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 * Section B. – Summary of Evidence **

The Vietnam War took place during the Cold war period, specifically from 1955 to 1975 and it was between the NATO and North Vietnamese. It’s said that the Vietnam War started in 1955 as this when American forces became involved due to an attack that was led by Ho Chi Minh[i], the leader of Vietnam after he declared their independence shortly after WW2 in 1945[ii]. However there were other factors that led towards the American involvement in the Vietnam War which is the focus of the film “Platoon”.

US military involvement came in 1965, however, there were tensions between NATO and Vietnam can be dated back to the first Indochina war in 1946 involving the French after their invasion of Vietnam in 1858[iii]. The Indochina war began after Ho Chi Minh created the Viet Minh, which was a force that would fight for and independent Vietnam. The involvement of the Americans would soon become a major factor from 1950 as the Viet Minh, under the communist rule of Ho Chi Minh, would receive military funding from the USSR as well as China[iv] after becoming a communist country in 1949. The USA donated 15million dollars to the French forces in Vietnam[v] as they would now be a large communist threat as this was the start of the Cold War and they could not afford for another country to fall to communism. In 1954 the Geneva accords were presented which stated that all Viet Minh soldiers would go to North Vietnam and a cease fire will be held as the French had suffered a large defeat, which would rely on more US funding[vi]. Years later after the national liberation in south Vietnam in 1956, the US became more involved after several attacks on American units by the North Vietnamese, their military involvement became more heavy where a total of 200,000 soldiers would arrive in south Vietnam by 1965[vii].

There are several views on the American involvement in the Vietnam war, some believe that it was the right decision to make, some believe otherwise. Richard Nixon expressed his views on American involvement, “//We failed to understand that the war was an invasion from North Vietnam, not an insurgency in South Vietnam. North Vietnam shrewdly camouflaged its invasion to look like a civil war, but in fact the Vietnam war was the Korean war with jungles” **[viii]**. //I believe that Nixon is saying that this war was a concern of the USA as North Vietnam followed communism, and in order to fight a threat the USA had to step in. However others have disagreed with the USA involvement in the war and believe that it should have remained an internal affair and not cost the USA huge losses, which led to the withdrawal of American forces in Vietnam.

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[i] []- article -Author Unknown. [ii] [] - Historic Timeline - Author Unknown <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[iii] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] - Historical Time line by Jennifer Rosenberg <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[iv] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] - Historical timeline - author Unknown. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[v] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] - Historical Time line by Jennifer Rosenberg

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[vi] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] - author Edwin E. Moîse <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[vii] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] - histrocial timeline <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[viii] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> The wrong war: why we lost in Vietnam by Jeffery Record - [|http://books.google.com/books?id=VRekjjSA5uIC&pg=PA24&dq=Invasion+of+vietnam&hl=en&ei=U6NSTsvPGYTc4QShutXzBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Invasion%20of%20vietnam&f=false]