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Why did USA get involved on the vietnam war?

The USA were afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then on Asia, so thats why they decided to send money, supplies and military support to help the South Vietnamese Government. Another reason was that the North Vietnamese attacked the US Navy in the Gulf of Tonkin.This event makes USA get into the war and making intensifying more the war.

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Why did the conflict start and who pulled the first trigger?

The first to pull the trigger was France when they imposes a colonial system on Vietnam, calling it French Indochina. The Vietnam war was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam versus South Vietnam and its dirigente ally, United State. The conflict was increase by the ongoing Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United State.

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Agent Orange was a chemical herbicide used by the USA from 1961-1971, in the Vietnam War to destroy the crops in North Vietnam to eliminate the forest cover and the resources used by the Vietnamese soldiers. The USA spread 20 million gallons of herbicide all over Vietnam, among them, the agent orange. It was created by an American agrochemical corporation named Monsanto and they used two-thirds of the total amount of herbicides during this war. This agent orange would have severe effects not only on the Vietnamese people but in the USA soldiers too since it could cause cancer, birth defects, rashes, severe psychological damage, liver problem, skin diseases, and many others. After many reports of diseases from returning Vietnam veterans that were in contact with the Orange Agent, the USA entered a legal battle. It was so dangerous that in 1991 president George HW Bushed needed to signed the Agent Orange Act, which said that any disease associated with Agent Orange needs to be treated as result of wartime.

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Who won the Vietnam war?

- When the war was ending, North Vietnam army secured the surrender of the South Vietnam which the goal of the North Vietnam was to convert all Vietnam into a communist government. A goal that was accomplished because both North and South Vietnam joined and were formed into a Socialist republic. This was a war that the US lost because they didnt accomplish their goal which was to convert Vietnam into a Capitalist country, and it was a war that killed aproximately 58,000 US soldiers and 304,000 wounded. Finally when Vietnam was formed into a Communist country, they splitted in 2 parts, the south and the north having his president of the moment Ho Chi Minh who was the president of North Vietnam, one of the most influential communist leaders.

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Tet offensive.

The Tet Offensive was a battle that started in the Vietnam war, In this battle, North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The day that this happened was a holiday, celebrating a new lunar year, North Vietnamese decide to attack this day for do a surprise attack that south Vietnamese don't wait for it. thus causing one of the bloodiest wars of the Vietnam war.
During this bloody act, PAVN forces had approximately 1,042 and 5,000 soldiers killed and 89 soldiers captured, by the other hand only 216 U.S. Marines and soldiers had been killed and 1609 injured during the Tet offensive,

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During WW2 Vietnamese constructed underground tunnels to fight the Japanese invasion. After the war ended they expanded these tunnels to hide guerrillas but by the 60s, the tunnels included several hospitals, storage facilities, training camps, and barracks.

Tunnels rats were a group of volunteers of American, Australian, and New Zealand soldiers who were specialized in crawling through enemy tunnels to perform covert search and disarm mines. Due to the tight places, they were equipped with a flashlight and a handgun.

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How did news coverage affect the perspective of Americans on the War?
Media had an important role in what Americans saw and believed form the war. Since Americans had more access to cable television, and journalists focused more on what was happening during the war, making it easier for Americans to catch up with the actual events of the war. During the mid-'60s, the US and South Vietnam were losing to the North, while this happened the opinions of Americans were divided since some kept supporting the government meanwhile other turned their back on them, because of the reports that were given to the public. All of this led to public pressure on the US to finish the war. The news coverage was helpful but also stressful since it gave knowledge to the citizens on what was happening, but it created pressure from the people to the government, making the situation tenser.

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Who was Ho Chi Minh?
He was the founder of Vietnam's nationalist movement, fighting French colonial power and then South Vietnam, who was backed by the US. At the end of World War II, Vietnam's independence was announced, and later the country was split into a communist north and a un-communist south, Ho Chi Minh, became the president of North Vietnam. The American leaders saw him as a communist threat. He was named one of the most influential communist leaders of the 20th century, and Vietnams's largest city is named after him.

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Where did the Vietnam war take place?
As the name itself says, most of the Vietnam war took place mainly in Vietnam. At the beginning of the war, most of the fighting took place in the South of the Republic of Vietnam, but as the as the war went on, it expanded to the North and even to Cambodia and Laos, who shared their eastern borders with Vietnam.

In mid of 1957 on South Vietnam, the viet cong (A term that first appeared in various Saigon newspapers in 1956. It came from the phrase “Việt Nam Cộng Sản” which means “Vietnamese Communists” and “Việt gian Cộng Sản” which means “Vietnamese Traitor to Communists”.)  began to increase their guerrilla operations against the Saigon government. As most urban population was strongly anti-communist, the war took place mainly in rural areas where Viet Cong conducted many acts of terrorism.  At this point, the war now became a battle of taking control of rural territories, village by village.

In North Vietnam the U.S.  tried to limit the ground war in South Vietnam, this is why they began to do many air operations to destroy North Vietnam’s infrastructures and stop their supply lines.

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How many Americans served in the Vietnam war?
- 2,709,918 Americans served in Vietnam. This is 9.7% of their generation, 58,202 were killed, 303,704 were wounded and 153,329 were hospitalized. 11,000 women served in the U.S. military in noncombat positions. There were troops in the army, navy, air force, and marines. In the United States, the conscription has been employed by the government in five different conflicts: WW1, WW2, American civil war, American revolutionary war and the Cold war that include the Vietnam war and the Korean war.

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What where the consequences of the Vietnam War?
-The Vietnam War had a huge impact all over the world, even now there are still evident consequences of this conflict. The most notorious effect of the Vietnam War was the massive wave of deaths that came with it, the war killed an estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians, 1.1 million North Vietnamese troops, 200,000 South Vietnamese troops, and 58,000 U.S. troops. Those wounded in combat numbered tens of thousands more. The massive U.S. bombing of both North and South Vietnam left the country in ruins. A problem that

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Why did the Vietnam war impact so much of the US?

The Vietnam War is one of the most remembered of the Cold War period, a conflict that confronted the north and south of Vietnam, and about 40 countries entered the problem so it became an international conflict including United States.  The main cause of the conflict was the attempt to overthrow the government of North Vietnam and Americans were afraid of the spreading of communism through all Asia, began to support the capitalist territory of Vietnam by sending military support and supplies to be attentive to the situation.

This war affected the United States since it lost its spirit of a united and winning nation.  Thousands of soldiers suffered serious consequences and with disabilities or serious mental disorders due to this war. The Vietnam war

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How did the Vietnam War end?

- The Vietnam War officially ended on April 30, 1975 but direct U.S military involvement ended on August 15, 1973.
- August 1974: President Nixon resigns in the face of likely impeachment after the Watergate Scandal and Gerald R. Ford becomes president. The Watergate Scandal was a major federal political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon that resulted in the end of Nixon's presidency.
- January 1975: President Gerald Ford rules out any further U.S military involvement in Vietnam.

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How many people died in this war?

This was a very tragic war there was in total 1,353,000 deaths from this deaths 282,000 Allied military deaths, 444,000 PAVN/VC military deaths and, 627,000 Civilian deaths (North and South Vietnam).

In 1982 the Vietnam Veterans Memorials was dedicated in Washington, D.C., inscribed with the names of 58,220 members of U.S. armed forces who had died or were missing as a result of the war.  Among other countries that fought for South Vietnam on a smaller scale, South Korea suffered more than 4,000 dead, Thailand about 350, Australia more than 500, and New Zealand some three dozen.

Civilian deaths in the Vietnam War
Lewy estimates that 40,000 South Vietnamese civilians were assassinated by the PAVN/VC; 250,000 were killed as a result of combat in South Vietnam, and 65,000 were killed in North Vietnam. He suggests that another 222,000 civilians were counted as military deaths by the U.S. in compiling its body count. His estimated total of civilian deaths is 587,000. It was difficult to distinguish between civilians and military personnel in many instances as many individuals were part-time guerrillas or impressed laborers who did not wear uniforms.

Deaths caused by North Vietnam/VC forces
R.J. Rummel estimated that PAVN/VC forces killed around 164,000 civilians in democide between 1954 and 1975 in South Vietnam, from a range of between 106,000 and 227,000, plus another 50,000 killed in North Vietnam. Rummel's mid-level estimate includes 17,000 South Vietnamese civil servants killed by PAVN/VC. In addition, at least 36,000 Southern civilians were executed for various reasons in the period 1967–1972. About 130 American and 16,000 South Vietnamese POWs died in captivity. During the peak war years, another scholar Guenter Lewy attributed almost a third of civilian deaths to the VC.

Deaths caused by South Vietnam
According to RJ Rummel, from 1964 to 1975, an estimated 1,500 people died during the forced relocations of 1,200,000 civilians, another 5,000 prisoners died from ill-treatment and about 30,000 suspected communists and fighters were executed. In Quang Nam Province 4,700 civilians were killed in 1969. This totals, from a range of between 16,000 and 167,000 deaths caused by South Vietnam during the Diem-era, and 42,000 and 118,000 deaths caused by South Vietnam in the post Diệm-era), excluding PAVN forces killed by the ARVN in combat.

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What was the most common transportation the americans used for Vietnam war?
- The US used several vehicles on Vietnam war, but one of them was  highly utilized as an infantry transport in bringing the fight to the enemy, this was the helicopter,  in the period of conflict helicopters as the Bell UH-1, and the Boeing CH- 47 Chinook,

The Bell UH-1 was utility military helicopter powered by a single turboshaft engine, with two-bladed main and tail rotors. The UH-1 was used in combat operations during the war, with around 7,000 helicopters deployed.

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is an American twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. Its primary roles include troop movement, artillery emplacement and battlefield resupply. There were around 750 units and 200 of them were lost in war.

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How many countries were involved in the Vietnam war? (Luciano)

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How many countries were involved in the Vietnam war? (Luciano)