Why The United States Won The Vietnam War?

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In December, 1941 the United States entered World War II. The U.S apprehensively late involvement provided Allied Powers with fresh competitors and monetary backing that the Axis Powers lacked. America's late entrance inevitably led to the end of the war in favor of the Allies, further settled America's place as a world power. The United States fought unreservedly on the side of democracy, freedom, and justice against dictatorship. In contrast to some of Americas admittedly bad wars such as, we can fairly say near genocidal Indian wars and the viscous conflict in Vietnam, World War II is widely celebrated as a crusade. Although, some are unwilling to question the ethics of the means by which they won the war which makes others question if the war was in fact a "bad" one. Was the extremity of Nazi aggression so great and the urgency to defeat Hitler so compelling, that the Allies have effectively been blinded from the kind of moral scrutiny that has been …show more content…

However one might answer those questions today, for much of the postwar period the occupying nations on both sides of the Berlin wall felt almost little to no reason to justify their actions. In the world war to defeat fascism and that ended the gory and distasteful Holocaust, the Allies committed a legion of unnecessary and criminal acts. Intentionally, the British and American bombers firebombed hundreds of thousands of civilians in German and Japanese cities alone. Once the logic of bombing took over Americans thought they must obliterate as much as possible as quickly as possible to end the war as soon as possible - as defined by international conventions, the rights of the civilians in armed conflict, vanished. The saturation bombing of German and Japanese cities, which incinerated, poisoned and suffocated hundreds of

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