Vietnam War Sergio Carrascal Bonilla

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Vietnam War – Sergio Carrascal Bonilla

Was the Vietnam war very bloody? Was it an economic war? The Vietnam war was the

conflict that showed that the United States was not invincible. This war was very gory, there were

more than 2 million people dead, including Vietnamese, and Cambodians. The war was a fight

between a poor country with people who did everything to defend their ideas and their land,

against the United States, one the most powerful countries than was trying to impose their law. It

is important to not forget this war, its causes, and consequences.

There are some facts that are essential to understand the war. The Vietnam war also

known as the Second Indochina war, was a conflict between South and North Vietnam, the

Indochina war is a precedent of this war since it had left the country divided into the Northern

sector with a communist regime and to the South with a capitalist regime, causing differences to

be generated. Then, during the war, the United States entered to support South Vietnam and the

Soviet Union who supported North Vietnam. The war lasted 20 years, from 1955 to 1975, it was

during the Cold War.

The Second Indochina war is considered as one of the longest in history as it was constant

for 20 years, starting 10 years after the second World war. After the second world war there were

countries who found the moment to proclaim it independence. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos

were French colonies who after the second world war found the moment to proclaim

independence. But here the problems began, Vietnam could not agree and that is why it ended up

dividing into two different countries, which had different thoughts and types of government,

“Vietnam was divided into a communist North and anti-communist South. Because of the Cold

War anxiety of the time, the general feeling was that.” (Rank, n.d) This ended in a problem

between both sides of Vietnam, but it was not a war. It started a war when the US intervened to

help south Vietnam, and then Soviet Union to support the north.

The United States entered this war because they thought it was an easy way to win but

they found other things. Even though South Vietnam was not a very advanced country with the

help of its citizens, its military and clearly with the help of the Soviet Union, it managed to defeat

one of the countries with more technology but without ingenuity. For the United States, this

defeat is considered one of the most important in the history of its navy, this is because despite

having superior technology, in the military and in more things, they could not defeat South

Vietnam, and they had to withdraw. The war was caused by small problems but then it got into a

bloody war.

The war was very aggressive, making the rain of bombs that affected thousands of

civilians, both capitalists and non-capitalists, this made the observing public grow. In addition, at

that time the news in newspapers and other sources were uncensored making it look like the war

was live, and it was the first war transmitted on television. This war was so violent that chemical

gas, known as napalm, was used for the first time. Despite all this, the war ended in a not so

violent way.

During the 1970s, protests in the United States by young people, capitalists and the

general population were common, calling for the country's exit from the conflict and the

immediate withdrawal of its troops. With the constant defeats and without popular support, the

American government accepted the Paris treaty that provided for a ceasefire, and so it was that in

1975 all U.S. troops had been withdrawn from Vietnam, and only thousands of corpses remained,

victims of bombs, or clashes with the North Vietnamese military.

In conclusion the Vietnam war started as an internal conflict, but with the intervention of

other countries it became a war that lasted 19 years and had severe aftermath. The United States