vietnam. If when
Diem was elected he had done a better job and got the South Vietnamese
support then there may not have been a war to start with.
When Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh and his political organization, the Vietminh, seized control of their independence from France United States Politicians saw it as another communist take over. When really Ho was more a nationalist than a communist. All Minh wanted was for the United States to recognize its independence from France and to send aid to help it reach its nationalistic goals. "Before the Cold War Ho and the Vietmin...
In conclusion, I think that the United States became increasingly involved in the Vietnamese War because of the policies they had made as a promise to fight communism, and because they had sorely underestimated Vietcong’s ability to fight back using Guerrilla warfare. They refused to pull out of the war in fear of losing face before the world, but this pride factor scored them massive losses in the war. In the end, with both side sustaining heavy losses, the US were still seen as mutilators in the war, with advanced showing what their intervention had costed, and Vietnam was still fully taken over by Communism – they had achieved nothing and lost a lot.
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its height of absolute power and then was destroyed by the French Revolution. The reigns
After returning, Minh had help from the Vietminh; an organization of communist that wanted freedom from other countries. Their main goal was to turn Vietnam into a self-governed communist country. France wanted none of this non-sense. In 1945 they had moved back into southern Vietnam and ruled most of the cities. Ho Chi Minh swore to fight France to gain control of the whole country. U.S. promised to aid France, and sent almost $15 million worth of financial aid to France. The French fought for four years, being financially aided by the U.S. the whole time. The U.S. spent nearly one billion dollars in order to help France regain control of the tiny country. The only reason that much effort was put into a small area was the fear of the y. Domino Theory. The Domino Theory first showed it's head during a 1954 news conference by U.S. President Eisenhower. The domino theory is the fear of the spread of communism from one country to the next, and so on. Even with the assistance of the U.S. France could not gain the control it once had on Vietnam.
advance for the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong, but also gave the United States a
The French were forced out of Vietnam and Vietnam was divided between communists and anti-communists. The communist regime controlled North Vietnam. Those that supported the French and were against communism controlled South Vietnam. Then trained Communist supporters from the North, the Vietcong, started coming to the South. America decided that they wanted to stop the spread of communism by stopping communism in Vietnam. The United States believed in the Domino Theory. The Domino Theory is the theory that communism will continue to spread around the world unless it is stopped. America sent soldiers over to Vietnam to help the South fight against the North. Then American ships were supposedly attacked of the coast of Vietnam. This is when the United States officially entered the war.
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The U.S. Public Opinion as a Major Factor in the Withdrawal of American Troops from Vietnam
After World War II, the French began a fight for their former colony of Indochina, which included Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The French and other countries failed to see at that time the will and desire of the Vietnamese people to gain independence from foreign rule and to have their country unified. Ho Chi Minh, a Vietnamese nationalist, fought the French and overtook the North Vietnam capital of Hanoi with his followers, the Viet Minh, declaring the area the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. (Anderson, 2002) The French were unwilling to give up their colony and drove the Vietminh from many of the larger cities in the south. The United States entered the Vietnam struggle in 1950 when $15 million in aid was pledged to France in order to fight the Vietminh. (Anderson, 2002) The rationale was to align with France and keep the Soviet Union from expanding in Europe and to keep another country from falling into communist rule.
In the early 1960s the U.S. began sending military advisors to South Vietnam beginning the Vietnam War, arguably the most controversial war in United States history. This incident followed Vietnam gaining its independence from the French Empire’s Indochina in 1954. The nation soon split, creating a communist North Vietnam, and a noncommunist South Vietnam. In fear of communism spreading the U.S. supported South Vietnam and sent troops. As the incident dragged on it caused a huge anti-war movement and a lot of political turmoil.The troops were withdrawn in 1973, the whole country fell to communism, and the U.S. failed. How did a superpower such as the U.S. take defeat from a small country like Vietnam? Many have wondered and continue to wonder
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The conflict in Vietnam for the United States started when President Dwight D. Eisenhower went along with the domino theory and sent in military advisors in South Vietnam to stop the communist movement from taking place in South Vietnam. The Vietnam conflict was between the communist’s and the United States. North Vietnam was led by Ho Chi Minh, and Ho Chi Minh led the Viet Cong, a guerilla group to help spread communism. The United States were supporters of the South Vietnam because they wanted them to maintain their government rather than falling to the domino theory of communism. After Eisenhower’s term ended, John F. Kennedy became president and took control of the situation in Vietnam.
a huge deficit in soldiers and caused the war to come to a stand still for five years (Lace 41).
North Vietnam came under the control of the Vietnamese Communists who had opposed France and aimed for a unified Vietnam under Communist rule. Vietnamese who had collaborated with the French controlled the South. For this reason the United States became involved in Vietnam because it believed that if all of the country fell under a Communist government, Communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia and further. This belief is known as the domino theory. The decision to enter Vietnam reflected Americas idea of its global role - the U.S. could not recoil from world leadership.