Ten years after the war’s end, Nixon wrote a compelling retrospective on the war titled No More Vietnams. The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. I'm a 2nd generation vietnamese american and in my youth I subconsciously refused to research or understand the Vietnam War. These conventional works claim that once President Lyndon B. Johnson escalated the conflict and deployed American ground combat troops to South Vietnam, General William C. … Close. Vietnamese American perspective on the Vietnam War. Accounts of the Vietnam War from the perspective of Vietnamese are often overlooked, and books by South Vietnamese soldiers in particular are relatively rare. 4 Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars 1950-1975, University of North Carolina Press, 1999, p21. History. The American Soldier in VietnamMore than 2.5 million American men served in Vietnam during the war. In Iraq it took just 2,000 dead for a majority of Americans to oppose the war. History.
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5 Immanuel C Y Hsu, The Rise of Modern China, Oxford University Press, Inc., 1995, pp795-796. Just being where the war actually took place opens your mind to a different perspective. A majority of Americans turned against the Vietnam War only when the number of U.S. dead exceeded 20,000. The World War II Generation and Vietnam Attitudes shaped by World War II were not always a good fit in the Vietnam era.

But many others were poor or working-class teenagers who enlisted or were drafted into the military right out of high school. ... Americans and Vietnamese are working together on the creation of Vietnam’s first American-style liberal arts university. 6 Spencer C Tucker, Encyclopedia Of The Vietnam War, ABC-CLIO, 2000, p415. 4 days ago. The Vietnam War displayed the limits of US military power - 58,000 Americans died, millions of Vietnamese were killed. Some of these men were career military officers. It also allows you to learn things that American history classes at home leave out. 7 Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First The Singapore Story: 1965-2000, Harper Collins, 2000, pp467, 573. For that reason, Nguyên Công Luân’s new autobiography Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier is refreshing … but heavy. Offering a unique and impressively informed and informative perspective, Vietnam's American War: A History is an extraordinary study of exceptional scholarship and unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Vietnam War collections and supplemental studies lists.'

u/Voltarina. 22. I'm currently on vacation at home watching the Ken Burns Vietnam documentary. Emily Rosenberg propose une perspective historique et comparative du modèle américain de consommation de masse en interrogeant les différentes échelles (nationales et internationales) mobilisées dans le déploiement de ce système d’organisation des rapports marchands. Posted by. War becomes a lot more real when you met the “other” face to face and see the places with your own eyes. While we were in Vietnam, we took the opportunity to try to learn more about the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War, which officially commenced on November 1, 1955 and lasted for nearly twenty years, cost the lives of over 58,000 Americans and more than 3 million Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao soldiers and civilians. The peace movement that gradually turned public opinion against the war is often remembered as an affair led by white […] World Vietnam legacy: America struggles to find meaning in defeat. Christian Langworthy was born in Vietnam in 1967 with the birth name of Nguyen Van Phoung. Many standard American histories of the Vietnam War—at least those arguing the war was winnable—contend that the US Army squandered its chances at victory in Southeast Asia because of misguided strategy. He came to the United States in 1975. American veteran of the Vietnam War Bill Dyke (R) hugs retired North Vietnamese Army soldier Mai Thuan at a meeting between veterans in Hanoi in 2000.