Vietnam War Research Paper

The Vietnam war was a conflict between southern Vietnam and the U.S. vs. the

people of northern Vietnam. The conflict in Vietnam was sparked by a desire to combine the two separate countries that were separated by this imaginary line. When north Vietnam showed its perfidiousness nature towards southern Vietnam many tensions arose. North Vietnam thought it was their usufruct to control south Vietnam as they desired. This and many other tensions combined lead to the Vietnam war. The Vietnam war, although many lives were lost, turned out to be a vital step to extinguishing the communist rule in Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh, the Communist leader in north Vietnam, wanted to make Vietnam all

communist. However, the people in southern Vietnam did not want to become communist. Ho Chi Minh sent adversaries to inform the southern Vietnamese of the communist way. The Viet Cong was a group of south Vietnamese who wanted to become Communist. The southern Vietnamese army fought against the Viet Cong in South Korea. The U.S. Started to send supplies to help the army of south Vietnam. All was well until northern Vietnam started to send troops to aid the Viet Cong. When the conflict escalated the Americans had to intervene in an attempt to keep the Communist power subsided.

The Vietnam war was a costly war

resulting in 3 million casualties, 58,000 of those
being American soldiers.

By 1962, the U.S. Military sent 9,000 troops to fight the war alongside southern Vietnam. From 1956 to 1975 2.5 million Americans served in Vietnam. 1/3 of those troops were drafted and the others volunteered. There were 11,000 women serving as nurses and other non-combative roles. Although the civil rights movement just ended 12.5% of the troops were African Americans. The average age of the American soldier was 21. One in every 10 American soldiers was killed or wounded in Vietnam. 1,700 American soldiers have never been found, still to this day (1). The Vietnam war was a costly war but was fought because the underlying view of communism must be

terminated.
The U.S. pulled the troops out in 1973. The war was still going on in south Vietnam. The
U.S. knew south Vietnam couldn't win it alone but denied to send more troops. The Communist troops of north Vietnam kept invading the south. The south could no longer take the heat and was forced to withdraw. Northern Vietnam was able to take over the south and win the war. North Vietnam killed nearly 5 million people in south Vietnam who they believed were resisting during the war (2). The aftermath of the Vietnam war created the largest flood of refugees since WWII. Northern Vietnam combined to form one country, Vietnam, which happened to be communist, to the U.S.'s dismay.
The U.S. tried to help south Vietnam and push out the Communist government in north
Vietnam, they did not succeed. Through 8 years of warfare, the U.S. could not endure any longer and was forced to pull out (3). The U.S.'s fight against communism would be postponed to a later date. There are still questions why the U.S. entered the war and if it was justifiable. Those questions only arose because we did not succeed in winning the Vietnam war. The Vietnam war was a war that most people say we should not have taken place in. However, for the soldiers who fought in the war we will always pay you the correct homage you deserve. This prolonged war that the U.S. fought in was named the Vietnam war, however, some experts refer to it as the war we should not have been apart of.