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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
American History II
American History II students are completing their unit on the Vietnam War.
EXTRA CREDIT: What do you believe were the most important factors that decided the outcome of that war?
Some of the most important factors that decided the outcome of the war were body count and the Tet Offensive. The person with the most territory was not winning in the Vietnam War. Victory was based on body count. If 100 american soldiers died but 1,000 Vietnamese died, it was seen as a victory. The Tet Offensive was the turning point in the war. It was a large scale attack by the NVA on the major cities occupied by the US. After this happened, many people began to not support the war.
The Vietnam war was like no other war to date. Usually, when you are in war you fight for and try to take over territory,this documents your accomplishments and progress. This was not the case in Vietnam, we determined winning by the body count. This strategy lead to many lies on how many of the enemy really died so it showed that we won in any of the fire fights that we had. Ultimately this lead to a false number of casualties and deaths. Another Important factor in the war was the Tet offensive, after this victory we had turned the tide of the war by winning this major turning point in the entire war.
The most important factors that determined the outcome of the war was that we didn't learn about the Vietnamese culture before we went to Vietnam. We should have learned about their war background and the layout of the land. If we would have maybe the outcome of the war could have been different if we learned these lessons before engaging in war. Hopefully we have learned these lessons so next time we think before we act.
Some of the most important factors that decided the outcome of the war were body count and the Tet Offensive. The person with the most territory was not winning in the Vietnam War. Victory was based on body count. If 100 american soldiers died but 1,000 Vietnamese died, it was seen as a victory. The Tet Offensive was the turning point in the war. It was a large scale attack by the NVA on the major cities occupied by the US. After this happened, many people began to not support the war.
ReplyDeleteThe Vietnam war was like no other war to date. Usually, when you are in war you fight for and try to take over territory,this documents your accomplishments and progress. This was not the case in Vietnam, we determined winning by the body count. This strategy lead to many lies on how many of the enemy really died so it showed that we won in any of the fire fights that we had. Ultimately this lead to a false number of casualties and deaths. Another Important factor in the war was the Tet offensive, after this victory we had turned the tide of the war by winning this major turning point in the entire war.
ReplyDelete-Brandon Caswell
The most important factors that determined the outcome of the war was that we didn't learn about the Vietnamese culture before we went to Vietnam. We should have learned about their war background and the layout of the land. If we would have maybe the outcome of the war could have been different if we learned these lessons before engaging in war. Hopefully we have learned these lessons so next time we think before we act.
ReplyDelete-Alexandra Bartmess