Social Effects Of The Vietnam War On The United States

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

rule of Vietnam. Since America was fighting the Japanese as well they shared information with Vietnam to defeat Japan. After World War II had ended Vietnam, for a short time, became independent. However, President Trueman decided to support the French to regain Vietnam because of concern over the spread of communism. As a result the Vietnimh went back to prepare for another war against their oppressors. After their defeat at Dienbienphu in 1954 the French withdrew from Vietnam.
Instead of Ho Chi Minh taking over all of Vietnam after his victory, he accepted a temporary division of Vietnam with him being the leader of the north and anticommunist Ngo Dinh Diem (2) as the leader of the south. This arrangement was only supposed to last two years. An election was to be held to rejoin Vietnam under one government in 1956. If the election had taken place Ho Chi Minh would have won and Vietnam would have become a communist nation.
The United States worked to create a ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

Johnson took over.
President Johnson ordered a bomb strike on North Vietnamese naval bases to raise his popularity in the polls for the up coming election. President Johnson was also allowed to send American forces into combat without getting a declaration of war against North Vietnam due to The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (3).
North Vietnam sent combat units down the Ho Chi Minh Trail (4) to South Vietnam in late 1964. Over the next few years the North Vietnamese Army or the NVA walked through the trail to fight in South Vietnam. President Johnson's foreign policy advisors called for an increase of American military in South Vietnam due to the unsteady government.
President ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: