Why did the United States become involved in Vietnam? Background to the Vietnam War: At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Ho Chi Minh and a small group of Vietnamese nationalists met with President Wilson and asked for his support for an independent Vietnam, but unwilling to cause conf...
Although a number of factors and influences, domestic and international, contributed to America's defeat in Vietnam, the overriding reason the United States lost the war was one that has often fueled nations'losing military efforts throughout history: the fundamental error in strategic judgment calle...
“America’s involvement in Vietnam derived from its international position at the end of World War 2. 1945 the wartime coalition between the Soviet Union and the United States began to weaken once its sole aim the defeat of Nazi Germany seemed secure. Hitler’s collapse soon threw…show more...
Why did the Vietnam War become increasingly unpopular with the people of America? The Vietnam War was the first televised war and because it received so much media coverage brought home to Americans the stark reality of war. Casualties were high. Over 50,000 troops were to lose their lives...
I think this show did a very good job of showing the America and American troops doing the best of the best of a non idea situation losing the war was not because of the American soldier it was because their arms were tied behind their backs by the politicians politicians all away politic...
of theTet Offensive. Upon his return Cronkite departed from his usual objectivity, declaring that the war could end only in a protracted stalemate. U.S. Pres.Lyndon B. Johnsontold his staff, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America,” and some held that Johnson’s decision ...
Anti-Vietnam War leaders began to claim that if the government did not withdraw from the war they might need the troops to stop a revolution taking place in America. Demonstrations against the war steadily increased in size during the late 1960s. In New York, over a million people took ...
In Vietnamese, the war is generally known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (Resistance War Against America), but less formally as 'Cuộc chiến tranh Mỹ' (The American War). It is also called Chiến tranh Việt Nam (The Vietnam War)....
“Fighting a war they did not believe in, a war they were ashamed of” W.J. Astore A 52-Year-Old Letter Says Much About America’s Failed Wars A friend sent along an oldTimemagazine from May 8th, 1972, which I’ve thoroughly enjoyed perusing. Back in the 1970s, I had a subscript...
by trade, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision.* There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America....