Sunday, May 2, 2010
Vietnam war
The Vietnam conflict was fought between 1955 and 1975 in Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. It was fought between communist North Vietnam and anti-Communist South Vietnam allied with The United states. The Viet Cong were southern Vietnam communist who engaged in guerrilla wars with anti-Communist forces. To fight back against Viet Cong guerrillas the US conducted search and destroy missions. The US sent armed forces to Vietnam because they feared that if they let South Vietnam fall to communist rule it could start a domino effect causing more countries to fall under communist control. The conflict was generally unsuccessful and after years of fighting Americans wanted to pull troops out of Vietnam. Several communist losses during the Tet Offensive allowed President Nixon to start a policy he called Vietmanization. The policy involved withdrawing troops and limiting conflict.In the end about 58,000 US solders died.
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Informative and straight-forward :)
ReplyDeleteConcise brief overview of the Vietnam War. You could go a bit more in depth about the conflict and some specifics though.
ReplyDeleteBrief, and very informative. Good Job. Its sad hat so many soldiers died in the end.
ReplyDeleteShort posting but very interesting, easy to read, and informative. Good job!
ReplyDeleteShort and to the point. I find it unfortunate how pride and stubbornness can lead to such drastic results.
ReplyDeletewith long topics such as this one, it's nice to condense the information.
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