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Vietnam War- Causes, Impact, Summary

Vietnam War

By saurab sharmaPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
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Vietnam War- Causes, Impact, Summary
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Vietnam was the longest war in American history and the most unpopular American war of the 20th century. It has resulted in the deaths of more than 60,000 Americans and the deaths of an estimated two million Vietnamese. In any case, the Vietnam War was, frankly, a war of words.

The Vietnam War affected the United States and South Vietnam, a regional alliance, in a long and costly war against the regular military and terrorist forces of Vietnam, after the Cold War. The war was a long-running struggle between nationalist forces trying to unite the country against the communist government and American aid to Southern Vietnam to curb the spread of communism. Opposition to the war with his major allies, especially Britain, divided Americans, and President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of US troops in 1973.

The French were unwilling to give up their colony without a fight. After the French were defeated by the Vietnamese revolutionaries with great American support and great American support, the United States entered the war against the enemy determined to achieve complete and commendable independence from foreign rule.

This explanation was shared by many on the left of the war effort, including Daniel Ellsberg, a hawkish defense analyst who was so drawn to the war that he was determined to ruin his career by publishing 7,000 pages of divided documents on the Vietnam War, the so-called Pentagon Papers.

President Johnson's intention in including the United States in Vietnam was not for the US to win the war, but for UN troops to help South Vietnam protect the country from taking over the country. Entering the Vietnam War to win, Johnson set the stage for public and military concern as the United States fought North Vietnam and Vietnam.

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson escalated the war by launching airstrikes in North Vietnam and sending 536,000 troops in 1968. The annoying North Vietnamese Tet of 1968 turned many Americans into war.

In 1975, North Vietnam successfully conquered South Vietnam and united the two countries into one Vietnam. In 1989, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan and the United States withdrew its troops after a decade and a half in Indochina.

The Vietnam War points to a time when the United States and other members of the SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) joined Vietnamese forces against Communist forces consisting of South Vietnamese terrorists and the regular forces known as the Viet Cong (VC) and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) in Vietnam. The intervention of the US, the Soviet Union, and China turned the civil war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia into a war. This is in response to the claim that the US intervention turned the "civil war" in Vietnam into part of the Cold War.

The Vietnam War (1954-75) was a long-running dispute between the Communist government of North Vietnam and its allies against South Vietnam (also known as Vietnamcong), the government of South Vietnam, and its most important ally, the United States. Once called the American War in Vietnam, or the complete American war to save Vietnam, the Vietnam War was part of a larger regional war (see the Indochina War) and the manifestation of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union and its allies. The war was the direct result of the First Indochina War of 1946-1954 when France and Vietnam declared the colonial power of the communist forces known as Vietnam Minh.

The Vietnam War, in which the American Marines detonated land mines and tunnels used by the Vietnamese in 1966. Its most important ally, the United States, had provided the South Vietnamese government with military funding, weapons, and training since Vietnam was divided in 1954 into a communist north and democratic south. In 1961, tensions escalated into an armed conflict between the two sides when President John F. Kennedy decided to expand the military aid program.

Sacrifices suffered by both North Vietnam and South Vietnam are still being debated, with an estimated three million Vietnamese people dying. The effects of the Vietnam War in the United States continued long after the last troops returned in 1973. The United States spent more than $ 120 billion on the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1973. This spending led to widespread inflation, exacerbated by the 1973 global oil crisis and rising fuel prices.

After the outbreak of the 1968 Tet when North Vietnamese forces and their South Vietnam allies conquered Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, American resistance to the Vietnam War intensified. To win the war, the United States has launched Operation Rolling Thunder against North and South Vietnam and neighboring countries such as Cambodia and Laos, North Vietnamese who are transporting troops and goods to South Vietnam. The southern war has been described as a civil war in the south since it was fought, armed, and strengthened by the communist leadership in Hanoi.

The great Communist forces feared that the provocative peace would anger the United States and its Western European allies, and neither Moscow nor Beijing would want to risk fighting the West after the Korean War.

The Cold War was the third world war of the 20th century and was part of the so-called Long War, the Seventy-Thirty Years' War (1914-1989). Like the first two World Wars, the Cold War began and ended without direct military clashes between opposing forces because of restrictions on conventional forces and nuclear weapons.

When you think of the Vietnam War, the image in your head is probably the one taken in the film and in public thought. Historical images are highlighted in a new edition of The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.

Few people understand the role of photographers in Vietnam better than the photographers themselves, those who lived in Vietnam and those who worked with them. While the Vietnam War was in the news at the time, I asked some of these people to choose a picture from the moment they found it so important, and explain why they were being deported.

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