anyone help!!!?

Question

can anyone plz tell me a detailed explanation of the vietnam war???i'm having difficulty by reading wat sites like wikipedia say.

Answer 1

basically its when the prez of US in the 60s wanted the commies out of SV (south viet.), it turns out that ii was none of the US's business to get involved w/ foreign affairs, but did anyways.
but before our boys got there the NV's were tryin to unit V under communism because of their close ties w/ china and USSR, but the US didnt let that happen, they assisted SV soldiers to fight off the NV invaders.The chief cause of the war was the failure of Vietnamese nationalists, in the form of the Viet Minh, to gain control of southern Vietnam both during and after their struggle for independence from France in the First Indochina War of 1946–54.
The U.S., in particular, deployed large numbers of military personnel to South Vietnam between 1954 and 1973. U.S. military advisors first became involved in Vietnam as early as 1950, when they began to assist French colonial forces. In 1956, these advisors assumed full responsibility for training the Army of the Republic of Vietnam or ARVN. Large numbers of American combat troops began to arrive in 1965. The last American troops left the country on April 30, 1975.[2]

At various stages the conflict involved clashes between small units patrolling the mountains and jungles, guerrilla attacks in the villages and cities, and finally, large-scale conventional battles. U.S. aircraft also conducted substantial aerial bombing campaigns, targeting both logistical networks and the cities and transportation arteries of North Vietnam. Large quantities of chemical defoliants were also sprayed from the air in an effort to reduce the cover available to enemy combatants.

The Vietnam War was finally concluded on 30 April 1975, with the fall of the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces. The war claimed between 2 and 5.7 million Southeast Asian lives,[3] a large number of whom were civilians.

Answer 2

I took a class in college. The instructor was an expert on Viet Nam. It took 6 weeks for us to review it all. I'm 44 and still don't understand it. Do some research with some books at your local public library. GOOD LUCK. The United States should have never gotten involved, but I think the mind set of the country in the late 1950s and early 1960s was we didn't want the commie to take over. Parents told me that. So did a few vets.

Answer 3

I can tell you what I know. I think we went the Vietnam to fight communists. The war started in 1965 and ended in 1975. Lyndon Johnson started it and Gerald Ford ended it. John F. Kennedy tried to stop it, but he was assassinated and Johnson wanted it.

If John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas on 11/22/1963, there would not have been a Vietnam War. He was trying to stop it before it begun.

President Kennedy was one of the best Presidents this country ever had. If it wasn't for him, none of us wouldn't exist today. Cuba was going to drop a bomb on us back in 1962. Kennedy stopped it and he became a hero.

Answer 4

Here is a good explanation.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_causes_of_the_Vietnam_War

I was taught in school about the Domino Effect. My father fought in WW II and agreed with that theory. It was to prevent communism from spreading to the US eventually. That was the theory. Not everyone agreed with it. Thus there were protests, etc.

Answer 5

Here is a very good link about the Vietnam conflict.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index.html

Answer 6

I'd like to help, but I think that there are better history sites out there for you...try googling it...best of luck

Answer 7

http://www.encyclopedia.com/SearchResults.aspx?Q=vietnam%20war

try this.............type in Vietnam war and that should help. Otherwise it's too long to explain.

Answer 8

the french left, u.s. stepped in, more people killed, nixon made a fool of himself, more people killed, u.s. left more people killed.
ask jane fonda, she was there

Answer 9

I think violation notice gave it all and more.

Answer 10

U.S is the loser!!