still picturing how they fought the war. What were the causes of the Vietnam War? Why did the United States become involved in this war? Why did the Vietnam War have such a huge impact both on the Vietnam and the United States? What was the impact that Ho Chi Minh had during the War? One of the most important features when describing the Vietnam War was why the United States became involved in the war, and their reasons for conflict amongst the Vietnamese in the North of the 17th Parallel. It is known
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The Sons of Guadalupe: The Vietnam era Generation And Their Journey Home Michael R. Ornelas, Chicano Studies Department January 24, 2007 A report to the Mesa College Sabbatical Committee in partial fulfillment of sabbatical requirements, Fall, 2006 “Two of the names that appear most often on the wall of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington are Johnson and Rodriguez. These two names tell us something about the composition of the U. S. military during the war, especially the combat
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1. THE CONDITION OF MONOPOLY OF PETROVIETNAM * The natural condition Viet Nam has abundantly natural condition, in which oil and gas are the valuable sources of energy to be exploited in order to meet the needs of broadcast on the country's economy . Also geographical location at the tip top of the Southeast Asia region , and has a long coastline , with many ports are favorable conditions for the development of oil and gas industry in Viet Nam. * The political and social environment
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high school, when they do not have deep understanding of the reality and their passion, and that was also my case. When I prepared for the entrance examination to university, I chose to major in Finance and Banking at the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City, one of the leading universities in my country. I did not know well what I desire was. However, during my four years at university, where I had to meet high requirements of English to read materials in English, gradually I found my special
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support they needed to win. The spread of communism was another reason the U.S. was involved in Vietnam and the U.S. was trying to contain the spread of communism (Doc 2b). The spread of communism was another reason because the leader of North Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, was a communist leader trying to take back over of South-Vietnam with his fierce military. It would have worked if the U.S. did not step in and help South-Vietnam, but the U.S. successfully helped defend South-Vietnam from North-Vietnam’s
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Q6. All around Siam, other countries were falling under the control of imperialism. At the time, Siam was located between British and French controlled lands, both were competing to take over Siam. The British controlled the country to their left, it was called Burma. To the right of Siam, the French controlled the land of Indochina. Great Britain and France seemed as if they never got along with each other. Both lands had the intentions of taking over Siam. This results in both France and Britain
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Ho Chi Minh, an advocate for the freedom of Vietnam...and communism. Yea I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel about it either. My topic, Ho Chi Minh, was basically the sole reason that the Vietnam war happened, because of him trying to take leadership of Vietnam. Then, Ho Chi Minh, “He Who Enlightens”, became a symbol of Vietnam’s struggle for unification. Ho Chi Minh helped found the Indochinese Communist Party in the 1930s after he learned about Communism from studying in France(History.com/
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that is, to sustain the trustworthiness and integrity of the pledge of Washington to restrain the evil menace, communism, across the globe. In 1950s, the communist regime expanded into North Vietnam under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh. The U.S leaders at the time believed that Ho Chi Minh could barely crushed the armed forces of France in the 1950s (Moyar 2006) or provoked the United States ten years after without firepower support from Beijing and Moscow, the two major communism headquarters. Fearing
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THE KOREAN WAR * The Korean War lasted from 1950-1953. * The peninsula was divided after World War Two into a Russian-backed north (The People’s Democratic Republic) and the American-backed south (the Republic of Korea). Each claimed the right to the other half in an effort to unify both. The division was the result of the occupation of Korea by the communists after the end of the war with the country eventually being divided at the 38th parallel. * In June 1950, the North Koreans launched
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1954 because of different economic ideologies. Communist was in the North and capitalist in the South. Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary leader, who established the communist governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. Ho Chi Minh became president of Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1969. He died in 1969. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, the Communist Party renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honor. In 1975, the Communist Party unified the North and South as one. The country’s
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