Strategies of War in Vietnam: Communism vs. America

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The United States said they went into Vietnam to stop the Communist aggression from the North. America had declared South Vietnam an independent country in 1954, and it would do anything in its power to protect the country. The Communists had fought and won a war against the French to gain back their country, and they had allowed a separation of North and South with the understanding that national elections would bring them victory and one …

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…if South Vietnam was aggressed upon. The Communist took the chance anyway and in 1975 retook what they had been fighting for and became one country again. To the Communists, they had been fighting a war for thirty years, and no amount of threats had stopped them in the past for fighting for what they believed was theirs, and it would not stop them now. Work Cited Young, Marilyn. The Vietnam Wars Duiker, William. Sacred War