The Vietnam War

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The Vietnam War

• By Erik Brown

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58,479 American soldiers died during the Vietnam
War
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Timeline
The war leading up to this took place at about
the same time as the Korean War
Race to the moon
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What Happened?

• Ho Chi Minh declared North Vietnam a communist
  state after forcing French colonists out in the
  early 1950s.
• Ho Chin Minh began a campaign to unify North
• and South Vietnam into a single communist state.
• The US, fearing that a communist South Vietnam
• would result in the spread of communism through
• all Asian countries, sent troops into Vietnam.
• The war lasted 10 years, and a total of about
• 5.5 million people died, both American and
• Vietnamese, as a result of the war. (Google
  Answers)

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Ho Chi Minh
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Important People
Ho Chi Minh- Leader of the Communist North
Vietnam, began campaign to unify Vietnam in 1955,
successfully unified vietnam 20 years later (1975)
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www.raf.mod.uk/history/ line1944.html
Ngo Dinh Diem- Leader of the South Republic of
Vietnam, but being a devout Christian, he was
very unpopular among the Buddhist majority
Dwight D. Eisenhower- President of United States
in the 1950s, emphasized the Domino Effect and
was fist president to sent military advisors into
Vietnam.
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Importance of the Vietnam War

• By far the most brutal and fatal battle of the
  Cold War
• Was an indirect battle between USA and USSR.
• USA believed that if
• South Vietnam became Communist,
• then all of Asia would fall to
• Communist rule. This was called
• the Domino Effect.
• The spread of Communism
• to south Asian countries
• was halted by the USAs
• commitment in Vietnam (vietnam.info)

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A Calvin and Hobbes view of War
This portrays all wars as pointless because in
war there is never really a winner
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Works Cited

• Episode 11 Vietnam. CNN. 17 May
  2004lthttp//www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episode
  s/11/gt. GoogleAnswers. 25 Apr. 2002. Google.com.
  19 May 2004lthttp//answers.google.com/answers/thr
  eadview?id5096gt.
• Leuhusen, Peter. The Vietnam War. Digifactory.
  18 May 2004lthttp//americanhistory.about.com/gi/d
  ynamic/offsite.htm?sitehttp3A2F2Fwww.vietnamp
  ix.com2Fintro2.htmgt.
• Vietnam War. 2003. Otherground, LLC and
  Vietnam-War.info. 17 May 2004lthttp//www.vietnam-
  war.info/myths/gt.
• Vietnam War Timeline. Modern American Poetry. 18
  May 2004lthttp//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam
  /timeline.htmgt.