where can i find out info about the vietnam war. was it a civil war that we should not have entered?
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It was a civil war of sorts, because after the Second World War Ho Chi Minh had taken power in North Vietnam, using this power base to try to evict France from all of Indochina and after Dien Bien Phu when France did withdraw a UN agreement split Indochina into four parts. This is where the civil war began, the Communists under Ho Chi Minh had a great deal of prestige because they had been a fairly successful opponent against the Japanese, while the US had recruited known collaborators for their puppet South Vietnam (similar to how the two Koreas were set up). While the regime in the north was brutal, the one in the south became even worse.\n\nThe US continued its support to the South Vietnamese government, but it never actually confronted the south about cleaning up its act, which continued to make it vulnerable to lose support from the people.
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Even though I support trade, and full diplomatic recognition of Vietnam.....there's a lot of unanswered questions.\n\nMia's need to be accounted for.....BEFORE we have full ties to Vietnam. The Vietnam conflict was a somber tale in our history. The brave Americans that died there need to be brought home.
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The key difference is that there was no moral justification for our invasion of Vietnam.  We betrayed ourselves and not unlike Iraq entered into a war of choice based on false evidence. \nIn WWII, there actually was a REAL enemy who declared war on the United States from Asia and Europe .\nWW II was winnable, Vietnam was not. Both were costly, only one war was the US right to be involved in.  It was not Vietnam.
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frustrating situation and rising resentment. I can't think of any other nations who supported the vietnam war, that was the problem. Drugs didn't have anything to do with vietnam, it was a domestic issue.
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I'm sure somebody used em to describe Vietnam.   I think, though, that the issue they're talking about is our responsibility to provide stability in government. The removal of Saddam created a very real power vaccume in Iraq. (question of right/wrong in doing so aside) Simply leaving after getting Saddam, would have drawn even more condemnation from the world. The world would  be screamin at us for NOT doing something to help them. As it is, they're screaming at us FOR doing somehthing. Whether or not what we're doing is effective, is another story.
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Vietnam:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war\n\nDonut dollies:\nhttp://www.donutdolly.com/
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Sen. Webb has wrote excellent books on the Vietnam War. I don't know if they are critically aclaimed tho.And yes I have read them. Fields of Fire is the first book I ever read about Vietnam, it is an awesome book!
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Which war ? Vietnam has been at war for one thousnad years .\n" Every generation of men, they grew up knowing they were going to be in a war. The country had a 1,000-year history of warfare — with the Chinese, with the Japanese during World War II, with the French. — You accepted that as a way of life."\n\n" America inherited from the Europeans a world replete with dictators\nEven Vietnam was nothing more than a nasty inheritance from the French "
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www.wikipedia.com!! helped me on a lot of history assignments... just type Gulf war... ull get the info in like 2 seconds(depends on ur net speed lol)
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go to chinanews.com/war
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It wasn't all that different from Iraq.  The US decided that we wanted to prevent communist domination, in this case of S. Vietnam.  We said it was to help freedom and democracy, but it was really about a power struggle.  So like the freedom fighters we are, we stuck or noses in to prevent S. Vietnam from Northern invasion.  However, the North had their own supporters like Russia.  As the war lingered on and the draft was forcing young men to fight a war that wasn't directly threatening our national security, a lot of people disagreed...many innocent victims, us and them.  War heros returned to an unpopular welcoming.  The famous boxer Mohammed Ali refused to go and they took his title away from him.  The whole thing sucked.  Not too many guys really wanted to go and many moved to Canada, if their number was picked.  Hippies protested with peace signs while the smoked grass and dropped acid.  I missed a lot of this...a bit young, but I know other guys that were there.  It was no picnic.  One buddy of mine was so ready to fight.  He was #1 in boot camp, ready to storm the beach.  He got his wish, first off the boat, stepped on a mine, blew his face off, lost an eye, half a nose, half a mouth, a bunch of hair, and a little brains, while Nixon and Kissinger watched this whole thing go down the toilet.  It was a stalemate.  Rambo couldn't do it justice.  We finally bailed out.
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I sure as hell didn't know we lost the Vietnam war. it served no porpoise so Nixon wisely pulled us out.I sure hope I didn't lose my legs in vane
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Vietnam had effectively been turned into two countries, like North and South Korea.  The war was North Vietnam seeking to conquer the South and reunite the country by force.  The fighting in Iraq is nothing like that.  In Iraq, a few terrorists and religious zealots are trying to prevent Iraq from becoming a democracy.  They are funded and supplied from the surrounding countries (Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia), but no other country is trying to conquer Iraq.\n\nIn Vietnam, we were actually fighting another country, North Vietnam.  That is not true in Iraq.\n\nAlthough it was an integral part of the Cold War, the Vietnam War was an actual war unto itself.  The fighting in Iraq is a part of the War on Terror (stupid name, it should be the War on Islamofascism) but is not really a war by itself.  At least not any more.  Iraq fell within three weeks of our invasion.  The currant Iraqi government is our ally.  The fighting is the US-led coalition and Iraq against the terrorists.\n\nUS fatalities in Vietnam were at about 10 times the rate of fatalities in Iraq.  As wars go, the US fatalities in Vietnam were quite low; US fatalities in Iraq are minuscule.\n\nIts not quite true to say there was no coalition in Vietnam.  The South Vietnamese and the Aussies fought there with us, as did the South Koreans.  The French, of course, bugged out.\n\nThe US force in Iraq hovers between 120,000 and 150,000; the force in Vietnam peaked at over 500,000.\n\nDemocrats supported the war in Vietnam while there was a Democratic President, and turned against it when a Republican was elected.  We will see if their principles are just as flexible now if a Democrat wins in 2008.
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The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War (also known colloquially as Vietnam or Nam as well as the American War in Vietnam) 1 was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China, and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies — notably Australia, Korea, and the United States. US combat troops were involved from 1965 until the official withdrawal in 1973. The war ended on April 30, 1975 with the military conquest of the South by the North.\n\nSummary\nThe Vietnam War began after a very large-scale division of Vietnam into two countries with a de-militarized zone (DMZ) between them. As Maurice Larkin notes, crumbling under the economic strain of the war and fearful of the tide of opinion (which had now turned decisively against further fighting for control in Indochina), the French, under Pierre Mendès-France, simply 'passed the parcel bomb' on to the Americans, slipping out of the back door, so to speak. The Vietnam War ostensibly began as a civil war between feuding governments. Being Western-oriented and perceived as less popular than Hồ Chí Minh's northern government, the South Vietnamese government fought largely to maintain its governing status within the partitioned entity, rather than to "unify the country" as was agreed to at the Geneva Conference. Fighting began in 1957 with the U.S. and Soviet-Chinese involvement, and would steadily escalate from there. The conflict spilled over into the neighboring countries of Cambodia and Laos. North Vietnam did not respect the independence or borders of either country.\n\nThe Geneva partition was not a natural division of Vietnam and was not intended to create two separate countries. But the South government, with the support of the United States, blocked the Geneva scheduled elections for unification. In the context of the Cold War, and with the recent Korean War as a precedent, the U.S. had feared that a unified Vietnam would result in a Communist government under Hồ Chí Minh, either freely or fraudulently.\n\nThe South Vietnamese government and its Western allies portrayed the conflict as based in a principled opposition to communism —to deter the expansion of Soviet-based control throughout Southeast Asia, and to set the tone for any likely future superpower conflicts. The North Vietnamese government and its Southern affiliated organization (NLF) viewed the war as a struggle to reunite the country and to repel a foreign aggressor —a virtual continuation of the earlier war for independence against the French. While North Vietnam used nationalist propaganda, its party doctrine denounced the very concept of nationalism and any form of unity other than rule by the party.\n\n\n\n\n\nFrance had gained control of Indochina in a series of colonial wars beginning in the 1840s and lasting until the 1880s. At the Treaty of Versailles negotiations in 1919, Hồ Chí Minh requested participation in order to arrange more freedom for the Indochinese colonies. His request was rejected, and Indochina's status as a colony of France remained unchanged. During World War II, Vichy France had collaborated with the occupying Imperial Japanese forces. Vietnam was under effective Imperial Japanese control, as well as de facto Japanese administrative control, although the Vichy French continued to serve as the official administrators until 1944. In that year, the Japanese overthrew the French and humiliated the colonial officials of the state in front of the Vietnamese population. The Japanese then began to encourage nationalist activity among the Vietnamese. Late in the war, Japan granted Vietnam nominal independence. After the Japanese surrender, Vietnamese nationalists expect to take control of the country and organize a socialist dictatorship. The Japanese army in Indochina attempted to assist the Viet Minh in their goal by keeping French soldier
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Sad but true, all wars since world war 2 have been conflicts. from korea to iraq. every generation has seen war. or as the gov calls it conflict. tell a soldger that korea, vietnam, panama, iraq 1, iraq 2 is not a war. i wouldnt but the gov would. they would tell them it was a conflict. messed up i think.
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Seriously? The Civil War was a war between North and South. It started in 1861 and lasted years. The reasons for the war range from slavery to states rights. It is a very important part of American history and you really need to study up on it.
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No, Congress never declared war on Vietnam for fear that the Chinese or Russians might intervene.  We should have never lost that war but many people say it was "a wrong" war.  We should have sent more troops to help.