Vietnam Wars

Introduction

Vietnam is one of the most beautiful nations in Asia . Its history revolves around wars which were internal and some external . This essay digs deeper on the causes of these wars and how they came to end . How politics and military played an integral role in these wars . Then it will feature how the Americans came into the scene and later lost . Was the American loss shameful or patriotic

Vietnam Wars

The Vietnamese fought for their independence from the French and finally in the year 1949 the French recognized Vietnam

as an independent state . Even though Vietnam was independent their former colonizers were in but the French were quick to agree to the terms that were set by officials from the Vietnam side . The west was not happy with they way the French were conducting their business in Vietnam and this was enough a recipe for the later conflict within and without Vietnam . Thus the Vietnam wars or conflicts were the most ravaging warfare in recent times . The wars dragged on as the united front had mobilized many people to fight the French . These people were both communists and non communists and they were under the umbrella organization , The National Liberation Front which was formed in 1960 . Moore Galloway (2008

Geographically there was North and South Vietnam . The major wars were fought between 1954 and 1975 between the northern Vietnam which was a communist state and the southern Vietnam which was backed or controlled by the United States . North Vietnam wanted to fight the southern part and get united as one communist state . However , in December 1946 , the war to resist the French started but most of the cities had been and were captured by the French . Many Vietnamese of various nationalist groups were massacred . This assault never deterred the remaining nationalist group members from their resolute of fighting the colonizer but they changed tact and started to fight guerrilla warfare . The Chinese authority by then supported the Vietnamese to fight off the French and a large number of young men who were not communists contributed a lot and they defeated the French . The French rule came to an end during the 2nd World War in which Japan got a chance and invaded the country . The northern part of Vietnam i .e . the communist north fought the Japanese and declared their country independent . Moore Galloway (2008

Between 1956 and 1960 the Vietnam desired to reunify southern and northern . The northern communists were backed by some communists from the south , the Vietcong by name

Moreover , the conflict brought about an initiative in which the Geneva accord divided Vietnam into two i .e . the communist north and the anti-communist south . This is the time the Americans had openly taken sides to support South Vietnam because it was anti-communist . Tension between north and south escalated and in 1964 war broke out and many nations took part in the conflict including the USA . The armed conflict lasted eight years . Nevertheless , in 1959 the...