A Bunch Of Vietnam Questions?

Question

I have to write up a small paragraph on each of the following topics

1. Gulf of Tonkin Incident

2. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

3. Operation Rolling Thunder

4. The Anti-War Movement in America

5 Tet Offensive

6. The Nixon Years and Vietnamization

7. The Incident at Kent State University

8. Paris Peace Agreement

9. Nature and Extent oF Guerrilla Warfare With Special Attention to the Vietcong


The assignment was to Identify and State the Significance of the topics


Please feel free to answer one, or a few ☻.


Also, if you could identify the one you choose to do by its number, that would be great!


Thanks everyone! ☺☻

Answer 1

read"the ten tousand day war" it's all there.........

Answer 2

1. North Vietnamese attacks against the U.S.S Maddox and Turner Joy in 1964. August 2nd probably happened, August 4th is probably an invented incident concocted by the Johnson adminstration (just like Bush concocted the WMD to invade Iraq) to justify going to war in SVN. We already had military advisors there, but these events gave a provocation necessary to commit large forces. Incidentally, if you live near Seattle, you can visit the Turner Joy.
2. The resolution granting Johnson the right to commit forces.
3. An aviation effort to bomb the heck out of NV over a three year period, 1965 to 1968. Don't confuse with Operation Linebacker, the resumption of bombing the North in 1972. That action probably compelled Giap to agree to the Paris Peace Process.
4. People got sick of our involvement in a war that was gradually and correctly seen as unwinnable.
5. 1968 New Year offensive conducted by the VC and NVA. This was a tactical military defeat for the NVA/VC (but a psychological victory for the NVA/VC), and a blow against the American public that solidified public opinion against the Administration and the war. For too long, our generals and the administration said they were defeating the NV/VC and that there was "light at the end of the tunnel." The light turned out to be a train in the form of a surprise offensive.
6. Nixon thought he could win too, but in the end he had to hand over the war to the SVN units. Coincidentally, Bush 43 has to do the same thing in Iraq.
7. Protesters clashed with the National Guard who opened fire killing several students.
8. "Peace in our time." The face saving gesture that allowed Nixon to get out of Vietnam. Kissinger engineered it.
9. Guerilla war is something of a specialty for me. However, it is the most complicated to answer in a short bite. Suffice to say, a portion of the SV population did not like their government. They organized into unconventional units and fought the government, killed American soldiers, and killed their own population in order to destabilize the government of SVN so they could take over. In the end, their campaign seemed to have worked since we had to leave and they stayed. Tet helped to achieve some of their goals.
Regards

Answer 3

I would agree with the "ten thousand day war" I think I was there for it.
I was there through two tours of duty in '66 and '67 in the Northern highlands with the Hmong, wounded twice.

As far as the Viet Cong, we just tried to survive, we couldn't win, only followed orders, that's the humiliating part. We took a hill, then gave it back, then took the hill again, then gave it back again. This went on constantly until one day, after I left, the guys were saying, "no more" and refused to go out on "combat shorties" or "Patrols" and, get shot up for nothing, they started rebelling. There were more instances of "fragging" then "sniping your own officers" then any other war.
I turned down the offer of second lieutenant over this. We were loosing them faster then the enemy.