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... After a decade of war that ravaged a nation, the disastrous conflict known to Americans as the Vietnam War, and to Vietnamese as the American War, had ended. ...
Even though the Cold War between the United States and the United Soviet Socialist Republics dominated news headlines of the post-1945 world, another significant change in the international power structure took place at the same time: the end of Europes five-century reign over the non-European world.
The Vietnam War was the result of Frances inability to keep in check nationalist movements in French Indochina as it struggled to regain its colonial authority after the Second World War. ... In 1957 Communist rebels, the Viet Cong, began a terror campaign in South Vietnam. Supported by the government of North Vietnam and later by North Vietnamese troops, their goal was to overthrow the anti-communist government in the South (Luong).
The United States intervention in Vietnam began during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration, which sent the US military to South Vietnam. ... Kennedy decided to commit American support troops to South Vietnam. ... Congress responded with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, expressing support for "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression the President might take to resist armed attacks against US forces and prevent further aggression” (Public Papers). ... The anti-Vietnam War movement quickly grew as television and press coverage graphically showed the suffering of both civilians and servicemen. ... America during the Vietnam War was a nation divided. Protests in New York City in 1965 brought over twenty-five demonstrators opposing the United States’s involvement in Vietnam.
Approximate Word count = 1364
Approximate Pages = 5.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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