History
By: Shannon Faith
Separation of South and North
Vietnam
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QohkQ40dqJs&feature=player_embedded
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/p/VietnamBrief.htm
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=348262
http://peteralanlloyd.com/general-news/the-jim-bolen-sog-interviews-part-7-reconnaissance-missions-tothe-ho-chi-minh-trail/
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ho_chi_minh_trail.htm
http://ww
w.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/268322/Ho-Chi-Minh-Trail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlacht_um_%C4%90i%E1%BB%87n_Bi%C3%AAn_Ph%E1%BB%A7
http://www.citiesgallery.com/russia-map-with-countries/
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Vietnam-War-Laos-Posters_i9075589_.htm
http://legaciesofwar.org/resources/cluster-bomb-fact-sheet/
http://legaciesofwar.org/about-laos/secret-war-laos/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War
http://www.tourismcambodia.org/multimedia/detail.php?id=58&cat_id=2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War
http://www.vietnamhighlight.com/vietnamfacts/vietnamfact_hochiminh.html
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/fall_saigon.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/7652593/The-Vietnam-War-in-picturesthe-35th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-Saigon.html?image=4
The Vietnam War was the longest war in history. The
United States wanted to stop the spread of
communist. In August 1964, North Vietnamese
torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin attack Congress
passed the Southeast Asia Resolution which allowed
President Lyndon Johnson to conduct military
operations in the region without a declaration of war.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail was used by the North to
move men and supplies to the South. In fact, the Ho
Chi Minh Trail was made up of many trails. Ho Chi
Minh Trail, elaborate system of mountain and
jungle paths and trails used by North Vietnam to
infiltrate troops and supplies into South Vietnam
Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the decisive engagement in
the first Indochina War. It consisted of a struggle
between French and Viet Minh forces for control of
a small mountain outpost on the Vietnamese
border near Laos. It was also the climactic
confrontation of the First Indochina War between
the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary
Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist
revolutionaries
From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped over 2
million tons of ordnance over Laos in 580,000
bombing missions. The bombings were part of
the U.S. Secret War in Laos to support the Royal
Lao Government. Each year there continue to
be over 100 new casualties in Laos. Close to
60% of the accidents result in death, and 40%
of the victims are children.
The Cambodian Civil War was a conflict that
pitted the forces of the Communist Party of
Kampuchea. The war began with isolated
clashes along the land and maritime
boundaries of Vietnam. The communist
movement in Cambodia and Vietnam began
before WW2.
Saigon, capital city of South Vietnam, fell to North
Vietnamese forces on April 30th 1975. The fall of Saigon
(now Ho Chin Minh City) effectively marked the end of
the Vietnam War. By 1975, what remained of the South
Vietnamese Army was not capable of withstanding the
advance of the North and it was an inevitability that
Saigon would fall to communist forces.