Essays Tagged: "North Vietnam"
Vietnam
VIETNAM. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam consists of the former Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). The division of the country resul ... munist-inspired nationalists in 1954. A prolonged civil war resulted in a victory for the Communist north, and reunification occurred in mid-1976.Physical SettingVietnam has an area of 127,207 square ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The Vietnam War
th Ho Chi Minh. On September 2nd they declared themselves independent and announced the creation of North Vietnam. The French recognized the new state, but the French and Vietminh's disagreements even ... uman sent troops over to train the South Vietnamese on how to use U.S. weapons while the French and North Vietnamese were building up their forces. In the spring of 1954, the North Vietnamese attacked ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
The historical events that occored in during the Vietnam War.
e Vietnam War is over. Peace agreements were signed in Paris by the South Vietnam Communist forces, North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the United States. The meeting lasted for several hours and in that ... d be released, South Vietnam had the right to choose their own future (whether or not to unite with North Vietnam), and North Vietnamese troops were given the right to remain in South Vietnam with ide ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Draft dodgers during the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War was a major conflict in the cold war. Vietnam was divided into two. The north was communist controlled. The government in the south, although ran by a dictatorship than a d ... mocracy, was supported by the United States. In 1960, the United States started the war against the north Vietnam. Men as young as eighteen were being drafted for mandatory military service for the Na ... 5, the United States increased the number of the United States troops and authorized the bombing of North Vietnam which started a large controversy with the people who did not believe in their countri ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
The Vietnam War.
ietnam separated because a man named Ho Chi Ming introduced communisation to Vietnam. The people of North Vietnam wanted Vietnam to be a communist country, but the people of South Vietnam didn't. So S ... ommunist country, but the people of South Vietnam didn't. So South Vietnam decided to separate from North Vietnam. North Vietnam did not like the way that South Vietnam dealt with the situation, and t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Asia in de-colonization.
ence. Indo China was divided in to 3 countries, which were Lao, Cambodia and Vietnam.Vietnam-In the north part of Vietnam, there were Vietnamese soldiers led by Ho Chi Minh fighting for independence w ... erence in Geneva and decided that Indo China could be free, but Vietnam was divided into two parts. North Vietnam was occupied by the communist, they were the Vietcong people and oppose nationalist. T ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Duty Or Murder Excellent Short Story
of a country for one reason, to locate and eliminate General Chion, the command and chief of one of North Vietnams most deadly platoons.I settle my Remington 700 LTR (Light Tactical Rifle) into a more ... p on a large ranch in southern Colorado 25 years ago and am currently over two hundred miles behind North Vietnam's half perceivable lines. I have been in Vietnam for three years the majority of which ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
The Errors of Vietnam.
past uprisings Ho Chi Minh organized a revolution. By the spring of 1945 Minh had mass support from North Vietnam and had raised a small army of 5,000 men.As chance would have it the Japanese moved in ... seized the opportunity and filled the void created by circumstance. Ho Chi Minh now controlled the Northern part of Vietnam.Several of the Vietnamese colonies were among the richest and most prestigi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Why did Australia join the Vietnam War?
nd 1970. It began as a determined attempt by Communist guerrillas in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. This struggle quickly widened into a fu ... ale international war and the US promptly sent troops to help South Vietnam in its struggle against North Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by communist USSR and communist China and South Vietnam w ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History
The Tet Offensive: Vietnam War. This paper was simply a senior paper required to graduate. You could choose any topic realted to history, government or anything of this nature.
e.In the beginning, most Americans felt an enormous need to help South Vietnam resist the communist North Vietnam and the Domino Theory. They believed that in the long run, keeping Vietnam away from c ... large American intervention began. This decision came about because of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. North Vietnamese torpedo boats allegedly attacked U.S. warships in the Gulf of Tonkin. President Joh ...
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 "primarilyfought in South ... in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States andguerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam" (bleep). The Vietnam War began soonafter the Geneva Conference divided Vietnam into t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts
The Siege of Khe Sanh began January 20, and continued for 77 days.
Khe Sanh was located about seven miles from Laos, close to the North Vietnam border. Khe Sanh was almost completely surrounded by ridges and stood in the center of ... ded by ridges and stood in the center of four valley corridors leading through the mountains to the north and northwest of the base. To the south Khe Sanh overlooked Route Nine, the only east-west roa ... d States marines successfully gained control of the hilltops surrounding Khe Sanh. In order for the North Vietnamese Army to gain any sort of triumph they had to figure out a way to make the marines a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Fallen Angels five parts of literature
novel the main external conflict was the war itself. This was the fighting of South Vietnam against North Vietnam. However with the war came many complications or little conflicts surrounding the char ... e war. However this conflict is solved, because Perry realizes that he was fighting the war for the North Vietnamese and to try and save them. Also another conflict within Perry is when he realizes th ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Describe the military tactics used by both the U.S.A and the Vietcong forces in Vietnam in the 1960's
g of other communist countries.The USAOperation Rolling Thunder was the codename for the bombing of North Vietnam. The operation started in February 1965. The operation lasted for 3 and a half years. ... on lasted for 3 and a half years. The aims of this operation were:Bomb railways, roads and bases in North VietnamDestroy the Ho Chi Minh trail, to stop supplies to the Vietcong.This failed because the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
The 1970s: Losing Faith in the Government
nson promised that he would not send in troops to Vietnam. The papers also revealed that as long as North Vietnam attacked, there will always be American troops on Vietnamese soil. The Pentagon Papers ... in its war intentions. Furthermore, it showed that the US was engaged in under cover activities in North Vietnam as early as 1954. Many Americans felt unbelievable that political leaders could provid ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Discuss the impact of Diem's and Ho Chi Minh's policies on Vietnam from 1954 until 1970?
d by the Vietnamese people, culminating in the midst of this conflict, the division of Vietnam into North and South as stated in the Geneva Accords. These now independent territories each had their ow ... ifferent in their beliefs, governing each of their 'nations' population. Between 1954 and 1970, the North's Ho Chi Minh, a communist, and the South's Ngo Dinh Diem, 'a pro-democratic nationalist', wer ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Vietnam
etnam was given independence from French rule. Due to the Geneva Conference, Vietnam was split into North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supposed to be ruled by Ho Chi Minh, whereas, South Vietn ... of holding elections in Vietnam due to which the Communists would obviously emerge victorious, with North Vietnam not allowing free elections in their part of the country. Therefore, as neither North ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
"Anti-Vietnam Movement" I had a couple of fragment and run-on senteces, but other than that my professor, Dr. Durand (University of Maryland), said i did an outstanding job.
July 1954. Communist forces defeated the allied French troops at the remote mountain outpost in the northwest corner of Vietnam known as Dien Bien Phu. This decisive battle victory for the North Vietn ... ed too much power to the Communist Party of Vietnam and as a result, we eventually went to war with North Vietnam. The Johnson administration wanted it to become a limited war, which is defined as a l ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Why did North Vietnam win and what were the consequences?
information has been compiled to allow historians and others to answer the question, "Why?" North Vietnam was successful in defeating South Vietnam due to its effective leadership and organiza ... family on how to rule, which in this case was incorrectly. When it came to military ability, North Vietnam again had the upper hand. Looking at the troop statistics would make one think otherwi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Vietnam War
a fought in the Vietnam War from 1965 until 1972. At that time the war was being fought between the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong on one side and the Americans, Australians and South Vietnamese o ... and the Viet Cong on one side and the Americans, Australians and South Vietnamese on the other. The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong were fighting to unify North Vietnam and South Vietnam as a commu ...
Subjects: History Term Papers