The Vietnam War took place from 1959 to 1975. The war involved the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front which came into conflict with the United States forces and the South Vietnamese army. Struggling for their independence from France, Vietnam divided into two countries, North and South Vietnam. Being Vietnam was a Communist government, the United States decided to become involved with Vietnam. The United States believed that if all of the country fell under a …
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…technology. My examples are a lively narcotics traffic developed as well during the American was, the petty drug dealers often fronting for senior South Vietnamese government officials with access to heroin refined from opium grown in Laos. There were also gangs of youths who set fire to automobiles and smashed shop windows. Poor peasant girls lured into prostitution by the prospect of earning more money in one week than their fathers made in one year.