Impact+of+War+on+the+Country+of+Vietnam



** Introduction Paragraph: ** The Vietnam war had a huge impact on the country of Veitnam. The war was a brutal war, not only for the American soldiers, but for the Veitmese people. The war was held on their own land. Bombs and chemicals were dropped all around their houses. In this horrific war between 5 to 7 million veitenmese people lost their lives and many more lost their homes and their way of life.

[] This picture is the most famous of all picture taken from the Vietnam War. The girl running in the middle is named Kim Phuc, at the time 9 years old. The American planes dropped napalm (jellylike gasoline bomb) on the town, and it hit the girl, burning her flesh
 * Napalm: **
 * napalm, incendiary (used) material developed during World war II by Harvard scientists cooperating with the U.S. army and used in bombs and flame throwers. Napalm is based on a mixture of gasoline, sometimes mixed with other petroleum fuels, and a thickening agent. The thickener, to which the term napalm was originally applied, turns the mixture into a thick jelly that flows under pressure, as when shot from a flame thrower, and  sticks to a target as it burns. One of the first thickeners used was an aluminum soap (a salt of aluminum and certain fatty acids). Later thickeners have been based on polystyrene and s imilar polymers .  **

Mid-level estimated that 65,000 North Vietnamese Civilians died from 1960-1975. 50,000 North Vietnamise civilians were mostly executed by the 1960.in 1995 estimated that 2,000,000 Vietnamese civilians on both sides died in the conflictVietnamese civilian dead range from 50,000 to "several million". In 1957 to 1975 North Vietnamese civilian deaths caused by American bombing range from Rummell's low estimate of 52,000.
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This picture shows how the civilians village were getting attacked.

Bombs destroyed over two million acres of land. They also sprayed the 72 million liters of chemical spray resulted in the death of many animals, and caused health effects with humans. The spraying destroyed 14% of Vietnam’s forests, destroyed agricultural yield, and made the seeds unfit for replanting. If the agricultural yield was not destroyed by herbicides, then it was messed up by the military they also set fire to haystacks, and soaked land with aviation fuel then they burned it. A total of 15,000 square kilometers of land were eventually destroyed. So it wasnt just one thing that destroyed the land, it was bombs, spraying of gases, animals and insects. So the land had no chance of surving during this war.
 * __ BOMBS AND SPRAY KILL THE LANDS __**

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**Conclusion:** This war was very distructive and violent. Some people even wonder if this war was even neccisary

· 2.5 million dead · Millions terrorised · Bombing flatterned large areas of Vietnam - more bombs dropped than all of WWII · One quarter of forests destroyed - Agent Orange · War led to starvation · 50,000 "American Asian " children born to Vietnamese women

[] ·  The combination of America’s massive military might and the tactics employed by the NLF all but ensured that the civilian population suffered appalling losses. · America dropped 8 million ton of bombs between1965 and 1973.

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​What happen in Vietnam? -By 1975 the US had withdrawn -Vietcong defeated ARVN in 1975 -Renamed Saigon Ho Chi Minh City -1976 North and South reunited under a communist government

​http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/impact_war_vietnam.htm · The impact of high explosive bombs continued after the war ended as many failed to explode on impact and have caused considerable problems since .

America also dropped anti-personnel mines by the thousands. One plane could drop a thousand of these in one flight. These mines could be made out of either metal or plastic and had the potential to inflict major injuries on anyone who trod on them.

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