https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5 en-us 2017-01-16 09:29:59 UTC 2026-01-31 14:49:54 UTC hello@padlet.com anaisgoddeeris15 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147313431 The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war began in 1954, after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between two global superpowers : the United States and the Soviet Union.]]> 2017-01-16 09:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147313431 anaisgoddeeris15 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147314098 2017-01-16 09:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147314098 anaisgoddeeris15 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147314566 Nixon sought to deflate the antiwar movement by appealing to a “silent majority” of Americans who he believed supported the war effort. In an attempt to limit the volume of American casualties, he announced a program of withdrawing troops, increasing aerial and artillery bombardment and giving South Vietnamese control over ground operations. In addition to this policy, which he called “Vietnamization,” Nixon continued public peace talks in Paris, adding higher-level secret talks conducted by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger beginning in the spring of 1968. The North Vietnamese continued to insist on complete U.S. withdrawal as a condition of peace, however, and the next few years would bring even more carnage, including the horrifying revelation that U.S. soldiers had massacred more than 400 unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai in March 1968. The anti-war movement, which was particularly strong on college campuses, divided Americans bitterly. For some young people, the war symbolized a form of unchecked authority they had come to resent. For other Americans, opposing the government was considered unpatriotic and treasonous.]]> 2017-01-16 09:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147314566 anaisgoddeeris15 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147315572 Nguyen and his family : "I'm not saying  what he did was right, but you have to put yourself in his position"]]> 2017-01-16 09:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147315572 anaisgoddeeris15 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147316058 2017-01-16 09:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147316058 anaisgoddeeris15 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147317103 https://7owls.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/la-guerre-du-vietnam-en-7-musiques-the-vietnam-war-in-7-tracks/]]> 2017-01-16 09:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147317103 anaisgoddeeris15 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147317803 The U.S. suffered over 47,000 killed in action plus another 11,000 noncombat deaths; over 150,000 were wounded and 10,000 missing.
Casualties for the Republic of South Vietnam will never be adequately resolved. Low estimates calculate 110,000 combat KIA and a half-million wounded. Civilian loss of life was also very heavy, with the lowest estimates around 415,000.
Similarly, casualty totals among the VC and NVA and the number of dead and wounded civilians in North Vietnam cannot be determined exactly. In April 1995, Vietnam’s communist government said 1.1 million combatants had died between 1954 and 1975, and another 600,000 wounded. Civilian deaths during that time period were estimated at 2 million, but the U.S. estimate of civilians killed in the north at 30,000.
Among South Vietnam’s other allies, Australia had over 400 killed and 2,400 wounded; New Zealand, over 80 KIA ; Republic of Korea, 4,400 KIA; and Thailand 350 killed.]]> 2017-01-16 09:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147317803 anaisgoddeeris15 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147340357 2017-01-16 12:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147340357 anaisgoddeeris15 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147340903 2017-01-16 12:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147340903 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147342435 The hippie generation was too eccentric for many average Americans. Their lifestyle in general was a joke to the conventional citizens. Though their dress, hair, drug use, and radical beliefs shocked many people, the group’s deep concern about the Vietnam War turned out to be a huge positive impact on America and the world.
Hippies didn't care about money, or materialistic things, they lived their lives on their own terms, and spoke out with protests and sit-ins on topics they truly cared about. A few decades ago, young people were fighting for change the Vietnam War fed their fire to fight for what they believed in. ]]> 2017-01-16 12:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/147342435 anaisgoddeeris15 https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/151783324 Flower Power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War.
Taken by Bernie Boston on October 21, 1967, this photo shows a young, long-haired man in a turtleneck sweater, placing carnations into the rifle barrels of military policemen.]]> 2017-02-06 12:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/anaisgoddeeris15/2ldpdijhsqb5/wish/151783324