The Vietnam War | Part 1 | Vietnam and the War | Free Documentary History

logic and proportion have fallen be dead and the white night is speaking backwards and the red queens are the head remember what the D said feed your head your head this is the story of the US war with Vietnam and how it began Yes, the

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of Vietnam is one of conflicts and great dynastic struggles that have led to the fragmentation of the country over the centuries, in addition to inheriting the influence of many cultures. The idea that there has been a people called Vietnamese for the last 2,000 years is something of a modern invention after After centuries of war in Vietnam, which began in 1955, it would make international news and last 20 years.

The United States says they are fighting an army of peasants, so how could they lose? However, these people culturally know war much better than anyone else. The Americans wage a war that the United States considered necessary in the fight against communism. His very smart men actually thought it was the beginning of the communist takeover of the world. There was a genuine basic misunderstanding of the threat that communism posed to the United States and the rest of the world. rest of the

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world, one of the really amazing things about war is that such intelligent men could have been so wrong, the T offensive, the fact that the Viet Kong had entered the American embassy in Saigon caused so much damage that it turned The Americans in their opinion were totally against the wall.

The protests were not even so much the soldiers but their mothers because what the hell is my son doing in Vietnam? The devastation of this war continues to resonate today. Vietnam is the story, the story of two great river deltas, the delta of the Red River in the north and the Meong Delta in the south, the three geographical areas of Vietnam were first settled, as far as we know from archaeology, by three different ethnic groups, the Vietnamese in the north, the lovely people in that Central coastal strip belonging to several kingdoms known as Champa and then the Mikong delta were colonized by Cambodians.

The lovely people actually came from across the sea, probably from the northern coast of Borneo, and were great sailors, sailors and traders, and spoke a language related to Malay. and they developed their own civilization in central Vietnam, largely influenced by Hinduism and to some extent also by Buddhism. In India, they used to be the dominant kingdom or the dominant political society in the South China Sea for five or six centuries. It was the sham that controlled trade in the South China Sea and then expanded from Europe to China as it saw the arrival of Western traders as well as Muslim traders from India and the Middle East.

Gradually, Champa mostly converted to Islam, while Christianity became very important in the Central and Northern Reg regions, a full-scale war broke out between the northern and southern Vietnamese kingdoms. Some of their weaponry came from trade with the Westerners so that the Dutch supplied weapons to the Trin in the north and their ships crossed the Portuguese ships that supplied weapons from Maau, near Hong Kong, to the Newton family in the south of the Kingdom, They were the first European contacts, but were quickly followed by the Dutch and then the British and French before the Europeans arrived and throughout this period there was a flourishing of locals. quite sophisticated communities and societies, often with cultures that had borrowed elements from religion to the way kings ruled to the political organization of India rather than China Vietnam's interaction with Europe brought the arrival of Catholic missionaries,

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icularly the Portuguese, it was not until the AR Ral of the French missionaries of the mid-17th century that their influence in Vietnam was really felt, the most significant of these missionaries was Alexander D. roess, he studied the Vietnamese language and compiled a French dictionary , which opened the language to foreign influence.

The French converted an increasing number of Vietnamese from Confucianism to Roman Catholicism the emperor became angry and ordered the execution of many missionaries this was a turning point from friendly trade relations to aggressive behavior the French almost seemed to use the execution of their missionaries as a reason to invade were not all the territories unlike the British in India, the Portuguese and the Philippines, the Dutch in Indonesia, they decided to take over Vietnam and establish a colony, there was constant tension between the different regions of Vietnam and a Frenchman arrived in that context and, in fact, conquered Vietnam. 1860 the French seized the area near Saigon over the next two decades they advanced through central and northern Vietnam and French troops expanded their control over the six provinces in the Mikong Delta and formed a colony known as Koshin Shin.

They divided the country into those three regions. uh that had never been divided before France assumed control of all of Vietnam. French Indochina was formed in October 1887. Cambodia and the Laas were added in 1893. In the years that followed, French influence would play an important role in shaping Vietnam throughout its

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. it had been invaded by a stream of dynasties and, by the end of the 19th century, Vietnam had become vulnerable to French ambition. The Civil War years had led to a division between the North and the South. It was in this environment that resentment over the French occupation gave space for nationalism and then communism to increase the influence of Russia and China alarmed the United States.

South Vietnam is already under attack, but how did events lead to such a catastrophic loss of life and how necessary was America's involvement in a war so far from home in 1884? They took control of Vietnam forming the territories of Tonkin Anam and Kosin Shin, the French were interested in bringing Vietnam under French law and it was not long before French culture grew throughout the country. The French conquest was supported by some Vietnamese, including Catholics, but also some others thought that the French could bring modernization to Vietnam, so there were some Vietnamese who sided with the French and, including some who benefited economically , lands were distributed to them in the south,

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icularly in the Mong Delta, so a new class of landowners developed.

French influence spread, they soon established the bureaucracy and architecture of their cities, built town halls, courts and schools, the education system evolved for the EXP Patriots, but soon became a fashion for wealthy local residents as well as the capital of the dwarf section of Indochina. The Japanese, always so polite, do not disturb the appearance of an ancient government also carefully preserved by the French colonial administration. In a modern house built for her by the French Adala, the Empress of Anan raises her three attractive sons in a truly royal atmosphere that she accepts with oriental resignation. Judging by the obvious facts of the situation, it was clear to parents that if they wanted their children to rise in the bureaucracy and obtain positions, they needed to know the newly adopted new Latin alphabet, which came to be known as quatu or national script.

So Vietnamese cult culture was internationalized in a way that had never been done before and at the same time a familiarity with Western political ideologies, including communism, was generated. It was in this climate of French education that Hoochi Min was raised as the man who changed the history of Vietnam forever. When he was young, he really wanted to see the world and accepted a job on ships like De Camp. He traveled to the United States. He lived in London for a time, where it was rumored that he spent time as a cook and also lived in Paris.

While in Paris, he petitioned for independence and civil rights for the Vietnamese people from French rule when this failed in the US under President Woodro Wilson. Hoi Min became disillusioned, which fueled his communist zeal. He spent time in Russia and China before being imprisoned by Chang Kai. Sheek's reputation at home was growing and when he returned in 1941 he had almost hero status. He was very much a man of the world. He was educated by the French. He had traveled all over the world as a sailor. He worked as a chef. in London, at the Paris peace talks of 1919, he appeared at Versa and demanded

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dom from French colonialism for the Vietnamese people and was expelled.

Hoim Min was a member of the French Socialist Party which split in 1919 and joined the communist faction that founded the French Communist Party during World War II France had fallen to Nazi Germany in June 1940 the Vichi government in Paris immediately transferred the control of Saigon and Hanoi to Japan Japan enforced the right to land forces in Vietnam which they needed to block the transportation of War Materials through Vietnam to the Allies when Hoochi Min was released from prison in China, he returned to Vietnam to lead the Viet Min Independence Movement. They fought against French and Japanese Vichi forces during World War II.

Haimen would return to China and with a General Japan. and others established a communist resistance that fought against the Japanese in 1945, they took over the northern part of Vietnam. The south was liberated by the British who, to justify recovering their own colonies in the Far East, rearmed the Japanese to hold the country until the French reoccupied South Vietnam, the Japanese and the French were very anti-communist and The Communist Party of Vietnam had been founded in 1930 by Hoimi He Uh and the other Vietnamese Communists rejected both the Japanese and the French and they were the only large political party in Vietnam that opposed both the French and the Japanese, but at the end of the war, when both groups lost, the communists led by Hoim men were in a stronger position to take power.

I remember that many people at the same time talk a lot about h who they call alcohol at one point everyone thought he was somewhere like up there going down to H but obviously he was also a human being with some kind of ambition of his own people respected Hoochi Min as a great patriot and they were willing to support him were tired of being dominated by the French and now the Japanese and fought for their freedom he oversaw many successful military actions against the French and then against the Japanese occupation of Vietnam during World War II secretly supported by the Meanwhile, the United States Office of Strategic Services, hoi men, had formed an alliance with the United States and was rescuing French and American pilots shot down by the Japanese and delivering them to American forces in southern China as far as hoi men was able built an army with some support from the United States and was in a position to take power once the Japanese were defeated over the years hoi men had developed a significant army the country was in The Japanese who saved rice to feed their troops even exported it to Japan.

After the Japanese handed Vietnam over to the Viet in 1945, it is estimated that 2 million Vietnamese had dead. One of the problems with the end of World War II is that it led to a variety of other wars, particularly in Indochina, and the Vietnam War, which the United States inherited from the French and which it had lost, was in fact inherited from itself. Hoian when it had been an ally of the United States and I think the basic problem was Hoochi Men was nationalist first and foremost and first and foremost non-communist since 1945 American foreign policy was the containment of communism there is the famous domino theory that if Vietnam of the South fell into the hands of the communists, so would Cambodia, Thailand would spread across the Malay peninsula until eventually, Australia would become communist and a senator said the famous phrase: we don't want to start fighting them when they land on my Kiki beach.

I have no doubt that these very intelligent men, Mcnam and Rusk, really thought it was the beginning of the communist takeover. in the world I refer to that famous domino theory and everyone believed it and it was completely wrong. The French eventually reached a point where Hoim's men and the Vietnamese men in the north decided to resist and began attacking the French in Hanoi. in December 1946 and the war that lasted until 1954 began. Meanwhile the situation in French Indochina becomes more serious as fierce fighting spreads through Hanoi leaving misery and destruction in its wake, French troops advance into the country to confronting the well-equipped forces of the The Republic of Vietnam made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to massacre the city's entire French population.

The French let Vietnam be independent and that just pushed the country into communist hands because everyone wanted to be independent and only the communists were well organized,the only intention. From what I can tell, what men had over any other country was South Vietnam. President Eisenhower refused to help the French with air raids at the time of B. Ben, the men were so able to marshal his forces to get Soviet aid in and at the same time, prevent the Chinese from become frantic and get help from them too, and that was their determination with an extraordinarily brilliant general, the French fighting communism in Indochina as the ju52 planes lend their weight in an all-out offensive against the red jungle. strongholds of Vietnamese forces, particularly after China's fall to the communist regime and the start of the Korean War in 1949 and 1950 respectively, and the United States began providing massive military and political support to the French effort in Indochina beginning in 1950.

Initially, the Americans were very reluctant to support them, but partly in exchange for support for France and NATO in Europe, the Americans decided to support France in Indochina, which led to American financial support and advisors, and that type of fight for Indochina continues with the French. Pilots flying American planes take to the abandoned big guns to destroy communist divisions that had infiltrated French positions in the Hanoi delta. During the next four years of that war, the United States paid about 80% of the French military budget and at the same time the Chinese supported the Vietnam Independence Movement led mainly by communists and fought mainly in the North, many people from the South, such as everyone in Vietnam as Time Joy Viet due to their connection to their participation in the resistance.

They have the heart for it. War comes to peaceful rice burgers. The rich prize that the reds hoped to seize until the French, aided by the Vietnamese loyalists, threw them into the sea, but from the backwaters of war come the defenseless victims of aggression, the women, the children and the old and sick communism passed their path, they now have little more than a spark of life that propels them toward escape and sanctuary behind the French lons. It is clear that people on all sides were fighting for different reasons, Americans were fighting to stem this tide of Communism that would spread from China through Vietnam to the rest of Indochina and the rest of Southeast Asia.

Um, the Vietnamese, some of them may have thought they were part of an international movement, but many of them were just fighting for their own personal reasons, you know. to liberate the country against foreign occupiers or to get rid of the power of the landlords and that sort of thing, the war that broke out in 1946 lasted for eight years and had its culmination in the Battle of Dean brr in 1954, where a movement The French army's bold move goes completely wrong and the guerrillas under the command of General Zap out-fight and out-think them. The First Indochina War came to an end with the Battle of Diban Fu in 1954, which culminated in a general defeat for the French.

France agreed to withdraw its forces from all its colonies and a conference in Geneva decided on the division of Vietnam with control of the north handed over to the Viet Min as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Hoochi Min and the South nominally becoming the state of Vietnam under the Emperor. Bai. prevented Hoi Min from gaining control of the entire country after the division of Vietnam into North and South. The North is seen as a communist threat. Threat from the United States. The US feared that DM would not win in the north. The Viet Min had formed the National Liberation Front under the command of Hoochi Min, known as Viet Kong, and had begun a guerrilla war in the south of the country in an attempt to gain control.

The president returned to Vietnam with the acceptance of the last umor Bai in a referendum that expelled him and sent him into exile in France and became president. The South was still managed from early on until an election would be held that would then unite the country when Americans realized it. who would not win any elections against the communists, supported the prime minister DM in South Vietnam to establish an independent state that would be anonymous to North and South Korea due to the influence of the Korean War on American thinking when the French they lost at Ben Fu and Eisenhower had to decide what to do with the country he decided to support the South Vietnamese government and they supported that terrible man DM DM was like a South American dictator that some American general I think once said about He's a son of but he's our son of and that line of thinking ran through the American government when they look at their allies around the world and it was a mistake that half the villages were under communist rule in 1954 and it wasn't clear who was going to win, and in fact the United States and the other political groups also expected the communists to win, it was nothing great.

The American conspiracy to rule the world or anything they just didn't want the Russians to take power when they realized that Soviet communism, as they saw it, was a threat that would influence other parts of the world that they thought they could arrive and, as a consequence, Vietnam after the French were defeated at DM Benu was a prime candidate for American aid, so the CM regime immediately turned its attention to religious or religious political groups in the Mikong Delta and attacked them first, so there was fighting in the streets of Saigon in 1954 and 1955 and much of it spread to the Meong Delta there was a kind of Civil War in the early days of the South Vietnamese regime the divisions and unrest in Vietnam continued unrest intensified and the Vietnamese people continued to see Hoochi Min and the National Liberation Front as a way to regain their independence.

The United States continued to monitor the situation closely, concerned by the rapid rise of communism in Vietnam, which they considered a direct threat to them. This mood led President Kennedy to submit a report that was ultimately completed in more than half a century. millions of American troops and a bloody war that would last 20 years in the 20th century Vietnam had endured the invasion of France and China had seen the creation of Indochina under French rule and the development of French culture and influence in the years following the defeat of the French at the Battle of Dban Fu the Geneva peace conference divided the country with the South now in control led by GM supported by the United States North Vietnam was handed over to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam led by Hoochi Min formed the National Liberation Front also known When Viet Kong and an uprising against the South began, the National Liberation Front was gaining significant strength in Vietnam for many Vietnamese, Vietnamese men were heroes to American leaders.

Today men represented communism and a significant threat to man has power in his mortal hand. to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life and yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our ancestors remain a problem throughout the world, Vietnam was able to recruit in the South Central and North , religious groups in the South were unable to recruit in the center and the north, the Vietnamese nationalist party was more based in the north, and no one's followers were largely found among Vietnamese Catholics and particularly in their base of operations in central Vietnam, so the Vietnamese built the largest political organization of the Vietnamese.

They were able to recruit the peasants, while most of the other political groups did not show much interest, it is a communist party, it is its discipline, there are many people who have the ability to take power from the top down to the villages and mobilize a large number of people in the early 1960s Hano's policy shifted further toward supporting the guerrilla war already developing rapidly in the South, as the United States had built up its own forces, they had surpassed the Geneva limit for foreign forces in the South. Vietnam, this administration's position has been carefully considered and we have tried to make it as clear as we know about the government's concerns.

President Kennedy promised DM that it had not been long since the United States had failed to defeat the communists. in North Korea and intended not to lose to them again in Vietnam in 1961. 400 American Green Beret special advisors are sent to train soldiers in fighting Viet Kong gorillas under the command of Hoochi Min in October this year. General Maxwell Taylor briefs the President. and advises Kennedy to expand the number of American military advisors and send 8,000 combat troops. The number of troops sent by Kennedy will eventually exceed 16,000 in 1963. Kennedy made a serious mistake by getting involved as he did with the American Force in that part of the world.

He thinks that this great monolithic Soviet-style communism would lead the way when I think it could. have played it differently and fought it more subtly. The big word that Vietnam gave us was escalation because it begins with Kennedy sending only 400 military advisors. because in reality the Special Forces organize and control the action and then more enter and then more enter, he should have fought with the limited one that he initially gave with the development of the special forces, the green ray as they are called and and other small units tactics and did not create this great wave of North Vietnamese resentment South Vietnam is already under attack sometimes by a single assassin sometimes by a band of guerrillas recently by false battalions the peaceful borders of Burma Cambodia and India have been repeatedly violated and the peaceful people of Los Angeles is in danger of losing the independence they gained not long ago.

The end result was that the United States decided that the South would lose very quickly if it did not change its policy and that the United States needed to advance with large-scale regular forces, the Chinese, whether communist or nationalist, were ancient enemies of the Vietnamese, it was the threat of Soviet communism and the fact that China had fallen with m in a way that was helped by the The Soviets were for the Americans, they had created this monster in their imagination and they had to go and fight it. There is something here, what EXA is in the final analysis, is their war, they are the ones who have to win it or lose it.

We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men there as advisors, but they have to beat the people of Vietnam against the communists. All we can do is help and we are making that very clear, but I disagree. with those who say we should withdraw, that would be a big mistake. President Kennedy was in conflict with Vietnam, he realized that he could not give up the territory, but in July he faced the crisis, despite the increase of American support, the South Vietnamese army was not gaining ground. against Viet Kong forces, the regime of Vietnam's president, NM, comes to an end in a wave of violence a few days before the army revolt.

These last photographs showed a man who did not seem to have any premonition of the horrible death he was going to meet as the situation in Saigon was escalating as the Viet Kong fought against DM, which ultimately led to his death. The fire is concentrated on tanks and armored vehicles that block the road to the palace for 2 and a half hours. The palace comes under heavy bombardment before the white flag is raised. Meanwhile, the NGO Den Newu and his brother had fled the palace in disguise, were later captured and died in an armored vehicle that was taking them to prison.

Three weeks later in the US, the nation was shocked by the tragic assassination of President Kennedy. on November 22, 1963 at 1:25 the companion moves to the center of the city death is 6 minutes away in a warehouse a sniper with a rifle in position Waits the applause of the crowd almost muffles the three shots the aim of the Killer is deadly from Dallas Texas The Flash apparently President Kennedy died at 100 p.m. Central Standard Time 2:00 Eastern Standard Time About 38 minutes ago Vice President Lyon Johnson left the hospital in Dallas, but we don't know where he went, presumably he will be sworn in shortly and become the 36th President of the United States lynon Johnson was thrust into the presidency after the assassination the country was in disarray the worsening situation in Vietnam had been Kennedy's most pressing problem and Johnson inherited America's commitment to Vietnam and the defeat of communism President Johnson despite all his great virtues he was not very strong in foreign policy.

He would have been in the Navy during the Pacific War and believed that overwhelming force worked militarily and, secondly, he was a great Texan merchant. He thought that if he waved the big stick he could negotiate with hoi hoi. Min didn't wantnegotiate with anyone he knew, eventually he would win. They could control how many people they were losing and all they were doing was keeping casualties below their birth rate in the August 1964 Tong Kin Gulf incident. triggered a reaction from President Johnson, the determination of all Americans to carry out our full commitment to the people and government of South Vietnam will be shaken by this outrage, ultimately this reaction would lead to the start of a war in Vietnam, a war that still resonates the justification remains a question to this day lynon Johnson became the 36th president of the United States after the assassination of John F.

Kennedy in November 1963 inherited an economic crisis in the United States that led him to proclaim a war against poverty had inherited another conflict a war against communism and the United States' commitment to Vietnam The increasing strength of Viet Kong and the rise of communism required more resources from Johnson, but until now he had resisted the need to aggravate the situation; However, in August 1964, President Johnson decided to act after the events in The United States Navy's Ton Kin Gulf destroyers conduct routine patrols from time to time. On Sunday, August 2, 1964, the Destroyer Maddox was on such a patrol shortly after afternoon, the calm of the day broken as headquarters was in the Gulf of Tonk. flashes in reverse and a spiromatic report appears that American warships have been attacked by Vietnamese patrol boats that they use as an excuse.

The Tonan Gulf incident illustrates this capability for instant retaliation against unprovoked attacks. The captain of the USS Maddox sent a report that three North Vietnamese torpedo boats allegedly fired on them, but then sent a warning that it had been bad weather and not an attack, however President Johnson ignored the retraction and ordered the bombing of the USS bases. torpedo boats and the oil depot's president, Lyndon Johnson, won almost unanimous approval. US Congress approval to escalate the war in Vietnam and bomber planes were sent north. He knew everyone in the Capitol and could accomplish whatever he wanted.

They gave him this abyss of tonin resolve that, he said, was like grandma's nightgown covering. everything and he just gave um C Blan a a a a to fight as he wanted. It is my duty to the American people to report that renewed hostile actions against United States ships on the high seas in the Gulf of Tonin today have forced me to order the United States military forces to take action and respond with isod violence by firing bullets charging you. old enough to kill but not to vote you don't believe in war for that gun you do and even the river Jordan has B is floating but you say I over and over again, my friend, ah, don't you believe we're on the brink of destruction, but repeated acts of violence against the United States Armed Forces must be met not only with an alert defense but with a positive response. is taking place as I speak to you tonight I do not believe we are at the point of destruction Large scale military action in Vietnam had begun Viet Kong retaliation with a bomb attack on a US air base One of The biggest impacts of the United States ground troop buildup in South Vietnam was that the communist guerrillas in the South began to recruit themselves at a higher level and, in fact, from 1964 to 1965 the communist gorillas quadrupled their recruitment while the United States The United States was amassing its forces at an even faster rate.

By the hundreds of thousands, the American commitment on the ground in South Vietnam increases from 12,000 to 200,000 and suddenly everyone in America is affected despite a campaign to reduce US involvement. Johnson's attack on Vietnam is met with much support in the United States and his popularity increases. He wins a landslide victory to be president of the US within a year. He had given the command to begin operation Ro ring Thunder. There have been many and I know that I am a force on both sides built with the contribution of North Vietnam. of regular troops who also entered into the fighting and the destruction that was taking place in the villages of South Vietnam, particularly in the populated areas where the impact was greatest, but also in the forested areas, the level of destruction increased enormously from the mid-1960s onwards and had a huge impact on the livelihood of the Vietnamese people in the way people tried to survive in the cities by fleeing the countryside where the war was strongest to the cities.

The cities began to fill with rural refugees. Protest movements developed in the cities. The continued arrival of American troops and a large concentration of the South Vietnamese army meant that the United States could inflict heavy casualties not only on the North Vietnamese regulars who had moved south, but also on the guerrillas and Communist regulars of South Vietnam. Troops and large-scale riots in Saigon continue. We have created a national PL to help South Vietnam defend its independence and I intend to keep that bomb. The United States could not politically invade the North because they had not declared war.

This was a police. action so that they could not invade the north, but they did feel that they could bomb it. This was called Operation Rolling Thunder and they just tried to pulverize all the industry, all the supply, everything in the north and in a month they would do it. launch as many ordinances from North Vietnam as had been launched during all of World War II this bombardment of airstrikes would last 3 years along with the deployment of Agent Orange this was just the beginning of a war that would last many years war that would affect Vietnam and United States in the next decades some people are made for W the flag is red, white and blue and when the B walk to the CH that points the Canon at you it's not me a me No or it's It's not me, it's not me.

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