Essays Tagged: "vietnamese civilians"

Paper on the Vietnam experience from the book "Rumor of War"

ed them psychologically. Lieutenant Caputo, Crowe and the others tried for the assassination of two Vietnamese civilians, had succumbed to their environment. Their perceptions blurred, they committed ... cted. Caputo ordered an unauthorized raid into the village to capture and kill if necessary the two Vietnamese; and his men carried the orders through and killed the victims, of whom had no indication ...

(3 pages) 181 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

A three page paper covering the massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam war. (Bibliography included)

n military's darkest wartime activities ever, the rape, torture, and murder of hundreds of innocent Vietnamese civilians within a one day period. It was an occurrence, which was initially called a mas ... the US political institution, and an already divided American public.My Lai is located in the South Vietnamese region of Son My, an area of heavily established Vietcong troops. Several members of Comp ...

(3 pages) 176 1 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

This is a research paper on the Media at war and how it affected the public at home.

media had on the public. The media in the Vietnam War brought home images of American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians getting killed therefore turning the public against the war and the military. W ... to restrict still photography, television news, pictures, and video of American soldiers as well as Vietnamese civilians getting killed. These forms of media were still making its way home. Arthur Ban ...

(6 pages) 217 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

The My Lai Massacure could have been avoided.

es 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 killed three hundred and ... ed 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 Calley and his men were called to ch ...

(3 pages) 47 1 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The My Lai Massacre

s. By the end of 1967, most of the dwellings in the province had been destroyed and nearly 140,000 Vietnamese civilians were left without homes. "The war had taken on a hard-nosed character of its ow ... nraged by what he was witnessing in the hamlet below, set down his aircraft and began to rescue the Vietnamese survivors. He ordered his machine gunner to open fire on any American soldiers who contin ...

(4 pages) 65 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts

Study notes on the conflict in indo-china (Aust syllabus)

xtras:Evidence::1. Medical photographs of Napalm Burns2. My Lai Massacre - over one hundred unarmed Vietnamese civiliansàOfficial army photographer - hidden camera3. Secret Bombing of Cambodia ... uential role = members of media affliations2. Lack of presenting an informed viewNationalist LeadersVietnamese Communist leaders1. Intensely nationalistic2. as Vietminh àfought Japanese + Frenc ...

(45 pages) 145 1 1.7 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

My Lai Massacre.

ks. By the end of 1967, most of the dwellings in the province had been destroyed and nearly 140,000 Vietnamese civilians were left without homes. The war had taken on a hard-nosed character of its own ... nraged by what he was witnessing in the hamlet below, set down his aircraft and began to rescue the Vietnamese survivors. He ordered his machine gunner to open fire on any American soldiers who contin ...

(4 pages) 104 5 4.8 Dec/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Why did many Americans oppose US involvement in the Vietnam War?

Massacre happened. It was a massacre by U.S. soldiers of three hundreds to five hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. Becoming ...

(4 pages) 59 0 4.2 Feb/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The Vietnam War

ged the way at how we look at biological warfare. The people who were especially hit hard we're the Vietnamese civilians who had to flee as refugees in either direction and overseas to protect themsel ... Eisenhower offered direct economic aid to the South and dispatched military advisers to train South Vietnamese forces. Almost a year later, South Vietnam was made a republic with Ngo Dinh Diem as pres ...

(6 pages) 29 1 5.0 Jul/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History