Informative Essay: The Vietnam War

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Intro: In the many wars that the Us was involved none more than the vietnam war to change the american people opinion of war. Being a war that the people really didn't want to get into to begin with the recent advent of live same day broadcasting did little to persuade that people that going to necessary The vietnam war being one of the first war to be broadcasted by the mass media. made it easier to bring the war to the home front for the first time making it increasingly difficult for the average person at home to ignore the horrors and atrocities of, the so called necessary war by the US Government

Body:1 In the wake of World War 2 both the United States and the soviet union set forth to different campaigns in …show more content…

at the beginning the war was merely against the north and and south so a civil war of sorts. the only help the US offered was advertisers and training of the south vietnamese troops. It was just that for a long time something like 5-9 years then come 1960 one of the most controversial events in US history happened. The Gulf of Tonkin incident happen now to better understand this event you must understand it first, and depend on who you talk to came go to different ways.One which is what most americans were told and believed was that a US patrol boat was gunned down by the north vietnamese and vietcong. Then the other side which is now believed to be the true tale goes as following a US gunship was indeed

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