War is a huge event in any country’s history. The United States has been experiencing this since the first major war with the American Revolutionary. The United States has been known to help out our allies when they are fighting, and intervened when countries have been at war to try and end it. The Vietnam War started in December of 1954 and ended on April 30th of 1975. The Vietnam War was a long and costly battle over communism between North and South Vietnam. The Vietnam War was a failed attempt for the United States to bring peace to South and North Vietnam because it affected our country’s history, the way politics can influence a war, an economy downfall, and how affected protest and media can be used. The United States never officially …show more content…
The Vietnam War was becoming a hot topic in Washington. The war in Vietnam was planned, financed, equipped, and fought under the direction of the Washington government (Nearing, 2013). Politics today have changed a lot in the fifty years since the Vietnam War began. An article on JFK’s vision of peace written by his nephew said, Vietnam as a continuum beginning under Eisenhower and steadily escalating through the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations (Kennedy Jr, 2013). But I wonder how the republican and democratic parties felt about the Vietnam War and the actions of their presidents. Eisenhower and Nixon were republicans, and Kennedy and Johnson were democratic. Vietnam did not become a major issue for the Republicans during the Kennedy administration because they preferred to focus on the president’s perceived failures in Cuba, Berlin, and Laos. Nor did all Republicans criticize Johnson’s handling of the war (Young, 2012). Johnson become the president after Kennedy’s assassination. President Johnson was hoping to not have the U.S. to win the war, but for the U.S troops to strengthen the South Vietnam’s forcers. According to Histoy.com, Johnson’s legacy was equally defined by his failure to lead the nation out of the quagmire of the Vietnam War (2009). With Johnson’s being unsuccessful and unpopular after his involvement with the war he decided to not run for president again. The …show more content…
The Vietnam War caused a few issues for the U.S. economy. According to History.com, the nation spent more than $120 billion on the conflict in Vietnam from 1965-73 (2009). Factories were producing goods that were going to the military to cater for their needs, and not the public. This caused problems because the government was sending funds overseas which caused an imbalance in the economy. The dollar value weakened, interest rates rose, and inflation became a problem. Citizens were angry for the way the government was handing the economic policies during the Vietnam War. According to Historycentral.com, despite the success of many Kennedy and Johnson economic policies, the Vietnam War was an important factor in bringing down the American economy from the growth and affluence of the early 1960s to the economic crises of the 1970s (2014). The Vietnam War had a lot of negative effects on the American economy, and is probably why we have issues with the national debt to this
The war was also known as the American War (in Vietnam, as opposed to the Vietnam War in America), the Vietnam Conflict, the Second Indochina War, and also the War Against the Americans to Save the Nation (The History of the Vietnam War). It started on November 1, 1955 and ended on April 30, 1975 (At a Glance June 2012). The main conflict that started the war was the aspiration of North Vietnam to unify the entire country under a single communist government that was modeled after the ones seen in the Soviet Union (now Russia) and China (Vietnam War |
The Vietnam War took place in between 1947- 1975. It consisted of North Vietnam trying to make South Vietnam a communism government. The United States later joined this conflict because of the stress North Vietnam was putting to South Vietnam to become a government that America did not want. The main reason why America joined was because of a theory called the Domino Effect. America and Russia were going through what has been dubbed the Cold War. The Domino Effect is the theory that communism will spread form one country to another. United states does not want this because our government is a democracy and communism opposes everything we stand for. America fearing communism was growing, stepped into Vietnam with America’s interest in mind, instead of Vietnam’s. There are several reason why American should have not gotten involved with this war. The most important reason was that America government officials made to much of a big deal about communism. This might sound cynical, but America to a certain degree did over react. Let it be said that it is much easier to say this after the fact. By looking back at McCarthyism, we can see the silliness of this fear. There is a serious side though. Thousands of people dies for a government that has no impact of their daily life. What regime Vietnam was going to change over to had no effect on the every day cycle of the United States. So truly, one can say, this can not one thing to do with America, its government and people.
The Vietnam War lasted from the winter of 1956 to the spring of 1975. The Vietnam War was a domesticated civil war between the communist, North Vietnam, and the democratic, South Vietnam. The North was supported by the Chinese communist, and the leader Ho Chi Minh. The Vietnam War introduced the United States to the Vietcong and Guerrilla warfare. During this time, the United States faced our own battles at home between two social groups called the Doves and the Hawks. This war was very divisive. The Doves protested and Hawks shunned them. Young men without money were being drafted while others went to college, got a medical note, or fled the country. Tensions were already high in the United States when Congress passed Public Law 88- 408, also known as the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
War is inevitable in any country, it has transpired in our past, in our present, and will continue to transpire in our future. Being a country, the United States has been involved in many wars that including the Vietnam War. The Vietnam war began in the 1960’s and lasted about 15 years. There are many questions to be asked about this war such as, why did we get involved in the war in the first place, what impact did this war have on American society, and what was the impact on our foreign policy due to this war?
The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial wars the United States has ever encountered. During the mid 50’s, communism was dominant in Asia and was greatly expanding to Vietnam. There was no peaceful way to come up with a compromise between North and South Vietnam that would negotiate how Vietnam should be governed and thus they resolved to warfare. The United States knew that the expansion of communism was a worldwide issue and becoming a international source of power. They feared that communism would spread to every other country in that region and eventually overpower the United States. Therefore, the US government decided to help in the war with the south vietnamese who was democratic and fight against the communist north.
The Vietnam war was taken place mostly in Vietnam, eastern part of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. The Vietnam war was a long conflict that the communist hated and the southern allies, viet cong, and the its ally the United States. The war was worth millions of lives which most of them were Vietnamese civilians. We can because of need president Harry Truman sent around $160 million for aid to the Trench warfare. He also sent the Military Assistance Advisory Group or MAAG to help assist them there. Many of these conflicts were affecting the Domino theory espicslly the war in general. The Domino theory is if a country became communist if would soon start spreading it like a Domino when fallen. Because of this threat of communism in the air the United
The Vietnam War was a long and severe war that ended in defeat. Not only for America but for all the people lives were ruined. The soldiers who lost their lives to President Johnson who lost all hope. America suffered internally economically for a war that never made progress in favor of an anticommunist revolution. Each President struggled to put an end to the communistic movement in Southern Asia to dissolve the spread from country to country. After three presidents tried to solve this problem Nixon finally had the plan that would put in to movement that the United States did not need to the the World Police but rather a supporter to other countries. This is a serious idea that today many people in America have forgotten, especially the lesson of the war in Vietnam.
The longest war in the history of the United States took place in Vietnam during the Cold War. The United States involvement in the Vietnam War started when the Vietnamese were fighting the French for independence. Prior to U.S. involvement, France had attempted to govern Vietnam as one of its own colonies, but after years of being at war with the rebels and communists, France could not take anymore. The United States feared of the spread of communism and saw themselves as a democratic super power, and therefore, they felt morally obligated to stand up and fight against communism in place of France. Vietnam was later split into North and South Vietnam at the Geneva Conference which was originally designed to end the French/Vietnam war. Northern Vietnam was run by communists and supported by China and Russia. Southern Vietnam was then solely supported by the United States.
The Vietnam War (1954-1975) was, and continues to be, a contentious issue around the world. Many analysts of the war attribute it to Lyndon B. Johnson, who was president of America from 1963 until 1969, because under his administration, the American Army became involved in combat in Vietnam. Although there were many facets that lead Johnson to make his decision and there were three other presidents, in power during the course of America’s involvement in Vietnam, who also played key roles, it was Johnson who made the decision to escalate US intervention in Vietnam.
Tension was building up in America because of political, economical, and social problems and events during the Vietnam War. To most people now and then see that Vietnam was a war that was not winnable. Also that the draft was unfair and we should not have sent those young men to dying for a belief. Tension in these event were the direct result of the Anti-War movement and protests in America. We look back at the War and see all the mistakes from it and hopefully we have learned from those and we will never have to be in the same boat as they were.
The Vietnam War started in 1954 and slashed its way through the 1960’s, finally ending in 1975. This war caused over 3 million deaths, and more than half were Vietnamese locals. Over 2.5 million Americans served in the Vietnam war, and nearly 50,000 military personnel were killed in action. The Vietnam War is still America's second longest war, right behind the war in Afghanistan, lasting an astounding 19 and a half years. The war was neither a win or lose for the U.S. The U.S. instead pulled out of Vietnam due to too many casualties. Over all, South Vietnam was left cold when the U.S. failed to defend against the North.
The Vietnam War was an event that occurred between 1974 and 1975. The United States became involved in the Vietnam War because they wanted to help their ally, then South Vietnam, to help them prevent North Vietnam, which was Communist, take over. However, it was a loss for the United States, and North Vietnam took over South Vietnam to make it a Communist nation. Many citizens did not support the Vietnam War. Haug remembers that people were very negative when it came to discussing the Vietnam War. Several reasons that citizens were not in support of it is due to the fact that the United States should not have spent the money on the war, since the Korean War led up to it, and one other reason is
The Vietnam War was the first major war American’s had suffered defeat. The Vietnam war was a war of confusion, competition and biasness. The outcome of the war was far greater than an upset American nation, but a severe breakdown of the Vietnamese culture, economy, environment and government. It also had a tremendous impact on American society even up to present day. It was unclear from the beginning of the war if the American’s should even be involved. It was a war between Northern and Southern Vietnam but the U.S saw it as an indirect way to challenge the USSR’s sphere of influence in Southern Asia and to prevent the domino effect and the further spread of communism. The Vietnam War completely changed the way the United States approached military action and helped establish the role of the United States within the new world order.
Vietnam was a struggle which, in all honesty, the United States should never have been involved in. North Vietnam was battling for ownership of South Vietnam, so that they would be a unified communist nation. To prevent the domino effect and the further spread of communism, the U.S. held on to the Truman Doctrine and stood behind the South Vietnamese leader, Diem.
The Vietnam War was a war between the Capitalist United States and the Communist North Vietnamese army. This war started in 1964 and it ended in 1975, when the US withdrew its soldiers. The US joined the war to stop the spreading of Communism, because they didn't want Russia to gain more allies, as they had been in a cold war with them for years.