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Researched and arranged By:Adebayo Tayo & Samin VossoughiRadCourse: Peace& WarProfessor Giorgi Pataridze

Events that led to the Vietnam War The Collapse of Europe

Bipolar Power Soviet Expansion United states foreign policy

Cold War

Vietnam War

How, Why and When the Vietnam War Started?

Who: North and South Vietnam

What: A war fought to keep communist North Vietnam from gaining control over anti-communist South Vietnam and to stop the spread of communism

When: December 1956 - April 1975

Where: Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

Why: The USA was trying to stop the spread of communism

The highlighted countries are all involved in the Vietnam war

North VietnamViet CongKhmer RougePathet PaoAnti-communistforcesSouth VietnamUnited StatesSouth KoreaThailandAustraliaNew ZealandKhmer RepublicKingdom of LaosCommunist forces

Factors that caused the Vietnam War and its escalation

ESCALATION

From Light Heavy

Few Many

Intergroup conflict

Factors that caused the Vietnam War and its escalation

TheVietnam Warwas derived from the symptoms, components and consequences of theCold War.

During the war, the country had been overrun by the Japanese

The French had got themselves into a difficult military position

South Vietnam Under DiemDiem claimed that his newly created government was under attack from Communists in the north.

In late 1957, with American military aid, Diem began to counter-attack.

The National Liberation FrontThe Communists supported the creation of a broad-based united front to help mobilize southerners in opposition to the government in South Vietnam.

Negotiation: The Paris Peace AgreementIn early January 1973, Nixon convinced that they would not abandon the South Vietnamese army if they signed the peace accord.

The Paris Peace Agreement did not end the conflict in Vietnam

Longest and Most Unpopular War58,000 Americans lost their lives

The oldest man killed was 62 years old; the youngest, 16.61% of the men killed were 21 or younger.304,000 were wounded

75,000 were severely disabled The United States spent over $200 billion dollars on the war.

Lost on all sidesSouth Vietnam195,000430,000 civilian dead220,357313,000 military dead1,170,000 wounded

United States58,307 dead;303,644 wounded

South Korea5,099 dead; 10,962 wounded; 4 missingAustralia500 dead; 3,129 wounded

New Zealand37 dead; 187 wounded

Thailand351 dead; 1,358 wounded[Philippines9 dead;64 woundedTotal dead: 479,660807,303Total wounded: 1,490,000+

North Vietnam & Viet Cong65,000[ civilian dead444,000[11,100,000 military dead or missing[600,000+ wounded[

China1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded[

Soviet Union16 dead[3

North Korea14 dead[

Total dead: 455,4761,170,476Total wounded: 608,200

WHY DID UNITED STATE LOSE THE VIET WAR?

The North Vietnamese conducted a Peoples war in which everyone played a part.

The ambiguity of relative power also caused the miscalculation.

Recent development : where are they today?

Secretary-general of the Vietnam Communist Party (VCP), Nguyen Phu Trong

Vietnam Today

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