Vietnam WarKazi Maruful Islam

Situations• It was colonized by the French• War between the Viets and French• Involvement of world power blocs • Domino theory• Gulf on Tonkin Resolution • War broke out between Viets and US soldiers• Protest against the war from America • The war comes to an end

French Colony

• French were interested in exports of Vietnam• Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam was French

Indochina• Ho Chi Minh makes his own army (Viet Min)• Vietnamese were tired of the French• Demanded liberty

War between French and Viet Min

• Viet Min attacked the French• Americans help the French• President of USA, Harry S Truman involved his

country• USA was anti-communist• Ho Chi Minh was communist• The world power blocs were involved

World Power Blocs and Domino Theory

• Cold war between USA and Soviet Union (Nato vs. Warsaw pact)

• They fought indirectly involving other countries.

• USA feared the domino theory• Domino theory• Gulf on Tonkin Resolution

War between the US and Viet Cong

• US base in the south (Non-Communist government)

• It was funded by the US government • Seemed like the US were winning• US had better army, navy and air force• The Viet Cong were determined to win

Deadly war

• Viet Cong used the Ho Chi Minh trail• US army weren’t used to the weather• Viet Cong used a Guerilla war strategy • Viet Cong would attempt suicide bombings

and sneak attacks• Thousands of American Soldiers died• American people start questioning their

government

WHY?

• Number of deaths indicated victory, not invasion

• Soldiers were unaware of their objective• Media covered the bloody war of Vietnam in

America• People started protesting • President of America stopped sending troops

to Vietnam

Results of the war

• 1.2 million Vietnamese soldiers died• 58 thousand US soldiers died• It divided the the US sharply• Vietnam mostly came under communist

government• It has an open market economy too• The war left a scar on Vietnam

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