Essays Tagged: "Vietcong"
An analysis of the character Le Ly in Oliver Stone's "Heaven and Earth"
y Viet Cong propagandists and American and South Vietnamese advisers. Originally she sides with the Vietcong because her brother chose to join their ranks. She eventually grows to hate both sides, how ... wever, that is just one aspect of Le Ly's tremendous courage. To first risk her life by helping the Vietcong in the war effort, then to be raped, which is equivalent to being disowned in your family, ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
LA GUERRA DE VIETNAM
e 1959 hasta 1975, cuyo origen fue la determinación de las guerrillas comunistas (el llamado Vietcong) de Vietnam del Sur, apoyadas por Vietnam del Norte, de derrocar al gobierno survietnamita. ... ;ticas (URSS) y la República Popular China suministraron municiones a Vietnam del Norte y al Vietcong. El conflicto también afectó a Laos, donde el Pathet Lao (comunista) combati& ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Review of Film--We Were Soldiers--written 1 week from release in theaters. I was limited to 2 pages.
flict almost 30 years later, and conducted interviews with their former adversaries--members of the Vietcong who opposed them that day in the Valley. Their journey, coupled with interviews from the me ... em that day in the Valley. Their journey, coupled with interviews from the men who joined them, the Vietcong they had fought, and the surviving family members of the soldiers who fought, ended with a ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Fallen Angels By Walter Dean Myers This essay is about how a change occurs in a Vietnam Vets life due to his conflicts with man, himself, and the Vietnamese wilderness.
s.Perry?s whole ordeal in ?Nam? is mainly focused around the ?firefights? he encounters against the Vietcong (VC) and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). As he first arrives ?in country?; he can sense th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Der Vietnamkrieg- chronologischer Ablauf
nistischem Vorposten aus (300000 Mann Heer)- 1957: zunehmende Guerilliaaktivitäten des Vietcong- 1960:- Vietcong brachte größere ländl. Gebiete unter Kontrolle- ... 1960:- Vietcong brachte größere ländl. Gebiete unter Kontrolle- - Vietcong kontrolliert die Befreiungsfront von Südvietnam (FNL)- J. F. Kennedy verst&aum ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Battle of Saigon in Vietnam
ainst the south.American and South Vietnamese troops were taken by surprise by the large numbers of Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army who had infiltrated South Vietnam in the months preceding the att ... US and Army of the Republic of Vietnam installations throughout South Vietnam. In Saigon, nineteen Vietcong commandos blew their way through the outer walls of the US Embassy and overran the five Mil ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
The My Lai Massacure could have been avoided.
them. He broke the rules of war killing them. He used his men in killing civilians saying they are Vietcong. Vietcong are Vietnamese communists. He estimated 200 hundred Vietcong in My Lai, but he ki ... y Lai, but he killed three hundred and five people. None, still to this day, are known to have been Vietcong.Calley attacked the Vietnamese civilians before he knew if they were Vietcong. When Call ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Why did the US become involved in military conflict with Vietnam?
pected that this would take as long as it did. Incredibly the French were defeated by Ho Chi Mihn's Vietcong army at Dien Bien Phu. The Vietcong sought to promote communism in Vietnam.Communism was fe ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The military tactics used by both the USA and Vietcong forces in the 1960's.
The tactics used by the Vietcong and US military forces were very different and changed during the course of the war. At the ... orces were very different and changed during the course of the war. At the beginning of the war the Vietcong (NLF) army was aggressive whilst the US army was defensive. The Gulf of Tonkin incident bec ... was defensive. The Gulf of Tonkin incident became America's excuse to become aggressive towards the Vietcong.In 1965 General W. Westmoreland developed the strategy of "search and destroy". Its objecti ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
Shadow Of the Dragon.
erica to fit in the society. Danny and Sang Le both lived a very desperate life in Vietnam with the Vietcong's trying to take over Vietnam. A few years after the war between the Vietnamese and the Vie ... nny and Sang Le is that Danny wants people to think he is an American citizen, and not a Vietnamese Vietcong, he tries to deny his background to other people, that they would not have any wrong though ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
When We Were Kings.
of Muhammad Ali included being "handsome, articulate, funny, charismatic, and whoopin' ass too!""No Vietcong ever called me nigger", is the reason why Muhammad Ali never wanted to be selected to go to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Asia in de-colonization.
but Vietnam was divided into two parts. North Vietnam was occupied by the communist, they were the Vietcong people and oppose nationalist. The South Vietnam was occupied by the Nationalist, which was ... sent troops to fight in south Vietnam. Although the U.S sent troops to help the South Vietnam, the Vietcong still won the civil war. After this civil war, Vietnam became independence.Laos-When Japan ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
To what extent did guerrilla tactics of the Vietcong enable them to achieve victory?
Ben DunnTo what extent did guerrilla tactics of the Vietcong enable them to achieve victory?Its critical strategic position in south east Asia bordered ... olution, which gave Johnson power and unlimited funds to wage war in Vietnam.To what extent did the Vietcong military structure allow for them to be triumphant?The Vietcong were infinitely more able t ... la tactics they employed were a key to their ultimate victory.The Guerrilla tactics employed by the Vietcong were the perfect tactic to use. They could not wage an open war due the fact the far econom ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
The Tet Offensive
The Tet OffensiveThe Vietnam War was a conflict between South Vietnam and the Vietcong and NorthVietnam. The war began in 1954 and ended in 1975. The Vietnam War was "primarilyfo ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts
Film Review: Platoon, "Fighting for a Different Cause"
hris, the main character of the film Platoon. It refers to men who were supposed to be fighting the Vietcong, but instead are fighting their fellow soldiers. The world is made up of people with differ ... us is when the men enter a Vietnamese village that they thought may be hiding information about the Vietcong. The American soldiers are trying to find all of the village people to get them out of thei ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Describe the military tactics used by both the U.S.A and the Vietcong forces in Vietnam in the 1960's
The U.S.A and the Vietcong had different military tactics; The USA used modern technology such as the napalm bomb. Wer ... had different military tactics; The USA used modern technology such as the napalm bomb. Were as the Vietcong used guerrilla warfare. The USA was confident of success "America could simply not believe ... ke backing up the boys in Vietnam. 26% felt moved to oppose the war" Also the USA felt confident as Vietcong were from a poorer country and had to use traditional ways of fighting, but they had the ba ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Vietnam War and the TET Offensive
Vietnam War and the Tet OffensiveVietcong guerrilla fighters violated the temporary truce they had pledged to observe around the luna ... tion and that something needed to be done. Out of this report arose the plans for the Tet offensive.Vietcong leaders had carried out a vigorous propaganda campaign in order to prepare their forces. Ho ... s objectives within a period or within force levels politically acceptable to the American people". Vietcong soldiers stormed the highland towns of Banmethout, Kontum and Pleiku, they then simultaneou ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Cambodia During the Vietnam War
m Sihanouk was ruthless leader. He relied on oppression to put down any dissent about his rule. The Vietcong started using Cambodia as a staging ground of raids into South Vietnam. Sihanouk did not wa ... using Cambodia as a staging ground of raids into South Vietnam. Sihanouk did not want to anger the Vietcong because; he believed that they would eventually win the war. He also did not have an adequa ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
The military tactics used by the U.S.A. and the Vietcong in Vietnam in the 1960's.
The USA and Vietcong's tactics that were used towards each other were cunning and sly. The Vietcong's tactics we ... also fought a lot at night wearing dark clothes so the USA's military wouldn't see them and because Vietcong's knew their way around the jungles more than the USA, the USA's army were better 'prey'. T ... n't wear uniform either so the Americans didn't know if they were peasants working in the fields or Vietcong's as they both wore the same black pyjamas and wide straw hats. The Vietcong mainly concent ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Why was it that the USA intervened in Vietnam between 1954 and 1963?
Vietnam War due to the lessons from China, Korea and domino theory, weaknesses of South Vietnam and Vietcong.The US saw China and Korea fell as dominoes in 1949 and 1953. They were not prepared to see ... etnam, Republic of Vietnam, was also another issue to the US. This meant that the north Communists, Vietcong, could be welcomed by South Vietnamese and easier to take over. This was because of the cru ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History