Essays on Vietnam War

Although the failure of the US in Vietnam can be partially due to the clever strategies of the North Vietnamese armies and the guerrilla tactics that they employed to counter those of Technology employed by the far more advanced American Army. The Vietnamese army used...

Lasting for 20 years (1955-1975), the Vietnam War, as bloody as any other wars, took away more than 2 million lives, in which many of them were civilians. 3 million were wounded, and hundreds of thousands of children were left orphans. The war ruined both...

The Vietnam War was the most publicized war during its era; moreover this was the most unpopular war to hit the United States. All over the country riots began to raise, anti-war movement spread all over the states begging to stop the war and chaos...

This article is about a journalist who wrote about the Vietnam war and how effective the peace movements were. Tom Hayden talks about how his involvement of spreading anti-war news caused his family to basically disowned him and how differently he was treated all over...

Before the Vietnam War The Southeast Asian country of Vietnam had been under French control since the 1800’s and went through French rule. Later during World War 2 the Japanese invaded Vietnam and around the same time the Vietnamese political leader by the name of...

The Vietnam War changed the United States and its people forever. Lasting from 1955 to 1973, the Vietnam War took on the role as the longest battle in America’s history. For the first time, the United States didn’t accomplish its main goal when entering the...

Vietnam Essay Before the Cold War, the majority of Vietnam was under French rule. Therefore, Vietnam had no established government, and was a colony. Of course, there was a lot of French influence. A influence that the French brought with them was Roman Catholicism, which...

The Vietnam War was an unjustified war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam. Three million, four hundred thousand soldiers and civilians alike, died during the 20 year period of brutal war. America intervened for seemingly anemic reasons but most of the sources point to the...

“On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien thoroughly illustrates the emotional burdens of war, especially the fear and shame felt by many men who were forcibly drafted into the Vietnam War. When examining this text using a formalist perspective, through the usage of the plot,...

Some claim the domino theory was the key reason for the US intervention in Asia as it halted communist progress, The Domino Theory was the belief that communism was spread from one nation to its neighbours and so on. It was based on an analogy...

Identification and Evaluation of Sources For this particular essay, there will be four principle sources used to understand the relationship between the media and the events that took place during the course of the Vietnam War. The first source will be Reporting Vietnam: Media &...

Have you ever wondered if the effects of the Vietnam War Movement help shape and influence the generation we are today? The Civil War Activist’s during the Vietnam war protests played a significant part in America’s history. The Activists banded together to stop the social...

The Vietnam War certainly left a distaste in the lives of many who have been affected by the war; scholars have become increasingly interested in the interaction between war and public opinion. There have been many scholarly works published on the Vietnam War, but the...

I’ve chosen the topic of the Vietnam war for the basis of my last paper of this semester. I chose this topic purely out of curiosity and interest in wanting to learn more about why America was involved in the Vietnam war and how it...

Abstract & Argument Sino-Vietnamese war erupted in 1979, which only lasted for 27 days but the conflict between People’s republic of China (PRC) and Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) dragged on for more than ten years. The invasion of Cambodia by the Vietnamese was the...

“Concentrate on other things, try to forget about it” (206), Vietnam Veteran John Wade explains. This simple tactic of forgetting the horrors and trying to push away bad memories has often been employed among veterans from many wars. Accordingly, O’Brien integrates this simple motif of...

Evaluate the strategy used by R. Nixon in Vietnam Richard Nixon’s primary strategy in Vietnam was a method deemed “Vietnamization” in which would have American forces train and specialize the South Vietnamese army. In doing so, American forces would not have to participate in a...

The Vietnam War Mark Lawrence Atwood is presently Director of graduate studies at the Clements centre for national security in Austin at the University of Texas. An associate professor of history and distinguished fellow at the Roberts Strauss centre for international law and security. Mark...

In the abstract of this article, we are made to understand that the idealism of Josiah Royce is informed by the criticism of George Holmes. The free and independent selves are featured in the absolute idealism as reflected by Josiah Royce. His facts and views...

On April 22, 1971, in Washington, D.C., John Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chaired by Senator William Fulbright in reply to legislative hearings on proposals relating to ending the Vietnam War. John Kerry was a former Navy lieutenant in Vietnam. During his...

Dr. Martin Luther King, a remarkable man who was notoriously known for speaking out against society’s problems, once addressed a crowd of hundreds about the problems the Vietnam War created. King delivered the speech on April 4, 1967, with intentions of stopping what the government...

Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War connects the tragedy of wartime to the loss of youth and love. It is the story of an idealist named Kien and his first love, Phuong, and how the dramatic events of war caused their pure love to diminish...

Mark Lawrence Atwood is presently Director of graduate studies at the Clements centre for national security in Austin at the University of Texas. An associate professor of history and distinguished fellow at the Roberts Strauss centre for international law and security. Mark Atwood received his...

Representations of Americans Relating to Vietnam War As the Vietnam War progressed, the American military was sent to aid in preventing the spread of communism. In Amy Phan’s collection of short stories We Should Never Meet, many Americans view their flying to South Vietnam to...

The United States has remained a long-standing military and economic power throughout its 200+ years of history, and has contributed its efforts into exporting democracy and helping other nations abroad establish democratic governments after their own decentralized and destabilized forms of government have collapsed. After...

To what extent do you agree with Gareth Porter (historian & journalist) who argues that the primary goal of the United States’ policy in Asia was NOT containing communism in Southeast Asia (Vietnam) or stopping “falling dominos,” but rather keeping steady pressure on China. (Porter,...

The quagmire theory analyzes the root of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It advocates that American troops and leaders had involuntary and acidentally led the US into the Vietnam War. Although, This was simply a war we couldn’t win. At the time...

Introduction The above question is arguably key in understanding of the Vietnam War, along with its side-effects in neighboring Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines and Indonesia. These cases may help one familiarize themselves with the broader theme of the Cold War and its impact on the...