i am doing a paper for my U.S history class.need some help on vietnam?

Question

you are to take part of a young soldier writing a letter home to a loved one.in your letter incude.

* being in the war.
*how the war is being conducted by the generals and the president.
* the protestors in the u.s
*the viet cong
*how you are coping witht he problems you are facing in the war.

thats my assignment, i have wrote 2 paragraphs but need more help about the war being conduted by the prsident and the viet cong.

please and thanks.

Answer 1

Try these links:
http://www.vietnampix.com/
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/
http://www.vietnamwar.com/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietnam.html
http://www.multied.com/vietnam/
http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/vietnam.htm
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/

Answer 2

You wrote two whole paragraphs? The war that was engaged in by Lyndon Johnson was somewhat different than that of Richard Nixon. LBJ got involved by continuing "Operation Ranchhand" in 1964 and the Tonkin Gulf incident. In 1968 things pretty much ended for LBJ with the Tet Offensive. Nixon, well him and Kissinger realized the war could not be won. By the time Nixon was in office support for the war was poor. Nixon wanted "peace with honor" and decided changes had to be made. Among them was something called vietnamization, which was to turn the war over to the South Vietnamese. Generally, things went from bad to worse from 1964 to 1973.

The vietcong, they were guerilla fighters engaged in primarily hit and run. The communist leadership in the north directed their activities. You couldn't tell them apart from the regular populace. They were good fighters and could not be beaten; they would never give up. We killed way more of them, but they kept coming. Sound familiar?

What happened in Vietnam 40 years ago is happening again. Know your history.

Answer 3

ok.. the war as conducted by the US was essentially trying to kill bugs with a shotgun but only outside in the back yard.

the war as operated by the viet cong was blend in with everyone and the countryside, hide amongst (or under) them, pop up and shoot at the white guys.

in a way, the viet cong conducted their war in a fashion simiar to the way some revolutionary generals ran their show back in 1776.