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…At the greatest level, the extent of the US combat power in Vietnam was limited to air raids and chemical weapons, as the jungle nature of the country, the guerilla warfare strategies of the Vietcong and the difficulty to discriminate between North…

…1) Identify the nature and causes of two major economic problems facing Vietnam. There are many economic problems that face Vietnam. The two major problems are Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Shortfall and Agricultural Impasse. Foreign Direct…

…Explain why the Americans withdraw its forces from Vietnam in 1973? The USA, with Nixon as there president at the time, withdraw from the war in Vietnam in 1973 even with them having the highly developed weapons at their disposal. There were many…

…dominoes. This view that, if one country fell to communism, neighboring states would follow became known as the domino effect or theory. In 1954 when French withdrew its soldiers from Vietnam after been attacked by Vietminh, especially Dien Bien Phu in 1954…

…There were a number of reason that why did many Americans oppose US involvement in the Vietnam War, however public knew US had to stop the spreading of communism. First of all, one reason many Americans oppose US involvement in the Vietnam war…

…After WWII, French colonialism was in motion once more in Vietnam, a country that had been previously colonized by France, followed by Japan after the former fell in 1940. The country's road to nationalism, socialism and eventually communism, was paved…

…'Campus bums', intellectuals, liberal-minded politicians, middle-class suburbs, labor unions, government institutions and later on, returning Vets made up the majority of the protesting population in the United States who sought to end the Vietnam War…

…The Tet Offensive was a major turning point for the Vietnam War, and thus it held a great importance for both the Americans and the Vietnamese. On Jan 31, 1968, the most important holiday to the Vietnamese, also known as Tet, which is the Vietnam New…

…Through both the Vietnam war and the Gulf war. The Australian government supported U.S. backed UN actions strengthening support for the argument that Australia was supporting it's main military ally. Both Labor and Liberal governments support the U.S…

…The Vietnam war by numbers *1963-1973/1954-1975 *cost $170 billion *2.8 million vet *Americans killed 58,000 *americans wounded 300,000 *Vietnamese killed 1.5 million *4 million vietnamese refugees (25%) *explosives dropped: double ww2 *area…