The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War started in 1959 and it ended on April 30, 1975. This is how it started. In the 1950's the United Staes started to send troops to Vietnam. For the next 24 years there would a lot of tension in the United States. Through out these years the United States would send roughly 3 million troops to Vietnam. They also estimated that there was 2.5 million killed in all. A lot of Vietnam's history they were under the rule of the Chinese. The Cold war was at the height and the US leaders where worrying agout Vietnam. They were thinking about attacking Vietnam but they did not want tension between the Chinese and the Russians. They thought it might of led to a world war 3. During the world they said the best general was William Westmoreland. They said that he got a lot of young men that did not know much. The bad thing about this war was that we did not know where they were hiding and they knew where every hiding place was. And they used this to there advantage. Fighting in a jungle was said to be tortuous and no human felt good in going in there. A lot of servicemen did drugs and other stimulants while serving. It was normal for riots to happen in the US when the war was going on. These riots where led by veterans trying to stop the war that was going on. The US Goverment finally saw that it was approiate to start withdrawing troops from Vietnam. They did a cease fire deal on January 27th 1973. That is when we started to pull are troops out of Vietnam. The North Vietnamese finally conquered the south in 1975. The Vietnam War is a war that America will never forget. We lost a lot of good men there and a lot of people that disagreed with this war and who knows we might of been better if we did not go in the war.