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Vietnam pronounced vi t n m vee-et-NAHM Vietnamese Vi t Nam pronunciation help info officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Vietnamese C ng h a x h i ch ngh a Vi t Nam pronunciation help info is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia It is bordered by China to the north Laos to the northwest Cambodia to the southwest and the South China Sea referred to as East Sea Vietnamese Bi n ng to the east With a population of over 86 million Vietnam is the 13th most populous country in the world The people of Vietnam regained independence and broke away from China in AD 938 after their victory at the battle of B ch ng River Successive dynasties flourished along with geographic and political expansion deeper into Southeast Asia until it was colonized by the French in the mid-19th century Efforts to resist the French eventually led to their expulsion from the country in the mid-20th…Read More about vietnam at WikiPedia
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I am very, very keen to live in Vietnam for a few months. I am a Westener, and looking for any work possible. Has anyone done the same? Is it exceptionally hard?
Answer:I don't know to be honest.
this is for homework so plz dont give me completely detailed answerseveryone, id actually like to research it myself, i just want to know how did the second indochinese war impact on the lives of vietnamese women and children? thanks! =]
Answer:The most important factor to understand was the difference between the strategic aims of the Americans and North Vietnamese. For the Americans, the war was a seen as a limited stand against Sino-Soviet expansion into southeast Asia without the use of nuclear weapons. For the Viet Minh and Cong, unification was seen as a nationalistic/socialistic rejection of foreign influence over Vietnam. Vietnamese communists wished neither American, Soviet or Chinese influence over the nation. It was the failure of understanding historical differences in perspective that led to the tragic development of the conflict. This has been admitted by Robert MacNamara, who was the Secretary of Defense under both President Kennedy and Johnson. Check out Gulf of Tonkin Resolution for further understanding of Executive Orders in Presidential War powers as well. You'll get bonus points.
Did the war in vietnam begin as a result of Noth Vietnam's invasion of the south or as a result of south vietnam's refusal to participate in the 1956 unification election and repression of political dissent? In other words, was it an international war of communist aggression, a civil war, or a revolutionary war? This is an essay topic for my vietnam class if you could please give me something to get started with i would greatly appreciate it.
Answer:The Second Indochina (Vietnam) War arose from the violations by the US of all aspects of the "1954 Geneva Agreements on Indochina" which the US was violating even as the agreements were being negotiated and signed. The US sent CIA operatives into the northern zone to destroy major infrastructure, such as dams, dikes, railway tracks and junctions, oil and coal depots etc plus to carry out a dis-information campaign against the Viet Minh saying that the Viet Minh would start persecuting the Catholics (15% of Vietnamese are Catholic and 85% are Mahayana Buddhist). There are several start dates used by historians for the Second Indochina War. They are -- 1954 - Before the First Indochina War (War of Independence 1947-1954) was finished. 1956 - When the US and Ngo Dien Diem would not allow nationwide elections in the southern zone for the reunification of Vietnam. Again in violation of the Geneva Agreements. 1959 - When the conference was held just outside of Saigon that created the National Liberation Front of Southern Vietnam (NLF). Mid 1960 - When the NLF attacked an ARVN (South Vietnamese) Police station -- the first military action between the NLF and the ARVN. February 1961 - this is the date the US military uses because of the "Death of the first US serviceman in Vietnam". Actually seven (7) other US servicemen had been killed in Vietnam between 1957 and 1961. ---===== The war was a civil war with foreign assistance on one side (at the start -- the US illegally creating the "Republic of South Vietnam" in violation of international law and the 1954 Geneva Agreements. It was also a war for the reunification of Vietnam, as called for in the Geneva Agreements. +++++ I suggest you download a copy, in English, of the "1954 Geneva Agreements on Indochina" and read the document fully. I further recommend that you read "The Pentagon Papers", as published by the New York Times. Read the Vietnamese chapters of several history books on Southeast Asia. I suggest "In Search of Southeast Asia" edited by Dr. David Chandler. Another is "History of Southeast Asia" by D.G.H. Hall. Both are American professors. There are a number of other books I can suggest from academics or journalists who worked in Vietnam and covered the war and some are conservative in their writings while others are more against the US in all aspects. Most of the journalists I could recommend were supportive of the US involvement at the start but quickly changed their minds within a couple of years.
Both myself and my girlfriend are british and would like to have 1 month travelling to Thailand, Cambodia and vietnam. We would like to get a wedding blessing in vietnam before returning to England and legally marrying at a registry office. How do I go about getting a wedding blessing in vietnam? Is there anyway I could organise this myself?
Answer:you can go to vietnam and ask them if you want a good answer, or there is always email
and what were the main factors in the Vietnam War which contributed to America's protest movement in the late 1960's and 1970's? Considering: President Nixon and LBJ and the Congress Policy and other things too. =] Ta
Answer:North Vietnam's government truly was Vietnamese. South Vietnam just represented the USA, which was an alien culture to the Vietnamese. As the war escalated, the bombing of innocent people only proved that the USA and South Vietnam government were not Vietnamese. In the Vietnam War, the costs overwhelmed the benefits over the long-term, for Americans. I include death and injury as well as expenses as costs. In the end, it is the American people who paid for this war. If you see the economy is in bad shape, are you going to favor spending on a war with no end? If you know someone who was killed or injured, would you favor a war with no end? What were the benefits of this war? Control of a region with a culture most Americans do not understand? How does that benefit most Americans? The benefits seem insubstantial and fleeting. Since at some level most Americans know that the costs overwhelm the benefits, then it was in our best interests to end each of this war even if it results in a lost. The Pentagon claims that they were successful in killing more of the enemy than American allies were killed. This may be true but the enemy did not surrender. The Vietnamese believed they were fighting for their country's survival and the Americans and their allies were not. The Americans gave up because they did not have as much at stake as the Vietnamese.