Vietnam War?

Question

I have a MASSIVE project due in 2 months, and my partner and I have asked some students and teachers to write down questions about the Vietnam War. All my partner and I need is to answer the following questions below . . . if anyone would be so kind as to help us out . . . that would mean the WORLD to us! Please try to answer as many questions as you can . . . THANX GUYZZ! . . .

~*the most importan questions that people have asked are stated below*~



1) Who won the Vietnam War? ~~Americans~~or~~Vietnamese~~

2) Who started the war?
~~Americans~~or~~Vietnamese~~

3) When did the war start? (a specific date, please!)

4) When did the Vietnam War end? (also, a specific date, please!)

5) What caused the Vietnam War?

6) About how many total survivers were there in the Vietnam War? (American surviver + Vietnamese survivers=total survivers)

7) About how many people died in the war? (total people of Americans and Vietnamese)

Answer 1

1. The Americans won every military battle - but lost the political war.
2. The Vietnamese started the war by going to with the French back in 1946 to free themselves of French colonial rule. The Americans supported the French financially, and when the French lost in 1954, American sent in advisors in the early 1960s, and military aid to the newly-created "republic of Vietnam (or South Vietnam).
3. There was no official declaration of war - the war changed from the Americans supporting the French to supporting South Vietnam, to American military advisors being killed and killing Vietnamese. American groud troops (Marines) landed in 1965, but the war was well under way by then. No specific date.
4. The war largely came to an end on April 30, 1975, when the North defeated the South, and the country was unified under communist rule.
5. Two things caused the Vietnamese War - Vietnam's desire to be a unified, and independent country, and America's desire to not see all of Asia become communist countries. It was the Cold War, the Americans vs the Russians (and Chinese).
6. I cannot give you statistics for the number of SURVIVORS.
7. America's losses were well over 58,000. The Vietnamese lost many more, an estimate would be 2 million (or more).

Answer 2

1. Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Socialists won the war.
2. The war was started by the N. Vietnamese, but the issue was set up by the First Indochina war fought by France and Vietnam.
3. The war started in January 1959 when the North issued a secret declaration authorizing the use of force against S. Vietnam.
4. The Vietnam war ended on 30 April 1975 when the last US troops evacuated Saigon.
5. The Vietnam war was caused by the failure of the 4th Republic of France to adequately deal with their colonial holdings in S.E. Asia and the further involvement of the United States which propped up an unpopular regime in S. Vietnam to counter the spread of Communism.
6. Impossible to tell.
7. Americans suffered troop losses around 58,000. The number of Vietnamese deaths has long been in contention, but modest estimates place it around 2 million.

Answer 3

find out here The Vietnam War was a military conflict in present day Vietnam occurring from 1959 to April 30, 1975. The conflict was a successful effort by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV or North Vietnam) and the indigenous National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, (also known as the Việt Cộng, or more informally as the "Charlie", "VC" or "Cong") to unify Vietnam as a communist state, defeating the South Vietnamese Republic of Vietnam (RVN). To a degree, the Vietnam War was a "proxy war" between the U.S. and its Western allies on the side of the RVN, with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China supporting the DRV on the other. As a result of this it is often considered part of the Cold War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

Answer 4

To answer question number 1 is a bit difficult, but I would say that the NORTH Vietnamese won.

~In December 1974, the Democratic majority in Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974, which cut off all military funding to the South Vietnamese government.

~After that, the North Vietnamese Army (Communist) took control of the Northern part of the country. They didn't get the whole country, but they got a big piece of it!

Question # 2:

~ National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, (also known as the Việt Cộng, or more informally as the "Charlie", "VC" or "Cong") to unify Vietnam as a communist state. Today their home is North Vietnam.

Question #3:
America’s involvement started in 1954
But the war had actually before that! You have to read the whole story at the link below.

#4
~Late April of 1975

#5
~Power struggle between democracy and communism

#6 Nobody ever counts the survivors!

#7
~From the United States entry into the Vietnam War to its withdraw in 1972; the United States military experienced a death toll of more than 50,000 troops. The estimated South Vietnamese death toll totaled more than 400,000 troops, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese combined total was over 900,000 Kia's.

Answer 5

1. The Vietnamese people

2. The US

3. August 7, 1964 with the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution

4. April 30, 1975

5. The causes are too many to name.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Conflict for more info

6. Unknown

7. between 58,000 and 60,000 Americans. Millions of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians.

Answer 6

1, Americans won, BUT we lost
2, American went on request from the Vietnamese government.
3, Not sure on the exact date
4, May 1, 1975
6, I don't think this can be answered.
7, I don't think this can be answered either.

Now there are many books that you can get on the Viet Nam war. Also if you contact your local Veterans Agent he or she may be able to give you some answers. Veterans agent can be located either at your city/town hall, or through the Department of Veterans Affairs. Good Luck I hope you score well, And don't forget to mention how JANE FONDA SUCKS big time for what she did to our Vets during the Vietname War.

Answer 7

The war was initially a war of independence from France. A germain question to ask is how did the war evolved from a war of independence to a war for communism?