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How does the war connects to the present day?

It was the first war to come into American living rooms nightly, and the only conflict that ended in defeat for American arms. Some 500,000 of the 3 million troops who served in Vietnam suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, and rates of divorce, suicide, alcoholism and drug addiction. It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths.

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How this surrogate/proxy war is a part of the larger Cold War?

The war proxy/surrogate was like the US and Soviet Union coming and helping with the fight. Though on different sides, they both had the same general idea of coming in and helping/ letting vietnam use their weapon and resources. Surrogate was also apart, for when the US and the Soviet Union come to help on half of the pasted/people who can't represent.

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Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year. The US defeated communist forces during most of Vietnam's War. The war killed an estimated of 2 million Vietnamese civilians, 1.3 million troops. America dropped 8 million tons of bombs between 1965 and 1973. It affected the US economy

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6 Events That Laid the Groundwork for the Vietnam War
"6 Events That Laid The Groundwork For The Vietnam War". HISTORY, 2022, https://www.history.com/news/vietnam-war-origins-events. Accessed 20 Apr 2022.

Vietnam War | Facts, Summary, Years, Timeline, Casualties, Combatants, & Facts
"Vietnam War | Facts, Summary, Years, Timeline, Casualties, Combatants, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica, 2022, https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War. Accessed 20 Apr 2022.

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Post 6: : Create a timeline of 5 significant events in the Vietnam War.  Explain the significance of 3 of the 5.

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Post 6: : Create a timeline of 5 significant events in the Vietnam War.  Explain the significance of 3 of the 5.

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May of 1941-  established the League for the Independence of Vietnam, better known as the Viet Minh
March 13 to May 7, 1954- Viet Minh came to a head at the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu
July 1954- Geneva Accords Divide Vietnam, The Accords split Vietnam at the 17th parallel
1949-1950- China joined with the Soviet Union to formally recognize the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam
1964- the Johnson administration was laying secret plans for an expansion of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.

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The Soviet Union was aided with North Vietnam. They supplied some troops, their biggest contribution was in weaponry. They hoped to build and expand communism in Asia

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It was a conflict between the communism government of Vietnam against South Vietnam, they wanted the whole country to be communism. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union

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Post 4: What part or role did the United States play in the Vietnam War and WHY?

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Post 4: What part or role did the United States play in the Vietnam War and WHY?

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The US were allies with the government of south vietnam, they helped south vietnam to prevent the spread of communism and war. They wanted to stop the fighting and violence within the country.

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Occurs when a major power plays a major role in supporting and directing a party to a conflict but does only a small portion of the actual fighting itself

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It is not necessarily a "hot" war, because it was never actually declared war and stated that they are officially in war. They were more like attacks on each other.