Descriptive Essay On Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a long hard fought war. There was two sides of the war, North Vietnam vs. South Vietnam and America. The war was to stop the takeover of communism. America didn 't want this to happen so they stepped in to stop it. Other countries were also involved in Vietnam they were Japan and France. Those countries were what started the hostility in Vietnam. This led to a long battle with great cost and the use of tactics.

The Vietnam War lasted from 1954 all the way to 1973. Many people were killed from both sides. On the North Vietnamese side anywhere from 400,000 thousand to one million died in the war. On the Americans side only 58,000 thousand died. Not nearly as much as the North Vietnamese. The North was trying to take over the South as you know already. The only reason America jumped in on the South Vietnamese side was to stop the uprising of communism. The Americans were scared of the Domino Theory. The Domino Theory is a theory where one falls others will fall to it and America didn 't want this to happen. If America didn 't stop the North from evading the

The North Vietnamese troops used the jungle to hide from the American troops. The Americans came up with a plan called Operation Rolling Thunder. “ Operation Rolling Thunder begins over 100 American fighter-bombers attack targets in North Vietnam. Scheduled to last eight weeks, Rolling Thunder will instead go on for three years.” (“"The History Place - Vietnam War 1965-1968” ) In 1965 the Viet Cong terrorist bombed the US embassy in Saigon to weaken their government in the country. The North Vietnamese troops used tunnels or caves to get to places to fight quicker or defend. The Americans dropped napalm to burn the jungle the North was hiding in and kill them. They also dropped napalm on the North 's food to starve them. Guerilla Warfare was used by the North it was one of there best tactics to