What can you tell me about the vietnam war?? anythingg! please include your sources, sites, links, etc; and please no wikipedia
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2007-02-03 08:22:22 · 3 answers · asked by priyankaaaaa 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Vietnam war started during the midst of JFK's Presidency and ended with bitterly with the Ford Administration. To this day, other than we sent troops to protect South Vietnam from forcible Communist (Viet Cong) control, we to this day suspect other military covert reasons exist as to the real reason for the war in the first place.
Young 18 year old boys got drafted, sent out to fight in the jungles....and either died a horrific war death or came back literally in permanently scarred pieces--psychological, physical or both; they came home forever changed.
Dedicated and sometimes violently opposed by the "Hippie" social / "revolutionary" movement, the Vietnam War Draft resistance was widespread, causing many men destined for war to bolt run across borders of Mexico and/or Canada as fugitives. Others opted for college "deferrment", a popular choice for our nation's affluent and politically groomed for elected office.
Some war protesters even bravely faced jail/prison time in their refusals as "concienscous objectors", citing conflicts with personal religious beliefs.
Through such vocal and embittered protests, Vietnam War amplified a very real sweeping social movement/culture in facets of lifestyle, clothing fashion and music.
While veterans of this 'meat grinder' war will quickly tell you, Vietnam was the first 'dirty' war our troops faced, for the enemy didn't always (actually quite rarely) fight in their country's military uniform. So even in South Vietnam during the war, US troops faced being literally surrounded by potential sympatheic Viet Cong (VC). In many horrific cases, US troops were killed by approaching children, who were fitted with belts containing C4 explosive.
We simply could not achieve victory, fighting in a jungle theather so well known by the enemy. Vietnam War's bitter end came in mid 1975 with the fall of Siagon. By war's end, the death toll reached over 200 thousand.
2007-02-03 08:47:55 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Wizard 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Darling, we come to this site to help students. But we simply cannot cannot answer a question this broad. You could use every search engine and still only scratch the surface of this topic. A small library would be needed to hold all the books on Vietnam, its characters, its ramifiications on US society, the way it forever altered foreign policy, etc. I hope you have good luck...
2007-02-03 22:50:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look on Google.com
2007-02-03 16:38:17 · answer #3 · answered by Melissa :) 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋