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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War which took place between 1959 until 1975 was one of the most prominent battles fought between communists ideologists and anti-communist states . In particular , the communist allies composed of North Vietnamese forces , the Vietcong , North Korea , China and the Soviet forces pitted against the anti communist forces led by forces from the United States and South Vietnam and joined by prominent United States allies such as South Korea , Philippines and Australia , to name a few

The conflict in Vietnam was

originally a feud between the communist North and the republican South . However , the United States , as an extension to their Cold War policies engaged in this conflict in to ensure that this battle will be won by the South Vietnamese which will eventually strengthen their communist containment policy in the Southeast area . As such , the United States administration feared above all that if the communist forces in the North Vietnam shall prevail , the communist ideology will spread quickly within the area

More than two decades after ending the Vietnam War , the battle still lingered within the states that participated in it . The lessons that the war painfully brought are still etched in the minds of the soldiers and the civilians who suffered the horrors of the war . And as such , the legacies left by the Vietnam War are still being studied until this generation for the people to learn from the things in the past

Towards the Bitter End : The Tet Offensive

The period between 1968-1975 marked the bitter end of the war . The North Vietnamese forces and the Vietcong in Hanoi led the Tet Offensive against the South Vietnamese and the United States forces in Saigon in 1968 (Colvin . The Tet Offensive was launched as a response against the aggressions made by the South Vietnamese soldiers and United States forces against the North Vietnamese forces situated in Hanoi

During the years before the Tet Offensive , North Vietnam suffered from the intensified and aggressive bombings and military attacks from the South Vietnamese forces and their allies . The Johnson administration ed aggressive assaults on the North Vietnam terrains under the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution . The United States forces and their allies rationalized their attacks based on this amendment

Following a series of bombings and unprovoked attacks against the North Vietnamese end , in 1967 the forces in Hanoi created the plan behind the Tet Offensive . Immediately then , the retaliation attacks against Saigon were carried out according to the plan . Although the plan did not include seizing the whole Saigon area , key places and establishments became the targets for the Northerners (Colvin

The results of the Tet Offensive became severely damaging both for the people , properties and infrastructures . The battle it incurred resulted to a number of civilian and soldier deaths , while most of the headquarters and barracks were seized by the North Vietnam forces

Eventually , United States forces retreated from the Saigon grounds . U .S military officials , foreign relation officers and common American...