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The documentary Last Days in Vietnam begins by setting the stage with the summary of the Paris Peace Accords in January 1973. This treaty called for the cease-fire of North and South and the removal of American troops. After the cease-fire, there were somewhere between five to seven thousand Americans left and between 150,000 to 200,000 South Vietnamese who had worked with the Americans. The Ambassador was Graham Martin. On March 10, 1975, the North Vietnamese launched a massive invasion into South Vietnam. As the North moved south a flood of refugees pushed further south when Da Nang fell there were 500,000 refugees rolling to Saigon and 160,000 North V Vietnamese solders right behind them. Many of the Military and CIA at the embassy thought …show more content…

While there is a Plan for how to do evacuations in all embassies around the world, The plan only covered the Americans and no South Vietnamese. Because the ambassador would not allow them to even plan an evacuation, a handful of the military personal and CIA agents carried out black ops to get high risk south Vietnamese out of the country. Present Ford asked Congress to appropriate $722 million for the emergency military in South Vietnam; at least allow the evacuation of the Americans and the endangered South Vietnamese to places of safety. Even though Ford knew Congress would not approve the request, he felt he owed it to the Vietnam to ask. By this point, half of the South Vietnamese had disintegrated. The Embassy team wanted to at the least put a team together and the ambassador kept telling them no, he would not have that kind of talk. One of the major cities to fall was Can Tho. Even after that attack, the ambassador would not allow the evacuation of Saigon. The Four plans of evacuation; the first option was you take commercial ships right up the Saigon River to about a few bocks of the embassy to the docks to get them loaded. The second option was to use the continental and commercial aircraft out of Tan San Nhut Air Force Base to bring anyone you

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was getting ready to pull out anyway (182). These points are highlighted when Thieu asked Haig if he had ever seen a peace accord where the enemy was allowed to stay in invaded territories. “If Russia had invaded The United States, would you agree to a peace accord that allowed them to remain in your country

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Nixon wanted to end the war just like every other American. He had many plans for this war and one of them was called Vietnamization. Vietnamization was a policy that would replace U.S. troops with South Vietnamese troops and supply them with supplies and weapons (Rubel 182). It was a way to retreat U.S. troops and end involvement in the war. Even though he ended involvement in the Vietnam War by withdrawing U.S. troops, he decided to bomb enemy forces in Cambodia (Lillegard 71).

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the Vietnamese soldiers lost a lot of food supplies and lost some of their hiding positions. The war began with an alert from the two U.S. destroyers docked at the Gulf of Tonkin, they were attacked by North Vietnamese troops. What the U.S. did not know or were confused about was were they in Vietnam waters, or were they in a different area near Vietnam waters? Having several incidents occurring President Lyndon B. Johnson declares war on Vietnam for attacking one of ours without a reason to do so or without a provoke of any sort. That was when the Vietnam war began and Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Vietnam to try and take them over with just invading

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We will never know what would off been, with the untimely death of Roosevelt and the reactions of an unexperienced Truman. Truman’s government feared soviet expansion which saw the ‘identification of Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh as tools of Moscow’ . This lead to Truman’s policies of keeping strong friendship with other western powers at a time of communist expansion, especially with the French who he helped supply. This decision to turn a blind eye to the future of Indochina would set apart the revolutions ideology and focus just on the communist aspect; which would set course for the future and end with the devastation of not only a country but the losses of 50,000 American lives all at the expense of reducing the expansion of

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Explain the circumstances when Americans first went to support South Vietnam. President John F Kennedy sent military advisors to help the south Vietnamese army. The United states bombed landmarks and cities in North Vietnam. The Americans thought they would win the war because they had modern weapons. They used firepower and bombs to prevent Communist aggression.

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The Vietnam War was one of the deadliest wars, fought by North Vietnam and South Vietnam in 1955. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, whereas South Vietnam was supported by the United States. The Vietnam War began when a North Vietnamese torpedo boat attacked the U.S.S. Maddox and the U.S.S. Turner Joy in the Gulf of Tonkin. Following the declaration of the war, more than 500,000 draftees chose not to report for duty, some burned their draft cards, some skipped the induction, and some even fled the country. These people were known as “draft dodgers,” anyone who left the country during this time faced a number of consequences, including imprisonment or even being denied entry back into the United States.

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Da Nang was the start of the United State’s involvement in Vietnam, and it allowed transport for ground forces (“The Vietnam War”). “Present at the beginning of U.S. commitment to the Vietnam War, the Marine Corps was also there at the end. In 1975, Marine Corps elements took part in the final evacuation of South Vietnam as the country fell to the North Vietnamese” (“Marines Continue to Land at Da Nang”). All of the soldiers from the United States fought long and hard trying to win the Vietnam War, but the marines were the ones left to conclude the United States

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Prior to April 30, 1975, Vietnamese civilians were trying to flee the country because they feared what would happen after the South Vietnamese invaded. When America eventually pulled out, a month before the Fall of Saigon, they began transporting orphans to the US and globally. The US evacuated 7000 at risk Vietnamese from the South by helicopter, but many were left behind and they made their own attempt at escape. People who were

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“Richard M. Nixon declared his support today for President Johnson’s efforts to win peace in Vietnam and said that to achieve a ‘united front’ he would be willing as president-elect, to travel to Paris or Saigon to help ‘get the negotiations off dead center.’” This set Nixon off to a good start in the public eye since he was already and gave him a head start on negotiations since he was already hard at work trying to reach a compromise and end the

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At a news conference, President Richard Nixon says that the Vietnam War is coming to a “conclusion as a result of the plan that we have instituted.” Nixon had announced at a conference in Midway in June that the United States would be following a new program he termed “Vietnamization”—which basically was a strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam but the process was deeply flawed from the beginning.—under the provisions of this program, South Vietnamese forces would be built up so they could assume more responsibility for the war. Also, in his speech, Nixon pointed out that he had already ordered the withdrawal of 60,000 U.S. troops however, President Nixon—like all the other past presidents at some point in their lives or terms.—took the

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It was 1965 and the first U.S. troops were landing in South Vietnam, there were 3,500 U.S. Marines added to the already 25,000 advisers in the country. This war would define how we view life for decades and generations. Most people thought it was a mistaken war with no purpose other than to stop the flow of communism in Asia and the fear of others would follow, and add to the strength of the Soviet Union during the height of the cold war. Some people turned the war into a racist battle ground to justify the uprising and protest against the war. The troops were poorly armed and on average fought 240 days a year when compared to WW2 with only 40 days a year for infantrymen.

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As we discussed in class, Nixon ended the war by pulling troops from South Vietnam, which led to the Fall of Saigon, where many innocent people were left behind and taken by North Vietnam. The US spent billions of dollars on the Vietnam War, just to lose. The US could have used that money to benefit its citizens. It also left a lot of innocent South Vietnamese citizens, who helped the US, behind. Many of those people could have been saved, but they weren’t.

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By 1975 South Vietnam had fallen under the control of the communist government. America’s longest war was over, but it took more than 58,000 American

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Richard Puz once said, “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” Throughout The Book Thief, this idea is portrayed through the life of Liesel, a young German girl living during the reign of Hitler. The many deaths of her loved ones began to construe her character as strong and fearless at a young age. In the novel, Liesel loses her biological family, her Jewish friend Max, and the people of Himmel Street. All the loss has left Liesel distraught and their lasting memories help her develop into a well-rounded character.

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In 1969, President Nixon gave a speech introducing his plan to pull the United States out of the war. The plan, Vietnamization, would consist of building up the South Vietnamese forces while removing US troops from combat. This plan instilled that the South Vietnamese forces would assume more responsibility for the war while US troops went home, as Americans had demanded. April of 1970 proved to sway from Nixon 's plan of removing troops as he announced that US troops would be entering Cambodia. An explosion of protests resulted, including the Kent State Incident previously mentioned.

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