Week 14 Reflection

What I learned about this week post was a lot. This week is about the Vietnam war now of course in high school we learned about this but to keep it real I really forgot all about it. Like I remember the basic of the war. For instance I knew that congress considers the Vietnam Era to be “The period beginning on Feb. 28, 1961 and ending on May 7, 1975 … in the case of a veteran who served in the Republic of Vietnam during that period,” and “beginning on Aug. 5, 1964 and ending on May 7, 1975. And also I remember  Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. But the new things I learned was that the Vietnam War cost the United States 58,000 lives and 350,000 casualties. It also resulted in between one and two million Vietnamese deaths. Congress enacted the War Powers Act in 1973, requiring the president to receive explicit Congressional approval before committing American forces overseas. What I also seen when reading over some things about the Vietnam war was some cause A parallel increase in support to the North from both China and the Soviet Union

An insurgency of communist Vietnamese (known as the Viet Cong) against the South Vietnam Army beginning in the late 1950s that grew into an ongoing guerilla campaign. Attacks on two U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 5, 1964, which greatly escalated U.S. military involvement in the region and led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving the U.S. president new authority to wage war. Increasing financial and military aid from the U.S. to South Vietnam in an attempt to limit the spread of communism in the area. Also the outcomes were Economic downturn and political isolation for Vietnam, which was only supported by the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe. In contrast to the fears of the U.S. government before the war, the creation of a unified, communist Vietnam did not start a "domino effect" of spreading communism throughout the countries of the region. The collapse of the South Vietnamese government in the spring of 1975, resulting in a unified communist government in the country. The deaths of as many as 2 million Vietnamese civilians, 1.1 million North Vietnamese soldiers, 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers, and 58,000 U.S. servicemen.