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Vietnam war

Aaron libby Mr.Rowley Historical research and writhing 01/14/10

The vietnam war was very devastating for all the war lasted from September 26, 1959 to April 30, 1975 there where lots of lives lost. This war was very hard on every one that was in the war but the family’s suffered with the loss of many of there soldiers lives and were not just sad about the soldiers lives but they were starting to protest. Many American citizens did not agree with this war because of the great violence of the war but there was a good reason that they went into the war because they didn't want Vietnam to become a Communist country so they got involved to stop the take over north Vietnam. We tried to help stop the spread of Communism in Northern vietnam was vs the southern Vietnam witch was supported by the u.s.a during this war the Northern was supported by the other supporters the Vietcong or the Northern armies men where using guerrilla tactics witch where they would hide till we get there attack and then run to resupply then do it again taking out the enemy in small groups till there gone the groups although the Vietcong's where fearing us as they weren't that they weren't that confident that they could take the et American soldiers because of the difference in training and supplies the enemy used for weapons is a Chinas version of a the Russian AK47 also some other medium machine guns and the heavy machine guns to defend some where they where and to take out the enemies helicopters the surrender of japan to the allied forces gave the ho chi min and try’s to make there congress stronger and japan transfers all the power to ho’s Vietnam shortly after president Roosevelt died so truman toke over president and gave the military permission to drop 2 nukes in japan on august 9th the military put the plan into action they dropped in two locations such as hiroshima and nagasaki killing many civilians and making it so they could not live there because of the radiation that will kill if you come in contact with the result was the surrender of japan a few days after the bombs where dropped after a few days the first american was killed in Vietnam his name was Lt. col a. peter Dewey he was killed by Vietnam troops while he was driving in a jeep to the air port witch was reported as a false identity they thought that he was a French man during 1946 most of the success during this war was the air force they where trying new techniques to help the soldiers get to point A and B and get there fast and some what secretive so they came up with a new regimen they would fly from there base into the objective by helicopter they would be be dropped off and the enemy would get caught with there pants down so its called they would catch the enemy not ready for the battle so the generals would have to think up how to flank or kill the enemy that just showed up on your door step and when in the year of 1946 the french realized that Vietnam was a free state and soon replaced china in the north in that same year the indochina war broke out and the dominic of Vietnam out the first attack on the french well the Marshall plan came along they spoke at Harvard gorge .c. Marshall layed out the plans for the truman administration witch was about helping Europe rebuild form w w 2 then the french general fails to take out the Vietminh in one stroke then the elysee agreement witch would make the french make the anti commonest army and the truman committed the troops to korea started to try to make south korea communist so president tells the united nations to take action the first thing he sent to korea was air support to them to help stop spread of Communism also the us started to pledge 15 million dollars to aid the french for there military during the indochina war witch happened a couple years before

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