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| How did the Vietnam War start? How
did it end? |
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| It all started out in the late 1950's
and ended in 1975. |
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| The leader Ho Chi Minh lead the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945-1969. a brief summary of
his life during this strategic war. He was born in Nguyen Sinh
Cung. In his town he was known as "Uncle Ho," he lived in
England and France from 1915 to 1923. |
| In 1919, "Uncle Ho" petitioned
for the powers at Versailles peace talks for the equal rights in
Indochina. Of course with a busy life he moved to Hong Kong where he
kept a busy life there and found the Indochinese Communist party.
Then he moved and returned to Vietnam in 1941 and then declared the
nations independence from France. It all ended and then "Uncle
Ho" died in 1969. |
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| In 1975, North Vietnamese troops and
tanks set fire and converged on Saigon. In January 1973, President
Richard Nixon from the White House convinced the Thieu-Ky regime in
Saiegon that they would not abandon the GVN if they signed onto the peace
accord. |
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| The U.S. sent out media critism of the
war and the antiwar activism in America as under the will of the U.S.
government to continue fighting, others citied the restrictions placed by
civilian politicians on the military's operations or, conversly, blamed by
U.S. military chiefs for not providing civilian leaders with sound
stragety for a great victory at war. |
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| In December 1961, President Kennedy sent
a team to Vietnam to report on conditions in the south and to asses
future. |
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| Then Nixon expanded air and ground
operations into Cambodia and Laos in attempts to block enemy supply routes
along Vietnams borders. |
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| The Vietnam War brought an end to the
domestic consensus that had sustained the U.S. cold war policies since the
World War II and that they formed the basis for the federal
governments authority since the sweeping expansion of that authority under
Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
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| The tremendous enemy of offensive at the
lunar new year decimated the Viet Cong and failed to topple the
Saigon government but led to the beginning of Americas military
withdrawal from Vietnam. |
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| Richard Nixon's program of troop
pull-outs, stepped up bombing and huge arms shipments to Saigon changed
the war and left GLS wondering which of them would be the last to die in
Vietnam. |
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| South Vietnamese leaders belived that
America would never let them go down to defeat a belief that died as North
Vietnamese tanks smashed into Saigon on April 30th, 1975, and the long war
endedwith South Vietnams surrender. |
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| Here is a timeline that refers through
the years of1945-1947: |
| 1945-
*Ho Chi Minh creates provisional government , Ho
declares war on independence |
| *British forces land in Saigon, Return
authority to French. |
| *1st America dies in Vietnam |
| *Roosevelt Dies |
| *U.S. Drops atomic bombs on Japan |
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| 1946-
*French and Vietnam reach accord |
| *negotiations between French and Vietnam
breakdown |
| *Indochina war begins |
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| 1947- |
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| *Vietminh moves north of Hanoi |
| *Valley Fails to defeat Vietminh |
| *Jackie Robinson signs with Brooklyn
Dodgers |
| *Marshall plan announced |
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| This is a poem to this girls dad during
the war: |
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| Do you know how i feel ashamed
For what you did to me in vain
Do you know i do not place blame
For i feel I too, tortured you
Do you know i feel sorry for you
For what life has thrown at you
Do you know why i ran to you
Even after all the pain you put me through
Not to stop the bullet from reaching you
I ran so it would pierce me too
Do you know why i continue to write to you
Even though your long past gone
Why its because when you raped me
You became a part of me
God help me but it's true
I take comfort in writing to you
- Laura A.
The
War was a long and hard war, some people survived and some died, but this
war will be in our memory forever.
-
Megan Brooke Queen
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The end of the
Vietnam War!
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