https://padlet.com/201700631/11lhiatg5tau Vietnam and America both had different views on the significance of the war. Vietnam refused to give up, whereas America was too arrogant and tried to compromise once they realized how bad the war was. en-us 2018-12-05 16:38:46 UTC 2026-01-23 07:08:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dartstarget.png 201700631 https://padlet.com/201700631/11lhiatg5tau/wish/311459845 "All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." -The first lines of the The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, issued on September 2, 1945, quoting the American Declaration of Independence.

- Quoting the American Declaration of Independence, the Vietnamese valued almost the same things as the Americans. However, despite this, the Americans viewed the Vietnamese as if they weren't human. They didn't believe the Vietnamese could experience pain, happiness, or any sort of sensation that they could feel but in reality, they did.

"You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds you will lose and I will win." -Viet Minh leader Ho Chi Minh in a warning to French colonists in 1946

- The Vietnamese were determined to win and did not let anything stand in the way of that determination.

"Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified." -Ho Chi Minh, statement, December 19, 1946

- Despite whatever challenges and hardships the Americans may throw at the Vietnamese, the Vietnamese will continue to keep fighting. ]]> 2018-12-05 16:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/201700631/11lhiatg5tau/wish/311459845 201701326 https://padlet.com/201700631/11lhiatg5tau/wish/311464308 "I am not going to lose Vietnam. I am not going to be the President who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went." ~ President Lyndon Johnson 1963

- President Lyndon underestimates the power of Vietnam by ensuring that he will not lose. He doesn't want South Vietnam to become communists, so America's army aided them in fighting their Civil War.

"And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam --- and all who seek to share their conquest --- of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly under the cloak of a meaningless agreement." President Lyndon Johnson 1965

- Yet again, President Lyndon underestimates Vietnam's ability to fight. He feels like he can easily go to Vietnam and defeat them. He also tries to make it seem like
Vietnam will be the side trying to compromise, and even then he will keep fighting. In reality America decided to compromise and Vietnam refused to agree.

"Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that." President Richard Nixon 1969

- President Nixon also approaches the situation with arrogance. He thinks that Vietnam can't humiliate America by defeating them, and only Americans can humiliate themselves. He's correct because America humiliates itself by going fighting in a war that has been going on for years, thinking they can stop it because they're Americans who have a great force of power. When in reality, Vietnam is a fighting country who doesn't like to be ran over and underestimated. ]]> 2018-12-05 16:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/201700631/11lhiatg5tau/wish/311464308 201701731 https://padlet.com/201700631/11lhiatg5tau/wish/311464397 "I think we have all underestimates the seriousness of this situation.  Like giving cobalt treatment to a terminal cancer case. I think a long protracted war will disclose our weakness, not our strength."-- Deputy Secretary of State George W. Ball 1965

- Deputy Secretary Of State George W. Ball is implying in a serious manner that the U.S. was taking the Vietnam war and the damages that can be made/caused too lightly and that participating in the war will make them look bad and not appear as strong as they are.

"we are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do that Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."-- President Lyndon Johnson in a speech at Akron University on October 21, 1964, two weeks before the presidential election.

-President Lyndon is stating that why should people from America go over to Vietnam and fight a battle that the Asian people can do for themselves, almost saying that whatever happens in America the American's can handle and what ever happens in Vietnam the Asian people can handle.

"Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream.  Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward."--Senator George McGovern (D-SD) in his address accepting the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention on July 14,1972.

- By saying this, Senator McGovern wants the Americans that are in Vietnam to come back and help build our country to make it a better place.]]> 2018-12-05 16:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/201700631/11lhiatg5tau/wish/311464397