The Vietnam War: The Failure of Containment in Southeast Asia
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50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Vietnam War, a brutal conflict that spanned two decades and resulted in catastrophic human and material losses. After the end of the First Indochina War in 1954, Vietnam was partitioned into two ideologically opposed states, namely the Communist North Vietnam under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh and the nationalist South Vietnam, which soon allied itself with the USA. This resulted in a lengthy conflict characterised by the use of guerrilla warfare which made a quick victory impossible, the intervention, whether covert or overt, of various foreign powers, and the widespread use of chemical weapons, the effects of which are still felt in Vietnam today.
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• Find out about the background to the Vietnam War, including the First Indochina War and the Geneva Accords
• Learn about the key events of the conflict, including the Tet Offensive in 1968
• Understand the human and material costs of the war for American and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians
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The Vietnam War (1955-1975)
Key information
When: 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975.
Where: Vietnam.
Context: an ideological and military conflict between Communist North Vietnam (the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and nationalist South Vietnam (the Republic of Vietnam), which was backed by the US armed forces, after the end of the First Indochina War (1946-1954).
Participants: the Communist North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong against the South Vietnamese and American armies.
Key protagonists:
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), Vietnamese Communist leader and prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945-1955), considered the father of North Vietnam.
Ngô Đình Diệm (1901-1963), Vietnamese anti-Communist politician and president of the Republic of Vietnam (1955-1963).
Nguyên Van Thiêu (1923-2001), South Vietnamese army general and president of the Republic of Vietnam (1967-1975).
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), American politician and US president (1963-1969).
Death toll:
Two million Vietnamese, including 1.3 million soldiers.
60 000 American soldiers.
Introduction
The Vietnam War was one of the key events of the Cold War (1947-1991), as well as the longest and most destructive conflict in the history of US-Vietnamese relations.
After the First Indochina War against the French colonisers between 1946 and 1954, Vietnam was split into two territories, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the north and the Republic of Vietnam in the south. This division led to a military and political conflict which devastated the Vietnamese population during the 20 years of war that followed. When US forces entered the conflict in 1964, the discord between these two ideologically opposed populations only intensified, resulting in profound national trauma. Constant battles and bombing campaigns left the country drained and powerless to manage the vast quantities of toxic waste which continue to pose health risks to its inhabitants even today.
The Vietnam War had unprecedented consequences not only on American policy,