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THE VIETNAM WAR By Henry Fitzgerald
Fact Box The US first got involved with Vietnam in 1954, a year before the war started. The U.S and south vietnamese presidents were both shot in 1963.
Bibliography Contributor, Quora. "Why Did the U.S. Lose the Vietnam War?" Slate Magazine. N.p., 16 Nov. 2014. Web. 05 June 2017.
The Vietnam war was the worst war because the weapons they used, many people died, and America lost. The first reason is the weapons they used and their tactics. The southern vietnamese would dig holes and place spikes in the holes with feces on them. Then once the enemy would fall in the hole the spikes were dirty causing disease and the disease would spread making many people sick. They also set tripwire, so when you tripped on the wire a large spike ball would come down and puncture them. They were very sneaky due to their talented hiding methods. In addition they also would spread boobytraps around the bases so when they walked out they would get hit with one of the traps. This method of fighting is very unfair and dishonorable. This war was very traumatic because many people died and many more were wounded, this a result of the unfair war tactic. For instance in the book I read called “Cracker” by Cynthia Bailey, Rick the protagonist and main character stated “many of us did not make it out alive” (pg. 291) Also the spreading diseases was a very efficient way of wiping people out, first the disease was carried by one person then another person would catch the disease causing them to be infected. Also there are many other ways to be infected, just being next to them and breathing the same air was a way to spread the disease. In addition 304,000 were wounded and 58,000 were killed and this is just American soldiers. Since there were so many wounded they did not have enough medical assistance so many of them were left to die
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leaving families in depair. The total death count is 3,000,00 in North and South Vietnam during this event. The war commenced because North Vietnam believed in communism. North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States after 20 years of fighting it was declared that North Vietnam had won. The war had damaged us economically, we put 168 billion dollars into the war. The huge spending in the war left a unbalanced trade this was seen as u sign that we could no longer aord the war. Even though the draft existed since the Civil War, it became highly controversial during the Vietnam War as President Johnson begun to deploy huge numbers of ground troops to Vietnam in mid 1960s and the death count go higher day after day. In conclusion for those three reason the Vietnam war was the worst war. For three reasons the way it was fought, many people died, and the war left America economically and emotionally unstable.
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