Apush Vietnam Dbq

Luis Martinez

APUSH

03/12/18

P.3

Short Answer Rewrite

The president that played the most significant role in the Vietnam War was president Richard Nixon. Nixon took the U.S. out of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War lasted throughout (Nov. 1, 1955 – Apr. 30, 1975). The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam over communism. Communism is a society where nobody is better or richer than you are, where everyone works together and shares in the products of their labor, and where the government creates a safety net of guaranteed employment and medical care for all. The US at the moment, was also going through the Cold War and the US felt like they were losing the over the spread of communism as China, and the trend was spreading to other nations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia as well. The US disliked the idea of the spread of communism, which meant the US would be allies with South Vietnam in the Vietnam War. Overall, it was not a successful war for South Vietnam and the US as North Vietnam defeated the South. Throughout the war there was More than 3 million people were killed including 58,000 U.S. military fatal casualties and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. Vietnam became a unified communist country.

Nixon promised of bringing “peace with honor” to the unpopular conflict in Vietnam. His “secret plan” to end the Vietnam War included gradual withdrawals of the U.S. troops from Vietnam as part of the so-called “Vietnamization” program from June 1969.

In my opinion, Nixon was a great president, but compared to other presidents like Lyndon B.

Johnson and John F. Kennedy, Nixon was very little. Nixon had many accomplishments as presidents for example, he ended the draft and the war in Vietnam, and when the country was deeply divided, he also strengthened foreign policies with China and the Soviet Union, and he continued to desegregate Southern schools. The United States had never stopped formally recognizing the PRC after Mao Zedong’s successful communist revolution of 1949. In fact, the two nations had been bitter enemies. PRC and U.S. troops fought in Korea during the early-1950s, and Chinese aid and advisors supported North Vietnam in its war against the United

States.
But Nixon’s problem was he was dishonest and disloyal to his own country. Everything collapsed for him when by 1972, Watergate Scandal came to the eyes of the public. The Watergate scandal is when Nixon’s admission had been caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents. But once again his lies and honesty oversee his true accomplishments. But on the other hand Lyndon B. Johnson was more of a president that Nixon ever was. Lyndon created the Great Society, It was his signature legislation that upheld civil rights, brought in laws governing public broadcasting, environmental protection, Medicare and Medicaid, abolition of poverty and aid to education. Those are accomplishments of a true and loyal president. Overall Lyndon B. Johnson looked out for people in poverty giving them a chance to be equal in the unfair society there was at that time.