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Ho Chi Minh: Hồ Chí Minh, born Nguyễn Sinh Côn, or Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Ngo Dinh Diem: Ngô Đình Diệm was the first president of South Vietnam. In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam
Harry S. Truman: (1884–1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–53). As the final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. Under Truman, the Allies successfully concluded World War II; in the aftermath of the conflict, tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.
These events and people are what led up to the Vietnam War. The South and the North of Vietnam were separated, and North Vietnam wanted communism, Viet Cong was also part of communism. South Vietnam didn't want communism, they were a coalition and so was Viet Minhm and they clashed or had problems because of this.
These three Vietnamese characters or figures played a major role during the Vietnam war. Ngo was the president of South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh was a communist leader sp he was with the North, and Vo Giap was a General in the VIetnam People's Army and a politician.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President (1961–1963).
Tet Offensive: A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. Early in 1968, Vietnamese communist troops seized and briefly held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year, or Tet.
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office.
Geneva Accords: On Indochina, the conference produced a set of documents known as the Geneva Accords. These agreements temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Việt Minh, and a southern zo
Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013) was a General in the Vietnam People's Army and a politician. He first grew to prominence during World War II, where he served as the military leader of the Viet Minh resistance against the Japanese occupation of Vietnam. Giap was a principal commander in two wars: the First Indochina War (1946–54) and the Vietnam War (1960–75). He participated in the following historically significant battles: Lạng Sơn (1950), Hòa Bình (1951–52), Điện Biên Phủ (1954), the Tết Offensive (1968), the Easter Offensive (1972), and the final Ho Chi Minh Campaign (1975).
Viet Cong: a member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954–75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
The Americans became allies with South Vietnam, because the Americans didn't like the idea of Communism, just like the South of Vietnam didn't,. The U.S., South Vietnam, and Viet Minh were coalitions. During the war the people who were communists had done a series of attacks on the coalitions the U.S., South Vietnam, and other allies. Some years before that happened the U.S. passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to react or by any means to fight back to bring peace in Southeast Asia.
Việt Minh was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó on May 19, 1941.
Robert Strange McNamara: (1916–2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.
John F. Kennedy (1917 –1963), was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Notable events that occurred during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, the Space Race—by initiating Project Apollo (which later culminated in the moon landings), the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and the increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Dwight Eisenhower (October–1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme comman
William Childs Westmoreland: (1914 –2005) was a United States Army four-star general. General Westmoreland was in command of all US military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968, including during the 1968 Tet Offensive.
Westmoreland adopted a strategy of attrition against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1968 to 1972.
All of these men were involved in the Vietnam war. They all played a role in which helped the U.S. a little bit. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to an allie or to the French. Johnson had sent U.S. troops to fight in the war. Nixon tried to come up with a plan to end the war and win it. JFK had increased U.S. involvement in the war. McNamara has escalated the involvement for the U.S. in the Vietnam war. Westmoreland adopted a tactic to use against the communists Viet Cong and North Vietnam during the war. And Eisenhower didn't want the U.S. to intervene.
The U.S. was more responsible to a certain extent. The reason why is because Johnson who was president at the time wanted the U.S. to intervene, Eisenhower didn't want the U.S. to intervene. The U.S. got themselves into a big situation instead of just staying out of other countries or nations businesses. The other countries had their own problems. The U.S. made that choice to come in and try to help the other countries against communism.