vietnam+war

The vietnam war

When- From 1959 to april 30th 1975 Where- Vietnam, Laos and cambodia How- American president eissenhower didn’t want communism to get to america. Who- The president because he didn’t want communists to take over Military Most of the combat toke place in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Involvement peaked in 1968 at the time of the Tet offensive. Under a policy called Vietnamization, U.S. forces withdrew as South Vietnamese troops were trained and armed. Despite a Peace treaty signed by all parties in January 1973, fighting continued. In response to the Anti-war movement, the U.S. Congress passed the Case-church amendment in June 1973 prohibiting further U.S. military intervention. In April 1975, North Vietnam Captured Saigon. North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.

Technology and tactics One of the technology advancements of the Vietnam war where aircrafts. They used combat aircraft such as the a-1 sky raider which was used to drop bombs on the enemies. Now tanks were brought in this war. Tanks can take out buildings and mostly anything. Then one of the big things was chemical warfare. The chemical warfare which could be stopped my the men wherein there masks. The chemicals would get into the lungs and suffocate you till you die.

Politics on Vietnam: The Vietnam War was fought between 1945 and 1975 and basically affected the whole world. It was a fight between South Vietnam and North Vietnam the South was very west influenced and was supported by the U.S.A, France, and Britain while the North was supported by China and the soviet. Most other countries supported North Vietnam but quietly because they didn’t want to come into the wrong side with the U.S.A. The cause of this War was from the cold war when the U.S had fought the soviet. The U.S was terrified of Communism and were prepared to do anything to prevent Asia from establishing that. So this became more of a War Ideologies than war between nations. Which is why this was a War with South Vietnam, France, Britain, and the U.S.A and on the other side North Vietnam, China and the soviet and that is why it became such a big scale on casualties.

Home front The first media view for people was when they had their first television broadcast in the 1960’s when the U.S set up to channels one Vietnamese language and the other in English. The national broadcaster Vietnam television was established in Hanoi with assistance and technology from Cuba. A journalist by the name John Pilger’s was there experiencing the war and coming back with summary’s and ended up writing books and such he received many awards and was well respected. A lot of media’s focus was on how many soldiers have lost lives through out this battle 20,000 perished.