the vietnam war by Yusuf Walker https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2018-12-10 16:11:47 UTC 2019-01-17 19:50:04 UTC hello@padlet.com *America's war in Vietnam ended over four decades ago, yet a number of significant and important questions remain unanswered: Why did America intervene in Vietnam? Was the conflict a civil war? Why did the United States think it could engage in nation building so far from its shores? Why did some Vietnamese believe they needed to go to war to get justice? Why did the war drag on so long yusuf1109001 https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t/wish/313006457 2018-12-10 16:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t/wish/313006457 yusuf1109001 https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t/wish/313011606 *According to the terms of the Geneva Accords, Vietnam would hold national elections in 1956 to reunify the country.                          *The division at the seventeenth parallel, a temporary separation without cultural precedent, would vanish with the elections. The United States, however, had other ideas. *Secretary of State John Foster Dulles did not support the Geneva Accords because he thought they granted too much power to the Communist Party of Vietnam]]> 2018-12-10 16:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t/wish/313011606 *The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. * More than 3 million people (including over *58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. yusuf1109001 https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t/wish/313048818 2018-12-10 17:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t/wish/313048818 yusuf1109001 https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t/wish/321889556 2019-01-17 19:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t/wish/321889556 yusuf1109001 https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t/wish/321889815 2019-01-17 19:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/yusuf1109001/2max2v6jgd1t/wish/321889815