The Vietnam War has several causes. In considering what caused the Vietnam War, it is important to recognize its context in the ideological battle of communism versus democracy, as well as its legacy in colonialism in Southeast Asia. The Cold War divide between the East and West spread to ...
The greatest story of the Vietnam War: What it was and the reporter who got itDavid Warsh, Globe Staff
, Việt cộng, Vietnam War, Wright Aeronautical Division Cyclone 9 863C9WD1, Wright R-1830-103Bryan Swopes ARVN soldiers run to board U.S. Army CH-21C Shawnee helicopters. (LIFE Magazine) 12 January 1962: The first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War, Operation Chopper, took ...
many do not know why the war started or how it actually affected Vietnam, theUnited States, or the people. According to friends who were alive during this time period, even some people who were living through it had no idea what the countries were fighting about, or how it was going to...
Television, back at that time, was one of the very few media that the general public had accessed to, and it was one of the very few ways the general public could get the news of what was going on during the Vietnam War from. English: From George L. MacGarrigle, The United St.....
and nationalist groups caused problems for the Japanese during the occupation. When World War II ended, the Vietnamese nationalists hoped for independence, but the French were determined to re-exert its colonial authority over Indochina. As a result, the Vietnamese nationalists began their armed...
Here, you’ll find most everything is Vietnam War-related – over 500+ personal narratives, photos, videos, movies, artwork, war book reviews, and favorite music of the time. Much of what I present also impacts today’s soldiers, so here’s your opportunity to learn more about war and...
Fallaci: “That’s no good reason to keep on doing it.” Teanek: “Theoretically, you’re right, but in practice what you’re saying is very silly. It’s like convincing yourself—as I bet you do—that when you describe people dying in war you’re helping to abolish war. On the ...
America’s war in Vietnam had officially begun. 1968 was the deadliest year for American soldiers in Vietnam, and this image, captured by freelance photographer Art Greenspon, summed up the tremendous cost being paid by young men fighting in what increasingly felt like a futile war. On June ...
Some reporters commented that it would set a precedent for future military desertions during wartime; others believed it fell short of healing the wounds caused by the war. The U.S. military continued to search for deserters, such as Allen Abney, whodeserted from the Marine Corpsin 1968...