...Cold WarPatricia Hamilton Kaplan University OnlineSS310-Exploring the1960s- An Interdisciplinary ApproachMay 29, 2012Professor Rookstoolii Cold War I will be writing about longest war in history the Cold War . First, about the historical and political conditions of the Cold War. Explanation of specific threat against United States during the Cold War. Third, my preparation to prepare my family for Cuba Missile Crisis in the Cold War. Lastly, the question I was asked about the Cold War. Historical and Political Conditions of the Cold War The Cold War begin in 1945 until 1991. The Cold War starts with conflict between the Communist nation of Soviet Union and United States. Also, what type of government should rule Eastern Europe. Their three historical and political factor in 1960s about the Cold War Bay Of Pig, Vietnam War, and Cuba Missile Crisis. Also, United States and Soviet Union competed with each other through the arm race. The Arm Race to be first to build manufacture atomic and hydrogen bomb. Also, Both developed short and intermediate – range missile that will armed with nuclear warhead and to make a nuclear weapon to battle in war. Next, is the space race the Soviet build Sputnik and United States send man to walk on the moon. According to (Naranjo,May 6,2003) “The longest conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War affected everything, from political ideology, foreign and domestic policy, to the presidency and the personal lives of Americans. With the collapse...
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...justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam”. This quote embodies the reason for the involvement in the war and also the end result. Communism was the number one factor for entering the war in Vietnam and containment was the policy. In the end, Vietnam fell to communism and the United States failed at their goal. Communism was the main reason for the initial involvement in the war that escalated into a full scale conflict; leading the United States to learn some valuable lessons. The era in which the war took place was one plagued with the fear of communism. The foreign policy known as containment was used to as a justification to intervene in numerous foreign conflicts. This policy is centered around the idea of containing communism to its borders and not...
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...that the wars inAfghanistan and Iraq are strikingly similar to the Vietnam war and thus will affect the generation the same way as the Cold War. The war in Vietnam lasted from 1961-1973 and the War on Terror has lasted from 2001-today in 2012. It is still going on. At the time,Vietnam was the longest war in history but it will soon be surpassed by the War on Terror. When the Cold War began, younger children and teenagers who were receiving information about the war had an undying hatred for the Russians. They felt the Russians were at fault for the war butdidn't see the flaws of their own country. For example, when the U.S. went into Iran in 1953 because a revolution and new leader would cut off American access to their oil. As a result, the CIA paid people $100 to have a revolution to overthrow the leader so we could access the oil. Then the U.S. put a dictator into power in Iran. Most people were unaware of these actions and therefore hated the opposing side. Today, many youths feel the same way about Afghanistan and Iraq. They have asense of hatred for these people for the Twin Towers incidents and the attacks on the Pentagon. However, not all of these people are terrorists which people like to assume. As in the Cold War wherepeople thought everybody in a communist country was communist, we see the same scenario with terrorists. A lot of people hate these people because they want the troops to come home. If they randomly come home and don't resolve this war completely...
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...On The Vietnam War My grandfather is a Vietnam War veteran. That alone drove me toward choosing this topic for this research paper. A few months ago, my grandfather had let me read his manuscript that he wrote when he had gotten home from his twelve year service for the United States. This novel he wrote is increasing my interest in the Vietnam War each page I turn. People often ask me whenever we’re talking about the war, which side I’m positioned on. I say that we shouldn’t have “helped” in the war. Because in my opinion, we could have done better for the country if we would have kept our noses out if the excitement but as for people like my grandfather, he opposes that perspective. I do have a firm grip on both paradigms of the war but as you can tell, I want a world with no war possible but honestly, who doesn’t? I guess you can call me a dreamer. But I know I’m not the only one. I thank John Lennon and my Mother for that lesson. I love my mother and my grandfather just as much. But, like I said, because of that, I know and understand two, very different opinions or viewpoints of the Vietnam War. My Mom is somewhat a flower child from when she was just a teenager. That all began because she never really got along with my Grandfather all that well. My Grandfather (my mom’s step dad) was the stereotypical; stern but fair, strict yet loving, harsh yet respectful step-father. Due to that reason my Mom was a rebel to the degree of a flour child. She is always opposing war any which...
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...deepened the Cold War. You are free to pick from any number of events but analyze in depth each event (e.g., the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the Vietnam War). The Vietnam War was the longest war in United States (U.S.) history. This war did begin with the U.S. offering financial aid and military advisement to South Vietnam to support them against the communism in North Vietnam. North Vietnamese communist forces led by Ho Chi Minh first battled the French and then the South Vietnamese. After the attack by North Vietnamese, President Johnson passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution allowing him to make decisions on the war without the approval of Congress (ushistory.org). This led to establish troops in Vietnam, 500,000 soldiers in South Vietnam (Brower, 2012). Many American soldiers lost their lives and the war lacked support and made widespread protests in the U.S. According to Brower, President Lyndon Johnson stated he did not want to be the “first president to lose a war.” Finally with the denial to send additional troops, there was a cease fire. However, soon after the troops of U.S. were came back home, North Vietnam attacked and took over South Vietnam and became one communist county. This became a war that U.S. lost 58,000 Americans soldiers, and more than 150,000 were injured (Kelly, n.d.). Controversy remains today over what was really true and whether the U.S. should have been involved. Was the U.S. Government more concerned with “winning” the war then assisting...
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...Vietnam War IP2 Alicia Stephens AIU Abstract In this paper it discusses the Vietnam War and some consequences of it. It also provides information about the war and the impact that it had on the United States, the reason for the war and the results of it. It also discusses the outcome weather it was beneficial or detrimental to the United States. It also describes details about the war and things that happened during this war/conflict. Vietnam War The Vietnam War was the longest most unpopular war in American History, The toll they paid wasn’t just monetary, it cost the people involved dearly, physically and mentally; causing suffering, sorrow and national turmoil because of bad press meant that Americans divided (History.com/Vietnam war). During the Vietnam War the U.S. forces were made up of draftees, whose average age was 19 years old. They were inexperienced and unwilling to fight; they would spend about a year in Vietnam and then return home. During the war over 200,000 were killed. Vietnam went from a major exporter of rice; to a country that couldn’t feed itself. Large areas of countryside were ruined. Many traps were left, and still are there in many cases (History.com/Vietnam War). Staggering influence on one country’s culture is no more evident than in America’s involvement upon entering the war the United States government were convinced and assured the public of its confidence in very quick and consequences free resolution to their problem...
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...The Undeclared War Known as Vietnam Akilah K. Berry History 105 Professor Joseph Krulder American Intercontinental University The Vietnam War is considered the longest war. It can also be known as the unnecessary war, the war we lost, and an unofficial war. This war demonstrated to the world that the United States of America will defend its beliefs by any means necessary. It unified yet divided it’s own nation while focusing on the conflict at hand. Despite the fact the US Congress never officially declare war, the most decisive (excluding the Civil War) and America’s longest war is known as The Vietnam War. Around 1950, in efforts to protect the Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia known as the French Empire in Indochina the US initiated their involvement. In addition to protecting the French Empire the prevention of Ho Chi Minh’s Nationalist-Communist Viet Minh forces gaining control of the French Empire was also a key objective. At the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the Viet Minh seemed to achieve independence and national sovereignty in addition to their victory, regardless of great assistance from the US. At the 1954 Geneva international conference, the United States (for whom a Nationalist-Communist Vietnamese government was unacceptable) divided the country in two. The southern half was the birthplace of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). Americans spent the next twenty years defending the RVN which was an artificial country (Buzzanco, 2010). By 1960 the National Liberation...
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...Vietnam War Essay During 1968, the Vietnam War was a defining moment in American History. It was caused by many factors that contributed to the warfare in Vietnam during the years. Most factors were the beliefs held by people who wanted or to prevent Vietnam becoming an independent country. Many people suffered due to these beliefs and policies and that the Vietnam War is now considered as one of the most distressing moments in the 20th century. During this time, fear and suspicion were prevalent due to the decisions of the government, and battle occurring in Vietnam. The Vietnam War had evolved from a civil war to a guerrilla war, and then ultimately became a total war. The Vietnam Conflict started out as a civil war, because after the French left the colony of Vietnam county divided into two rival factions, North and South. The communist nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh, whose ideals were based on communist China, led the north. The south was empathized the ideals of a democracy. Because of this difference, at the Geneva conference, they decided to split Vietnam into two different countries: North and South Vietnam. After the United States became involved on the side of the south, the North Vietnamese or the Vietcong fought guerrilla warfare. Ho Chi Minh and his people did not have the money or the weapons to fight a total war. The Vietcong used their strengths to fight the war against the South Vietnamese and the United States by using their knowledge of hit and run guerrilla...
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...World War II is frequently seen as the last Great War. As opposed to the wars that tailed it — Korea and Vietnam, basically World War II is said to have had an unmistakable reason: the crushing of Nazism and autocracy and all the ghastly things for which they stood. The depiction "last great war" likewise suggests that the result, not at all like those of later wars, was an unambiguous triumph for America and its Allies — a triumph for opportunity and majority rule government. Korea stays partitioned. Vietnam was bound together under Ho Chi Minh. Be that as it may, in World War II, great triumphed over malice. Nazi Germany, rightist Italy, and majestic Japan were totally crushed and afterward changed into pleasant vote based systems that then...
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...times of war and the struggle to make a better life in a foreign country. The Happiest Refugee is a memoir written by Anh Do which was first published on the 1st of August in 2010. It is regarded as one of the most influential and well-received novels in the world of literature for its great insight on the life of refugees. The book provides a universal message to its readers about the suffering of human beings during wars and their struggle to make a better life in a foreign country. The Happiest Refugee is about Anh Do and his family’s journey for Vietnam to Australia during the Vietnam War in 1962; which was the longest war the Australia had been involved in. Due to the war Anh’s family and friends were forced to leave their country and come to Australia in search for a better life. Refugees often have to risk their lives on dangerously crude and overcrowded boats to escape life threatening circumstances and poverty and war in their nation. The Happiest Refugee provides reader with a n insight to a refugee’s life and demonstrates the circumstances and situation they must get through in order to start a new life. The Happiest Refugee is a memoir written by Anh Do in August 2010. It’s a story about the Anh and his family being forced to flee from Vietnam and come to Australia in search for a better life. Anh’s family and friends were forced to sell all their belonging and spend all their savings just to by a boat in which they could escape in. During the war not only...
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...About 58,000 American soldiers died in the Vietnam War. The reason why the Vietnam War took place is because the North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to unite Vietnam under the communist rule. Around two million Vietnamese civilians and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and NLF fighters died. In honor of all of the Americans dying, they made a memorial about it. A memorial is something that is usually a structure, and it is there to show honor to a person or an.event. The Memorial is called the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The memorial is a long wall that shows each name of an American soldier who died during the Vietnam War. The names are carved into the wall. There are 58, 286 names listed on the memorial. It took eight...
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...college, but it was once they had finished their college hours their names went from being at the bottom of the list to the top of men to be drafted. The anti-war movement was college students protesting for the war to be over before they were to be drafted. The Vietnam War has been recorded as one of the longest wars in United States history. The war spanning over fifteen years from 1960 to 1975, it unfortunately started before then during President Truman and President Eisenhower time in office. President Truman set forth a modest attempt to aid the French in the 1950s in trying to retain the control of a colony that contain Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. It was in 1954 that the French fell suit to the Communist led Vietminh army and with that was compelled to accede. However, the United States was refusing to the arrangements that were made by the North Vietnam Communists. Now, under President Eisenhower saw the advantage of taking over control from the French and trying to fabricate a government for South Vietnam. With this Eisenhower started to dispatch military advisors to South Vietnam to start training the Vietnamese army and along with that he unleashed the Central Intelligence Agency to North Vietnam to perform psychological warfare. Truman and Eisenhower’s political antics towards Vietnam took place before the War itself actually started....
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...Why did the United States lose in vietnam? The Vietnam war started Nov 1,1955. It was the longest and first war the United States lost. Many thought the United States would win the war because they had superior technology. There are many reasons why they lost the war. They gave the president too much power. The tactics they used didn't help them out. Also because the United States didn’t have the support back home anymore. Those are just some of the ways the United States lost the war. In the Gulf of Tonkin US ships was attacked by Ho Chi Minh. Johnson asked the congress for carte blanche use of the military. He gave a variety of reasons for deploying 23,000 troops on the island. He would say his actions was to stop a communist takeover. MacNamara thought they should escalate and put more troops in the war. Therefore over 50,000 troops was in Vietnam by ‘65. When Nixon got elected in ‘68 he was seen as the “law and order”. In March of ‘68 the My Lai Massacre happens, killing over 340 Vietnam happened and was covered up by the army. In ‘73 the War powers act was created it limited the president use of troops....
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...A Nurse Serving in Vietnam In April 1956 the “Army Nurse Corps” ANC was sent to Saigon, Vietnam. The three nurses who were sent over there were to teach the South Vietnamese nurses the “care procedures and techniques”. They were not sent over there to treat United States soldiers, they had to teach the Vietnamese nurses. Those treating the United States soldiers came from the “American Embassy Dispensary”. In 1959 that place taking care of our soldiers could no “longer meet it’s mounting requirements”. Everyone had something to do with it, the Navy, Medical people, the U.S. Army, the dental people and the Air Force. The tri-service had two “Army Nurse Corps officers” and it lasted three year. The women who were in Vietnam went through a lot. The women who served were exposed to a different culture, “sex, trauma and death”. The American nurses who served moved to a Vietnamese hospital, and they had to train the Vietnamese nurses. They tried to train them “in a better way” and tried to learn the Vietnamese language of the Vietnamese nurses. There were nurses who were making all kinds of money, not from the services they would normally give either. Some of the nurses ended up coming home pregnant, and some, came home rich with many being pregnant plus rich. Many nurses that would come back to United States were considered sluts just for being friendly and many were more then, just friendly. The nurses that finally took care of our soldiers...
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...Vietnam: The Effects on Americans Denise Eliason American History Professor Geisler September 19, 2013 Vietnam: The Effects on Americans The Vietnam War was not just the only battle lost by the United States, but also the longest battle. American responses to the war ranged from riots of those opposing the war to draft dodgers to those believing that in order to fight Communism, the war was inevitable. Over time, American responses regarding the war changed. How did these responses change? How did domestic political concerns shape the country’s response to the war? How did the war shape domestic politics in the 1960s and early 1970s? The War in Vietnam, from my own viewpoint along with other Americans, is difficult to understand. (ehistory.osu, 2013) To this day, people are trying to determine the reason behind United States involvement in a war that should have been fought by the people of North and South Vietnam. In an attempt to contain Communism and prevent the domino theory from taking place, the United States became involved under the assumption that South Vietnam was a true Democracy. Americans responded to the war in a positive manner because they were led to believe the cause was similar to efforts in South Korea. As time went on, American became divided in their opinions on the war which in turn caused wounds that have yet to be healed or may never be healed between some. When America declared her open involvement in 1964 after the Tonkin incident...
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