Northern and southern Vietnam

Antonio sat on the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster which held, including himself, 50 soldiers. They were on route to Vietnam to assist Southern Vietnam who were struggling against the Northern Vietnam. The Chinese and Russia helped the Northern Vietnam, this action needed to be countered immediately by the United States. Lyndon Johnson sent soldiers to Vietnam, not to fight, but to train the Southern Vietnam’s soldiers. Antonio sat on his side of the aircraft, fumbling with his fingers. “Eugene, Leone, Andrew, was this how you felt, when you were serving the army?” Antonio asked himself nervously. At this time it was 1962 he was 23 years old the current president, Lyndon B. Johnson. “We will be there in a few moments, get ready to disembark!” ordered…

Research on the military trend during the Northern Dynasty The physical activities could be traced back to the end of the primitive society. According to historic materials, 4,500 years ago, in the era of the Huangdi Dynasty, the genre of dancing called “yun men”(the door of the clouds) and all kinds of martial practices, bare-handed or armed, has been recorded by the historians. In the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods, with the hotbed of numerous philosophical thinking…

Vietnam War On November 1, 1995 the North Vietnamese attacked South Vietnam to mark the beginning of the Vietnam War (Tet Offensive). Spanning nineteen years, the Vietnam War was a conflict fought between six different countries and allies over the differing opinions concerning communism. Ho Chi Minh was the leader for the North and believed in a communist government and received help from the Soviet Union and China (Biography of Ho Chi Minh). On the other hand, leader of Southern Vietnam,…

war started that later became known as the Vietnam War. It lasted “nineteen years, five months, four weeks and one day”("Vietnam War." Wikipedia). The war was between the Northern and Southern people of Vitnam who wanted solo control of the country. The Northern part of Vietnam was a communist run government and wanted to control the Southern part of Vietnam which was a non communist run government. The Southern and Northern part of Vietnam went to war for control and this affected the lives of…

Vietnam War Vietnam War also known as the American war took place form November 1st 1955 through April 30th 1975. This was a very costly war that involved the United States, northern and southern Vietnam, China, Viet Cong, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, North Korea, Soviet Union, Philippines, New Zealand’s, Taiwan, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Khmer Republic, and kingdom of Laos. This war initially was just North Vietnam government fighting with Viet Cong to reunify Vietnam under communist rule.…

wars took place neither on the United States or the Soviet Union. So the satellite states that each of these nations had been used for this purpose. The Vietnam War was one of the cases in which the Cold War turned into an armed battle in which the US and China supported different sides. Northern Vietnam, ruled by the communist Viet Mingh wanted to control the Southern part of the country in order to have a unified country under their terms. Meanwhile the Southern side they…

The United States had welcomed several different nationalities of immigrants to its shores before by the mid 1970’s; there were thousands of Irish, Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Polish, Spanish and my other nationalities living in the United States at that time. One nationality of people that had a very minute population in the United States at that time was the Vietnamese. Those few that were here in America were spouses and children of military personnel (Rkasnuam & Batalova, 2014). This small…

The Vietnam War began in 1954. However, the reasons for why Vietnam was divided began just after WWII ended in 1945. After Japan withdrew their forces in Vietnam and left, France wanted to regain control of Vietnam as they had control before WWII and before Japan was in Vietnam. Before this, Ho Chi Minh had organized Viet Minh or the League for the Independence of Vietnam. Immediatly after Japan left, Minh invaded northern Vietnam and declared it a Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The main…

French Colonialism in Vietnam undoubtably had a profound impact on the nation’s development and formation. The effects of French rule, while extended and pervasive, were not felt equally in the entire nation. French rule left a far different legacy in northern Vietnam as opposed to southern Vietnam. By establishing themselves in the South first, the French had a much different influence there in Cochinchina than they did in the Tonkin in the North. Since French rule began in the South, many…

The Vietnam War was a very important historic event, people have various opinions about if this war was necessary, but there will always be pros and cons to a war. The Vietnam War was a very unimportant war that the U.S. shouldn’t have been involved with. This essay will give you inside knowledge and will steer your opinion in the right direction. The Vietnam War began on November 1st in 1955, this war was sparked up by the fear of communism. The people of american wanted to put a stop to…