Vietnam War Decisions

The War of Vietnam, one of America's deadliest battles that they never even finished. South Vietnam needed someone to aid and protect them from the South and America did help, but in the end certain decisions, people, and events made them pull out of it, leaving South Vietnam vulnerable. When they could, the North swarmed the South, taking villages, cities, and provinces while the United States stayed home and watched it all happen. American viewpoints on the situation turned once President Nixon resigned and a new party was hosting. The democrats were not happy with what has happening so they came to a conclusion and made of the most life changing decisions for everyone in the world. The spread of communism in Southern Vietnam was caused because

Now that Kennedy was gone, he would have to make decisions and take control in the ongoing Vietnam War. Some of these decisions good and some bad. One of Nixon’s tactics was to threaten North Vietnam with bombs. America pledged to drop a series of bombs on them unless they attended a conference, The Paris Peace Accords. In the past, North Vietnam discontinued their attendance to the conferences, basically saying they are out of the agreements. If North Vietnam attended a meeting and rejoined The Paris Peace Accords, America stated that they would not bomb them, so they went and made an agreement. The meeting was a success, they were able to get North Vietnam as well as the Viet Cong to sign. America thought that they had won the battle even making it a celebratory day called VV Day (Victory in Vietnam Day). Even though North Vietnam had Signed, they did not quite give up. In the terms, it stated “should the South require any military hardware to defend itself against any North Vietnam aggression we would provide replacement aid to the South on a piece-by-piece, one-to-one replacement”. At this point, America still had Advisers and other Military Personnel in the South, just as a safety. The spread of communism would not happen for a while until The Watergate Scandal. June 17 1952 was a hard day for President Nixon as his plans had been foiled. These plans did not have anything to do with

It started off as a great plan to send help, slowly that plan has been going downhill. 3 Presidents have come and gone and the war is still ongoing, America has made great attempts to stop it but most have just temporarily halted the North attacks. It was time for a new president to come into office and try to resolve the issue, this was Gerald Ford the 38th President of the United States. Ford was under a lot of pressure when he came into office, America was a divided country on opinions of the war. The majority of Democrats wanted to abandon South Vietnam and bring home their soldiers. Ford did not agree with this as he was the President and he wanted to keep America's word, he tried and begged to the congress to stay in the war, but as he was pleading, most of the congress got up and walked out on him. Nobody cared for Vietnam anymore, it had taken too much time, money, and lives for a war that still had not been resolved. The newly created democrat congress used their power to de fund the effort and this would send many American soldiers back home. Although this was great for those soldiers, it was not for South Vietnam. They could not defend themselves from the North by themselves but now they had no help. They were bound to be attacked and taken over, and they were. Once most soldiers had left, the North took their chances violating the peace agreement and attacked. On April 30th, the North had made it to