Vietnam Summery
The story behind Vietnam starts when the communist party started to invade southern Vietnam. Once this happened the United States was altered of this and they sprung into action. The first fear for the U.S. was, if southern Vietnam fell, so to would the other nations, so the U.S. had to take control of the situation, and fast. Nixon, the president at the time, went forth and sent our troops thousands of miles to stop this outbreak of communism. Once there our troops had to fight an enemy we have ever yet to face, gorilla warfare. The Vietcong Used tricks such as, shallow bamboo sharpened stumps with feces on them, snipers in trees, ambush, and manny others. As the war raged in far away countries Nixon was settling things here at home by making good deals with soviet leaders and such. Much later as we started to realize that they would not give up, we decided to abandon Vietnam, for in reality it was a near pointless war, that no one lost. Our troops were not welcomed home as heros but as monsters that fought a pointless war. But the new President made great speeches making the U.S. over see the vietnam war and Nixon's watergate scandal making the U.S. a better place overall.
~ By
Curtis Jorgenson II
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