An introduction to the Vietnam War 1.pdf

Intro to the Vietnam War

1. The Vietnam
War
FATIMA JURADO
&
LEZLY ONTIVEROS

2. What was the Vietnam
War and why did it
break out?
Between 1954 and 1975 there was an armed
conflict between the communist government of
North Vietnam and the Western countries allied
with South Vietnam, which developed during the
Cold War.

3. What were the origins
of the Vietnam War?
The conflict had its origins in the Indochina wars
of the 1940s and 1950s, when Vietnamese leader
Ho Chi Minh confronted the colonial rule of
Japan, first, and then France. The Viet Minh, the
League for the Independence of Vietnam, was the
army that was inspired by the Soviet Union and
China to, for eight years, confront the French
army in search of its independence.

4. While North Vietnam attempted to unify the
entire country under a single communist regime
inspired by the Soviet and Chinese experience,
the South Vietnamese government struggled to
preserve a system more closely aligned with the
West, primarily the United States, Britannica
claims.
American President Dwight Eisenhower initiated
an assistance program to South Vietnam. Both the
Soviet Union and China sent weapons, supplies,
and war advisors to North Vietnam, who in turn
provided support, political direction, and regular
combat troops. While the United States sent more
than 550,000 American soldiers to the conflict
zone to serve South Vietnam.
What was the center of the conflict
in the Vietnam War?

5. Towards the end of 1960, North Vietnam already
had the formation of the National Liberation
Front (NLF) and the Vietcong, mass political
organizations with their own army that sought to
end the Diem regime in the country.
The situation escalated to such a point that, in
1961, the then president of the United States, John
Kennedy, chose to expand the military aid
program due to fear that the “domino theory”
would work in Vietnam and spread to the rest of
the country. Asia.
What was the
Viet Cong?

6. Who won the
Vietnam War?
While the withdrawal of North American troops
was taken as a defeat, their low number of
casualties and the fact that most of the battles
were won by the United States, are taken as a
victory in the war.
North and South Vietnam united under a
communist flag in July 1976. Internal unrest and
the financial cost of the war made peace and the
withdrawal of troops a necessity, not a choice.

7. How many people died in
the Vietnam War?
A total of 2 million civilian deaths were recorded on both sides. In addition to
the death of 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters.
On the part of the United States, its army estimates between 200,000 and
250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died in combat and a total of 58,300 soldiers
from the North American army.
Added to the list are other countries that fought for South Vietnam: 4,000
South Korean soldiers killed in combat, around 350 from Thailand, more than
500 soldiers from Australia and 36 soldiers from New Zealand.

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