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.
In my opinion, an event is significant if it is still remembered today, meaning that it is used in films, written about in books, and when people watch these films or read books, it could raise issues in their mind which also makes an event significant. If it was really important at the time, like all the soldiers died, which was only important to the US and Vietnam at the time but as for the entire country in the long term it was not important. Significance is more than just how important an event is. It describes the impact of the event on other countries involved as well as the world as a whole. In my essay I will explain how far I agree with the statement, by looking at the ways the Vietnam War was significant in both the long and short term.
A lot of people believe that the Vietnam War was mostly significant in the short term, it had an impact and effects on a number of different people in many countries.
In the USA for example, 58,000 US soldiers died in the Vietnam War and about 300,000 were injured. In the short term this meant that people had their families broken up and that some of the returning soldiers with serious injuries could no longer serve in the army or work. This may not have been the case for ever but certainly affected their lives in the years immediately after the war. While this certainly had an impact in the short term, I do not think it was significa...
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...hat some of the families were broken up and also that some of the returning soldiers who were seriously injured so they couldnt work which meant that they had no money and perhaps ended up on the street and became homeless. In Vietnam 4 million people died and also a lot of people left the country so they wouldnt get killed by US soldiers. This meant that the country had a decrease of income and population. This is significant in the short term for the country as a lot of farmers were killed which led to people being short on food and some starved to death. The war had an impact on the long term but that alone does not make it significant. I think although it is remembered in the USA, this is mostly due to the fact that the country is at war again now and people compare it to Vietnam rather than the fact the war is still a significant part of peoples lives today.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the vietnam war was a war between the capitalist united states and the communist north vietnamese army.
- Opines that an event is significant if it is still remembered today, meaning that it could raise issues in their mind. significance describes the impact of the event on other countries involved and the world as a whole.
- Opines that the vietnam war was significant in the short term and had an impact on a number of different people in many countries.
- Explains that 58,000 us soldiers died in the vietnam war and about 300,000 were injured. in the short term this meant that people had their families broken up and some of the returning soldiers with serious injuries could no longer serve.
- Analyzes how the anti-war protests in washington and the white house had a huge impact in the short term as the government and president didn't want to be unpopular.
- Opines that the war with vietnam cost the us about 130 billion dollars. this money was taken from tax payers who worked hard for their money but then taken away for a war that most people didn't want to be involved in.
- Opines that 4 million people died during the war, including civilians, which affected vietnam massively in the short term as a lot of farmers had been killed and vietnam was short on food and other resources.
- Analyzes how vietnam lost a lot of money because of the destruction of crops and farmland. the north vietnamese prime minister's speech proves that the war was significant in the short term.
- Analyzes how the us used napalm and other weapons on vietnam, which destroyed cities, villages, forests, hospitals, and schools, causing millions of dollars of damage.
- Explains that the usa left vietnam in a mess when they left, which meant that they couldn't defend themselves from invaders like cambodia and china.
- Analyzes how the vietnam war had a lot of impact on the world. it caused the us to be unpopular and lose support for their government.
- Opines that the vietnam war was significant in the us because they still make films and songs about the war and talk about it, even though it's hardly anything compared to the 4 million dead soldiers of vietnam.
- Analyzes how the vietnam war had a negative impact on the usa in the long term as they realized that they were no longer an unbeatable military force.
- Explains that the vietnam war was significant in the long term in vietnam. the us used weapons like napalm and agent orange during the war which destroyed crop fields and jungles.
- Opines that the vietnam war had a little significance to the world in the long term.
- Opines that the vietnam war was not significant in the long term. the war was significant to the usa as a lot of their soldiers died or got injured.
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- Cites erickson, j. david. "testimony on birth defects among vietnam veterans' children." medical. april 16, 1997: 1 page.
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- Explains that the charges were that an american line company had swept through this village and that there were a great, great number of inhabitants who were murdered or massacred or killed, whatever, without provocation.
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- Explains that the vietnam war was the most televised war in u.s history, showing the atrocities of the kill zone. civil rights leaders such as martin luther king jr. expressed their feelings through speeches to the public.
- Explains that the cold war was a competition between capitalism and communism between the soviet union and the united states.
- Explains that the united states' commitment to halt the spread of communism in the world was exemplified by the republican platform in 1952 called the "new look foreign policy".
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