USA and the Vietnam war

The USA was the principal country that want to stop the Communism to be expanded. This had started in the nineteenth century when Vietnam had been ruled by France, the rebellion come in 1930 the French lost the control of Vietnam. So, the Japanese take the control. During the war, an anti-Japanese resistance movement emerge under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh that was Communist, the “The Viet Minh”. The Viet Minh control the North of Vietnam and in 1945 the independence of Vietnam was declared.

So, the French come back to take control again of Vietnam. In 1946 France broke in war with The Viet Minh. But in 1949 China became Communist and give support to Ho Chi Minh. The USA must react so they support France in trying to set up a non-communist government in South Korea. The Guerrilla tactics were very difficult to beat.

In 1954 the country of Vietnam was divided in North and South. USA had to prevent the elections in Vietnam since the Communists would win, the USSR and China were planning that, in addition if this happens all the countries of Asia would become Communist too.

Additionally, to prevent this USA support Ngo Dinh Diem to set up the Republic in South Vietnam. The regime of him was very corrupt, he used to put his family or supporters for the positions of power and he refuse to hold elections.

At that moment, The Viet Cong start to use the method of guerrilla against the South Vietnamese Government using the Ho Chi Minh trail.

By 1962 Kennedy send some troops to fight against The Viet Cong and the tension increase. In 1963 Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson succeeded him. And in 1965 USA was at war in Vietnam.

Although USA had superior technology and more soldiers and weapons, was a very difficult war due to the Guerrilla techniques, they use to appear in the middle of the jungle and attack. It was very difficult to identify them, they did not use uniform and USA soldiers did not distinguish them with the peasants that were there. So that is why it was very difficult for USA to fight with them.

Nowadays USA that it is the most famous and powerful country of the world have to fight no wit the communist if not with the terrorism that is a legacy of the communist. This people use to kill innocent people without caring their lives. They say that it is better to live with their god than in the real word with their relatives. This people use to be educated like this since there were born.

The recent case of terrorism was caused in the concert of Ariana Grande in Manchester the 24 of May of 2017. The man activated a bomb and killed 22 people and 59 had wounded, some of them kids. This happened at the end of the concert, the police could identify that the Terrorist Was called Salman Abedi, a man of 22 years and that this man could not be alone. Ariana Grande had make a tribute to the people that had death in the concert of Argentina the 5 of July of 2017.

What I can notice about these two cases is that USA is the one that try to stop the people that try to “destroy the world”. Is the one that take charge of the principal enemies of the world. This happened because of the manner of thinking of that people that cause a bad effect to the humanity. The same happened when the Communist appear in the Cold War they use to think different things than the capitalist and democratic.

Nowadays the Communist continued in alive in Cuba since 1959. It has survived more than 50 years of USA sanctions intended to topple veteran leader Fidel Castro, the communist leader.


sources:
http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-40007936
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19583447
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