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Ά summery of the Vietnam war

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War Was part of the cold war era that happened when France colonized Vietnam Cambodia ands Lao forming the French Indochina when this happened some people formed the impendence party know as the Viet Minh the leader Ho Chi Minh later was throw in jail for being suspected as a communist and was jailed for a year by the Chinese Nationalist Party. When the US heard of this the thought up something called the domino effect were China and Russia would try to spread communism to all of Asia. In 1954 France and the Viet Minh signed a treaty dividing Vietnam in to communist North Vietnam and Anti- Communist South Vietnam. The South Vietnam government wasn’t pleased with its people so the North Vietnam created a transport system called the Ho Chi Minh Trail to send soldiers and supplies to the communist uprising in the south. But the US supported The South’s Anti-Communist Government with money and advisers, then on august 2nd, 1964; North Vietnamese boats fired torpedoes at an American ship, patrolling the gulf of Tonkin’s. President Lyndon Johnson Got congress to pass the gulf of Tomkins. Resolution act It said that The US could use Military force in Vietnam. But first it was restricted to only bombing. But by the end of 1965 there were over 184,000 US troops in Vietnam and over 500,000 by the end of 1968. At first, everyone thought it would be an easy Fight for the Americans. There army was much more advanced and included a great navy and air force. But the Viet Kong the soldiers fighting the US used guerrilla warfare using small bands of soldiers to stage ambushes and built huge tunnel complexes to hide in. Not only that, but a lot of battles fought battles in a thick dense jungle. The U.S army was not equipped to fight this kind of war. Many us people died and the war was unpopular back at home. People didn’t know why we had to die for a tiny part of land half way across around the world. Soon after President Johnson stopped sending more troops, He even refused to serve a second term Because of Vietnam. Later The US pulled out of Vietnam and the North Vietnam Invaded and Took over South Vietnam Today there is still communism in the government but today Vietnam is a market economy were the people decided what they want to pay and sell. Today the subject is still very touchy to ask somebody if they had to live through it. And this is the end of the Vietnam War.