An Analysis of the Vietnam War, Focusing Mainly on the American Perception of the War

Vietnam
The Vietnam war started long before the 1960's and 70's involvement of the United States and Communist China. The story of Vietnam dates back to the early 20th Century and this is how most Vietnamese view Vietnam in the 20th Century. For Americans however, Vietnam is a cold period in the 1960's and 70's in which the nation was more occupied with threat of the Communist giant than with the well being of it's own people. The American version of the war is not only in the body bags of the thousands of soldiers coming back, and the crying faces of their mothers, but also in a nation divided at home. One million Vietnamese citizens were slaughtered and the nation began to grow as soul as many questioned the governments actions.
In the 1920's and 30's Vietnam was a colony of the French Empire at the very end of colonialism. …