Does anyone Know anything about Vietnam?

Question

I need to interview someone for my class but everyone i have knows nothing and i know you guys are smart so here are the questions

1)Where is Vietnam? "Be specific"
2)What was the Vietnam War about?
3)Who were the 2 sides in the War?
4)What are the lessons to be learned from the war?
5)Is the Vietnamese War related to the War in Iraq in any way?"explain"
6)Do you think there is anything in our past "foreign affairs" and Vietnam
that could help us understand the war in Iraq and that could have prevented
us from going to war in Iraq?

Answer 1

1) Vietnam is in the Far East, South of China, bordered by Cambodia and Laos.

2)The Vietnam war was a proxy war of the Cold War. The Western powers were fighting the spread of Communism around the world. The two split parts of Vietnam went to war over that issue.

3) North Vietnam - Communist, and South Vietnam - Free.

4)Don't let the press run the war. Don't underestimate your enemy's resourcefulness. Lot's of lessons.

5) The way the two are alike is in the fact that they are in essence both proxy wars. We are in Iraq as part of the was on terror in the same way we were in Vietnam to fight the cold war.

6)The situation between the two is too much divergent for us to say that one should have taught us not to go into the other. Very different situations.
People who like to compare the two different wars are using a tactic of unfavorable comparisons. They want us to pull out of Iraq like we did in Vietnam.

Answer 2

1 - Southeast Asia

2 - Apparently to stop the spread of Communism

3 - America and Vietnamese Guerrillas { supplied by Russia }

4 - Never base war on a lie , the fact is the lie that the war was about stopping Communism continues . The war was started when it was announced Vietnam attacked a US ship and the Gulf of Tonkin Act was passed . But that's nonsense and Mr. McNamara has even gone public to say it never happened and went so far to say the Vietnamese didn't shoot at the US , even while being fired upon !

5 - Yes , both based on lies and resulted in death and destruction .

6 - Yes , if the people stopped believing nonsense the US wouldn't be in the problems it is in currently . Also most Americans haven't a clue what war is , they believe Iraq is a magical fantasy land where daisy's bloom and terrorists are captured and put in cells with air conditioning - This of course is nonsense .

Answer 3

This struggle is declared by potential of the President and voted on by potential of Congress. Vietnam grow to be a declared struggle in easy terms by potential of the President. Congress then did no longer enable the armed forces to salary struggle and now it style of feels like while they gave the President the potential to salary struggle they want to micro handle it and get rid of the militarys skill to combat it. Then like now the media does not document the certainty in easy terms the flaws that are executed incorrect! So in someways the respond isn't any the U.S. has no longer discovered. maximum folk of the folk in Vietnam did no longer want the NVA to win yet because of the lies interior the click and the certainty that the congress refused to allow the armed forces to win the folk in Vietnam lost each and every thing.

Answer 4

1. it's located in Southeast Asia ( any clue where thats at ?)

2. read a history book
3. refer to answer 2
4. refer to answer 2
5. your joking right
6. refer to answer 5

Answer 5

OK, here ya go.
1. To find Vietnam, get a globe or a huge map of Asia. Follow the Chinese coast south until you reach the gulf of Tonkin. That coast is Vietnam.
2. From1853 to 1955, Vietnam was a French colony and part of the three states that made up French Indo-China, they are Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
During World War Two, the Japanese invaded and conquered French Indo-China. The United States recruited and trained guerrillas to fight the Japanese.
After World War two the Vietnamese wanted independence from France, France refused. Vietnam and the rest of French Indo-China have a lot of rubber trees and that would cost France a lot of money to lose that resource.
During this time, the United States was at odds against the Communist Chinese who had recently won a revolution in China and the Soviet Union.
Some Vietnamese conducted a revolution against the French
and the Soviet Union and China supplied them with arms and ammunition. They eventually won the war because they won a major battle called "The Siege of Dien bien phu".
The French agreed to leave Vietnam and a set of accords was designated to establish rule by the Vietnamese. Some Vietnamese were supportive of a French style Democracy and some supported a Soviet union style communist state,
Vietnam was divided and the communist got the north and the liberals got the south. There was supposed to be an election to rejoin the country under one leadership in 1959 but the south rejected it because communists are NOT democratic.
This led to a guerrilla war waged against the south by the communists. South Vietnam or better known as RVN for Republic of Vietnam was having difficulty getting a Democracy together. The RVN Military staged a coup against the President No din Diem and his brother. Both were assassinated in the coup. The RVN military took over government. This occurred many times until 1968 when they finally had an election and Nguyen van Thieu (Win-van too)
was elected President.
President Kennedy sent military advisors from the US to help the South Vietnamese fight the communists. After President Kennedy was assasinated his sucessor President Johnson sent more troops in. In 1964, there was a supposed attack on two American cruisers in international waters in the gulf of tonkin. This is very disputed, some say it was staged others that it was not staged. At about the same time, the Vietnames Communists (VC) launched a rocket and mortar attack on a military compound at Pleiku (Play-Koo) and killed some American advisors.
President Johnson sent in hundreds of thousands of American troops and American airplanes began bombing North Vietnam and North Vietnamese communist soldiers in south Vietnam. The war escalated (got bigger) and the US was now in the fight. The Chinese and the Russians sent their troops but only as advisors and pilots for Jets.
Many American airplanes were shot down over North Vietnam and many of the aircrew were taken prisoner. Current Senator from Arizona John McCain was one of them.
A growing anti-war sentiment began in the United States, much like the anti-war movement against the current war in Iraq. Many Democrats turned against the war even though President Johnson was a Democrat.
In the fall of 1967 the Communist forces began infiltrating into South Vietnam and set up secret bases, usually underground in tunnels. They stocked up on supplies and prepared for a surprise attack on American and South Vietnamese troops.
In late January of 1968 they attacked all over south Vietnam.
They surrounded two Marine bases on hill tops overlooking the border between North and South Vietnam called Khe San (Kay-Son) and Con Thien (Kon-tee- en). They also captured the city of Hue (Hoo-Way). It took about four months but the South Vietnamese and American troops delivered a crushing defeat on the North Vietnames and VC.
This wasn't what the press reported. The attack became known as the Tet Offensive. The American press told the American people at home that the war could not be won and that our side was losing. This really aggravated the anti-war movement here in the US leading to many riots. In reality, the communists at first wanted to give up and stop the war but the reaction of the American press and the anti-war protestors convinced them not to give up.
The war continued until 1973 when Dr. Henry Kissinger and Lee duc Tho signed a peace treaty in Paris. The United States withdrew and South Vietnam was a sovereign democratic state. Two years later the communists attacked the south again with a massive conventional millitary assault and defeated the Democratic RVN in April of 1975. Then President Gerald Ford wanted to send military support to help the RVN but the Democrats controlling Congress blocked it.

4. Lessons learned, Never trust a communist, protesting the war supports the enemy, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather are traitors, the Democrats support communists, the US military is strong but the majority of the American people are weak.

5. the only similarity between the current war in Iraq and the war in Vietnam is the anti-war protestors and Democrats at home supporting the enemy our troops are fighting.

6. During the greater Cold War in which the Vietnam war was a part of the US had to ally itself with many rotten dictators to counter the communists. Saddam Hussein played both sides. He wasn't really on our side at anytime but he did conduct a war against the Iranians which was a good thing. In 1979 the Iranians went nuts and came up with this islamic revolution. They became a threat to the whole oil region. The Soviet Union supplied the majority of the equipment and supplies the Iraqis used then.
The United States was forced out of our isolation in 1917 by World War One, then again for World War Two and then we had to stay for the Cold War and now these islamic nut cases.
Democratic states have a long history of being peaceful, to one another. The logic is, if all the countries of the world were Democratic, we would have a peaceful planet. We should attack and force any remaining non-democratic country to become democratic and we will probably have a peaceful world for future generations.
(Am I long winded or what!)

Answer 6

"everyone i have knows nothing " ??????