Vietnam War Dbq

The 1950’s was a very interesting time for the United States and the world. November 1, 1955 is when the Vietnam War started and it roughly ended 20 years later on April 30, 1975.

How did the Vietnam War start? The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. They viewed the conflict as colonial war and continuation of the first Indochina war against forces from France and later on the United States. Beginning in 1950, American Military advisors arrived in what was the French Indochina. Which President had started the Vietnam War? The president that started the the Vietnam War was The Viet Cong. With the Cold War intensifying worldwide, the United States hardened its policies against any allies of the Soviet

Union, and by 1955 president Dwight D. Eisenhower had pledged his firm support to Diem and South Vietnam.
What president ended the war in Vietnam?

On January 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War. In a televised speech, Nixon said that accord would “ end the war and bring peace with honor.” Who had eventually won the war? Our Military had won the War, but our politicians lost it. The Communist in North Vietnam actually signed a peace treaty, effectively surrendering.But the U.S Congress didn’t hold up it’s end of the bargain. How many Americans were killed in the Vietnam War? The Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the (DCAS) Extract files contains records of 58,220 U.S. Military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War. President Kennedy was a fervent believer in the policy of containment and believed in the domino theory, but not so much as to wage unending war with the Communist in Vietnam. During his Presidency, he and McNamara actively pursued a way to leave Vietnam, while still maintaining their commitment to a free south through financial support and training. Kennedy wanted all U.S personnel out by the end of

1965.
The gulf of Tonkin Incident only sort of happened...The gulf of Tonkin Incident is the catalyst for the escalation of American action in Vietnam. It refers to two incidents in August 1964. On August 2, the destroyer USS Maddox was shelled by NVA Torpedo boats. The Maddox responded by firing over 280 rounds in return. There was no official response from Johnson Administration.

There are many interesting things that caused this war , there was a time and a place for everything that happened to bring upon the Vietnam War. What caused the war is that Cochin-China, Southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, Central and Northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos makeup colonial empire French Indochina. In 1946 Communists in the north begin fighting France for control of the country. 1949 France establishes the state of Vietnam in the southern half of the country.1951 Ho Chi Minh becomes leader of Dang Lao Dong Vietnam, the Vietnam workers party in the north.
Did you know that 8,744,000 U.S troops served world-wide in Vietnam, 3,403,000 served in Southeast Asia, and 2,594,000 troops served in South Vietnam.

That is a lot of people to fight and go up against each other in a war. Many died for going to war for their country. It was a long ,sad and bloody war that roughly went on for 20 years , the longest war in the entire U.S history. Nearly two-thirds of the American men serving the war were volunteers. Most of the conflict took place in Vietnam, but later the fighting spilled over into the neighboring Laos and Cambodia in the early 70’s. In one year there had been 240 days of combat in just one

year.
The United States Congress had never declared war against Vietnam, and we didn’t lose the war but we withdrew before we likely lost.
The conflict had took place during the Cold War, the global struggle for supremacy between two superpowers, the United States Of America and the Soviet Union. It was essentially a war between communists and anti-communist forces. The United States of America was concerned that if the whole of Vietnam became communists, it would spread to other countries in the region. AKA the Domino Effect. Just between 1965 and 1975 the U.S spent $111 billion on the war. After the war Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Philippines stayed free of communism. North Vietnam’s victory in 1975 meant that the war had ended for good.The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities. Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 966,000 to 3 .1 million. Some 240,000–300,000 Cambodians, 20,000–62,000 Laotians, and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict, and a further 1,626 remain missing in action.
A large number of war crimes took place during the Vietnam War. War crimes were committed by both sides during the conflict and included rape, massacres of civilians, bombings of civilian targets, terrorism, the widespread use of torture and the murder of prisoners of war. Additional common crimes included African Americans have served in every war waged by the United States. Throughout the nation's history, African American soldiers, sailors, and Marines have contributed conspicuously to America's military efforts. From the Civil War through the Korean War, segregated African American units, usually officered by whites, performed in both combat and support capacities. In 1948 President Harry Truman ordered the military establishment to desegregate. Although the Navy and Air Force accomplished integration by 1950, the Army, with the vast majority of African American servicemen, did not achieve desegregation until after the Korean conflict. Vietnam, then, marked the first major combat deployment of an integrated military and the first time since the turn of the century that African American participation was actually encouraged. All in all the Vietnam war had many downfalls and uprises for America that built us as a nation we are today.