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_You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours,
but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.
--Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940s
The Vietnam War, 1954-1975
-Was a civil war in that country, which had been divided, on the 17 parallel, into North and South regions following the defeat of the French in 1954.
-North is communist, south is democratic
-North is supported by USSR and China, giving them weapons and supplies
-South defended by the United Sates
-Feared the Domino Effect in south east Asia
-Guerilla war
-In 1966, 190,000 US troops sent to Vietnam
-First war shown on television
-Tet Offensive and other pictures of attrocities were shown on US television and US public became against the war
-1969 US Preident Richard Nixon began to pull trooped out, called Vietnamization, and replaced that with a bombing campaign 1975 North takes over the whole country
-Other neighbouring countries, Laos and Cambodia, turn communist (Domino Effect)
-Vietnamese fled in boats and Canada accepted thousands of them
-2 American presidents involved: Lyden B Johnson, Richard Nixon
-North is communist, south is democratic
-North is supported by USSR and China, giving them weapons and supplies
-South defended by the United Sates
-Feared the Domino Effect in south east Asia
-Guerilla war
-In 1966, 190,000 US troops sent to Vietnam
-First war shown on television
-Tet Offensive and other pictures of attrocities were shown on US television and US public became against the war
-1969 US Preident Richard Nixon began to pull trooped out, called Vietnamization, and replaced that with a bombing campaign 1975 North takes over the whole country
-Other neighbouring countries, Laos and Cambodia, turn communist (Domino Effect)
-Vietnamese fled in boats and Canada accepted thousands of them
-2 American presidents involved: Lyden B Johnson, Richard Nixon
Summary
The Vietnam War was a long, bloody conflict that ended with the United States’ first major military upset. It had huge ramifications, nationally and globally.