Duong Van Minh

Following the Battle of Diem Bien Phu the Geneva Peace Accords were signed in 1954 and were considered a temporary resolution to conflict in Indochina. The agreement played a pivotal role in the development of both South and North Vietnam until 1964, creating instability in both regions. Politically, of one of the key elements of the peace agreement was the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel. The division played a significant role in the social development of the North and the South.…

The Vietnam War was a proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Vietnam was split into two in 1954 as part of the Geneva accords in order not to have another large-scale war after Korea. Communist North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies whilst democratic South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. The two were due to be reunified by national…

1. Until the War in Afghanistan, The Vietnam War was the longest war in American history. For Americans, the war spanned over a time period of 15 years, however for the Vietnamese people the struggle for independence and self-determination lasted much longer than that. A small American involvement that started with a group of key advisors eventually escalated into a large scaled war that had an army of over half a million American soldiers. The American involvement in Vietnam started slowly.…

Political Impact John F. Kennedy, who stood tall with Ngo Dinh Diem in defending Vietnam proved to be the first snowball in the great avalanche that was the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson had to inherit the decisions of the previous administrations and ideologies when it comes to containing the spread of communism with the ever escalating war in Vietnam and popularity of it rapidly decreasing due to factors like Tet and the unpopular draft Lyndon B. Johnson chose not to accept the Democratic…

000 were North Vietnamese and Vietcong soldiers, 223,000 were ARVN troops from South Vietnam, and about a million were civilians there. U.S military crosses 58,000 deaths including Australians and New Zealander. According to H write t now continue a Van lau a communist officer he said, “there was at least one dead, or some wounded in each Vietnamese family.” Around 800,000 children had been orphaned or abundance due to the death of their parents fighting the war. Heavy U.S bombings had made…

The Vietnam War, (1954-1975), was a lingering conflict that immersed between the North Vietnam communist government and its allies in South Vietnam (Viet Cong) and its principal ally, the United States. Some refer to this as the “American War” in Vietnam or the “War Against the Americans to Save the Nation” (Encyclopedia Britannica). The war was also a part of a much larger conflict as well, but that is not the research for this paper. On the home front, the opinions of the war and the U.S.…

Queda volunteer soldier, fighting for their perceived way of life, on their own soil, against a foreign invader, with all their capability (although limited as it was). Compare that to the mindset of a drafted or paid U.S. soldier, fighting thousands of miles away from home, to prevent the spread of communism or to find weapons of mass destruction or create a stable government. Ironically, history has proven that the fall of South Vietnam to Communism was not a significant threat to Democracy…

When the Japanese surrendered and left the country it was split between the Vietnam and the French. Eventually the leader of Vietnam’s democracy, Ho Chi Minh, declared that Vietnam was now its own independent country. This caused a war to erupt between the followers of Ho Chi Minh and the followers of the French. This conflict was known as the First Indochina War. After the French lost their high ground in this war, they were pushed out of the country. After the French…

response, Ho Chi Minh composed the guerilla force known as the Vietminh. At the time of World War II, Japan invaded Vietnam. The United States recognized Ho Chi Minh as an ally and aided Vietnam in the defeat of Vietnam. Soon after, France gained control of Vietnam again with the support of the United States. During these…

Laos is a Southeast Asian landlocked country that is surrounded by Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, and China. Laotians immigrated to the United States due to being drawn into the Cold War in 1975. Before immigrating to the United States they tried to flee to Thailand. This was due to the people’s Democratic Republic being proclaimed. Thousands of Laotians tried to move to Thailand for a better life in the mid 1980’s. Thailand had refugee camps set in place for the Laotians, but the living…