The Vietnam War

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THE VIETNAM WAR



At last for thirteen years of fighting with North Vietnam and allies with
South Vietnam, The Paris Peace Talks Treaty was finally signed, the war was ended. The
Peace Treaty created a compromise to reunite the two Vietnams, and allow the United
States to withdraw their military forces. This ended any conflict between Vietnam and
the United States.
The United States was drawn into the war based on the economic and the
previously controlled colony of France need to secure the rubber and banana plantations,
for the South Vietnams businessmen. Also oil from off shore drilling was located close to
the port of Saigon, which used the port to supply oil tankers.
The treaties of S.E.A.T.O.{South East Asia Treaty Organization}joined
Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, The Phillipines, and the United
States, to become allies to the Republic of South Vietnam.
The division of Vietnam into two separate nations gave little choice for
the allies to support. The South Vietnam resources and the port of Saigon would be a free
republic as long the allies could defend them from domination from the industrialized
nation of North Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the U.S.S.R.
and supplied by Soviet block with weapons. Led by Ho Chi Mien a nationalist schooled
in Russia, The North Vietnam armies stood in opposition to the South Vietnam
Government. After the fall of Saigon the city was renamed Ho Chi Mien City and still
has that name to
Another ally to North Vietnam government was the weather and terrain
vast jungles, swamps, rice patties, and mountains made slow to impossible travel for the
large military machine U.S. Monsoon season virtually stopped all actions of the
Americans for about ninety days a year. Typhoons were always a threat to the South
Vietnam allies grounding flights and stopping highway supplies. Heat and humidity of ...