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Week 14 Reflection: Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was the longest war of the United States was involved in and lasted longer than any other conflict. The Vietnam war had over 60,000 American casualties and 2 million Vietnamese casualties. Although I did not learn much about the Vietnam war in school, I know just from its portrayal in the media how brutal it indeed was. So basically, Vietnam was under French colonial control since the 19th century, and the Vietnamese wanted independence from France. A man named Ho Chi Minh advocated for Vietnamese independence and was initially a socialist/nationalist. Ho Chi Minh eventually turned to communism out of necessity, and the United States opposed this. Ho Chi Minh even modeled the Vietnamese declaration of independence after the American constitution, but Americans did not care because he was a communist. The U.S. went on to support France and began funding the French-Indochina war between 1945-1954 to keep communism out with "domino theory." The united states then
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