| Q. | What were some of the bad things North Vietnam and the Vietcong did during the Vietnam War? | Related Search:
History | | | I'm doing a paper that's sort of comparing and contrasting the North and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War and I just want some specific or common things the North Vietnamese and Vietcong did that were evil, brutal, harsh, etc.
THANKS!
| | A. | They didn't kill enough Americans | | | |
| Q. | What was the result of the 1972 Christmas bombings of North Vietnam? | Related Search:
History | | | What was the result of the 1972 Christmas bombings of North Vietnam?
1. They broke the deadlock in the peace talks and got the North Vietnamese to agree to terms.
2. They caused the People's Republic of China to send a large army to North Vietnam to fight the United States.
3. They destroyed all chance of a negotiated peace because Le Duc Tho walked out of the Paris peace talks in protest.
4. They brought Nixon close to defeat in his bid for reelection in 1972.
| | A. | definitely 1. | | | |
| Q. | How was Tet both a military loss and a political victory for North Vietnam? | Related Search:
History | | | How was Tet both a military loss and a political victory for North Vietnam?
| | A. | In Mao's little red book, military operations are divided into three phases. Phase I is primary the building of political strength, accompanied by selected assassinations and limited military operations of propaganda value. Phase II operations consolidate base areas and carefully attrit enemy forces. Phase III operations, with full-blown military attacks, are only to be the coup de grace once the situation has matured adequately.
Giap overestimated his position and moved prematurely to Phase III in Tet 1968. The Viet Cong were destroyed as a fighting force and were set back largely to phase I operations, though in select areas they were able to continue phase II operations. They would never again have the strength for phase III operations. The NVA, at the same time, were hit hard, and had to revert to phase II for several months, and even then were severely weakened. This was not Giap's first mistake, nor would it be his last, but it was his worst. On the other hand, as the saying goes, "better lucky than good."
Ho had been quite open about using Mao's strategy to eject the US, but few in the US were paying attention. While the Tet offensive was falling apart, the intelligentsia in the US were proving their lack of intelligence. They seem generally to have taken the phase III attack not as what it was but as "proof" that the Viet Cong and NVA were stronger than we'd thought. While Giap was wondering whether he'd lost the war, many in the US decided we had already lost, or were in an "unwinnable" war. Since the purpose of putting soldiers into the field is not to kill enemy soldiers but rather to kill the enemy's will to continue, that was it. Ho's strategy had won, just as had Westmoreland's. But Ho's was grand strategy, Westmoreland's only local strategy. To a large degree, one could say that while Westmoreland was fighting Giap, Giap was fighting Walter Cronkite. When Walter pronounced the war unwinnable, Johnson knew he'd lost the American people.
I'd take some exception, though, to the idea that it was a military loss for Giap. Tactically, he got his hat handed to him, but that's for company-level officers. Generals concern themselves with strategy, and there's no distinction between the military and the political at that level. The two are the same.
As a later example of the same idea, consider the Palestinian gains against Israel in the Intifada. Their greatest military weapon was the TV camera. They knew that a kid with a rock and an observer with a camera could beat an IDF soldier with a rifle any day, because the real fight was in the court of world opinion. All it took was a willingness to sacrifice a few kids, and that they were willing to do. | | | |
| Q. | What country baked the country of North Vietnam during the Voetma war? | Related Search:
History | | | What country baked the country of North Vietnam during the Voetma war?
| | A. | Russia
China | | | |
| Q. | did North Vietnam intend to take over other democratic nations? | Related Search:
History | | | the Domino Theory says that other democratic countries would be next. But is that what North Vietnam was planning on doing? Turning nations, other than just South Vietnam communist?
| | A. | No. This idea was one of the driving forces behind the tragedy of the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese, as a whole, were and are a remarkably united and self-identifying people. Historically, they had been driven out of what is now southern China, and had settled in Vietnam. When they came under French colonial domination and later Japanese occupation, they struggle to regain their freedom and to reestablish a single united entity.
Unfortunately, the Vietnamese people became the victims of European considerations. France wanted to reestablish its colonial empire, and as a price for cooperation in Europe against Communism, the French demanded that they retain Indochina as a colony after World War Two. The Americans acquiesced. This set of a war in Indochina, between the Vietnamese and the French. Remarkably, both sides respected the autonomy of the Laotian and Cambodian peoples.
In 1954, the world powers gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, and brokered a peace agreement. Part of the agreement was that there were to be three countries in what had been Indochina: Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. There were not to be separate countries of North Vietnam and South Vietnam; there was to be a single Vietnam.
Unfortunately, this led to a result which the United States found intolerable. In a united Vietnam, with the populace free to chose its own leadership, American intelligence estimates indicated that Ho Chi Minh would have the support of some 80 percent of the Vietnamese populace. The United States failed to realize that Ho was not a puppet of the Chinese or the Russians, but a fierce nationalist.
Rather than accept Ho as the leader of a united Vietnam, the United States worked with the French and some wealthy, pro-western Vietnamese to set up a separate entity, South Vietnam. To many Vietnamese, this was a betrayal of their right to be independent. As a result, the Vietnamese were thrown into another war of independence, trying to rid their country of another outside regime and unite it into a single Vietnam.
Notably, since the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam has generally been quite insular. While Laos and Cambodia have undergone terrible turmoil, Vietnam has not attempt to take over these countries. | | | |
| Q. | Why did the soviets and china support north vietnam? | Related Search:
History | | | I asked a question about dropping a bomb on nam and someone said that we couldn't because the soviets were behind the north vietnamese and it would have caused WW3.
Why were the soviets and russia, also china behind North Vietnam?
| | A. | After declaring the independence of Vietnam in 1945, President Ho Chi Minh reached out to the United States by sending telegrams to the American President. His telegrams were ignored. Ho Chi Minh also reached out to the Soviets and then the Chinese after 1949. In 1950 both the U.S.S.R. and China recognized the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Relations were good between all of the three nations for years. The aid from the Soviet bloc and, primarily, China was important for both reconstruction (Vietnam had just finished a nine-year war with the French for its independence) and development during 1955-57 but was of secondary significance by 1960. It was not until 1964 that the U. S. had realized the failure of its covert war in Vietnam. The use of a nuclear weapon was not considered necessary. In 1965, American combat troops invaded Vietnam and the belief was that America would win militarily in a few years. By 1968 it was obvious the U. S. was not winning the war.
Although the United States considered the use of a nuclear bomb twice (when the French were fighting at Dien Bien Phu and when the Americans were fighting at Khe Sanh), saner minds prevailed. Either President Johnson and his advisors had ruled out nuclear weapons. America never declared war on the DRV, and the opposition from both the Soviets and Chinese (military or political) and the rest of the world (political) would have been tantamount to an all-out war, call it WW3 if you like.
You may want to ask why the Americans were behind the so-called "Republic of Vietnam?" | | | |
| Q. | Who was the North Vietnamese communist leader during the Vietnam War? | Related Search:
History | | | 7. Who was the North Vietnamese communist leader during the Vietnam War?
(Points: 1)
Nguyen Huu Bai
Tan Son Nhut
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
8. What gave President Johnson the authority to send additional troops to Vietnam without a formal declaration of war?
Operation Rolling Thunder
the Viet Cong invasion in 1965
election of 1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
9. Which of the following was not one of the concerns raised by those opposed to the Vietnam War?
civilian deaths caused by U.S. bombing
U.S. interference in a civil war
draft unfairly targeting poor and working class
troops unable to engage effectively in guerilla warfare
10. What were Agent Orange and napalm?
secret operations of the Viet Cong
part of the undergrowth that was problematic for U.S. forces
elements of U.S. chemical warfare
contagious diseases suffered by U.S. troops
11. What 1968 action was a military victory for the South Vietnamese and a psychological victory for the North?
the fall of Saigon
national mobilization efforts
Operation Rolling Thunder
the Tet Offensive
12. What action did President Nixon take that increased opposition to the Vietnam War in the United States?
failing to use Henry Kissinger effectively
bombing Cambodia
increasing troop levels
giving up North Vietnam
| | A. | 7.Ho Chi Minh
8. Gulf Of Tonkin resolution
9. troops unable to effectively engage guerilla troops
10. elements of chem warfare
11. tet offensive
12. bombing cambodia | | | |
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