Vietnam War
Vietnam War
Overview
From the beginning, on 1955, congress chose this time for deaths of Americans due to MAAG by President Harry Truman. "Ho Chi Minh (North Vietnam leader) called for "People's War" on the U.S. to unite North and South Vietnam for communism." But south Vietnam did not believe in communism and tried to break away as it's own country. Intentionally, North Vietnam decided to attack the U.S. and try not to fight South Vietnam. South Vietnam asked to ally with U.S. to protect their country. U.S. agreed to bring military to help South Vietnam against North Vietnam. So North Vietnam felt like they were lacking in economics and cartilage against South Vietnam which lead them to ask Soviet states help out with those. The reason South Vietnam surrendered was because American military started leaving on 1973 which made South Vietnam not have enough troops to fight against North Vietnam. On April 30, 1975, there is no more South Vietnmam nor North Vietnam, it is the one country named Vietnam today.
Opposed the war
Sorrow in war
South Vietnam Army
Connection to Present Day
Impact
Five Extra Facts
-"Some 500,000 of the 3 million troops who served in Vietnam suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder based on a survey from Veterans Administration."
-Many refugees who fled Vietnam after the war were arriving at many southern countries.
-There were too many refugees fleeing to those countries that they stopped accepting those refugees in.
-Seemed to be the only war America ever lost.
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