Informative Essay: Is The Vietnam War Justified?

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When you hear the word “war”, you automatically think about people dying and that it is wrong. There has been many wars in the past decades. For example, the Vietnam War, the Holocaust, or the Civil War. Even though many people died, war is justifiable because to stop the advance of a morally corrupt power, to protect the lives of innocent people, and to defend the country from terrorism or racism. Many dictators tried taking over their country or having control over people’s lives. Some dictators succeed while others don’t. This leads to going to war. War stops the advance of morally corrupt power. “The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between United States and the Soviet Union,” as stated by www.History.com staff. This illustrates how North Vietnam wanted to take over South Vietnam, but United States was against communism. “ To the anti- semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during …show more content…

In www.civilwar.org it states,“ They feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no- longer United States into several small, squabbling countries.” According to this website, it helps visualize how they feared what bad things would happen in the future, so they went to war to help free the slaves and become more united. As stated in www.civilwar.com it states, “The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.” This shows that if they had never had the war then we might of not have abolished

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