week 14

 The Vietnam war was a crazy time for the Americans. its to be called the longest war in American history and it was very unpopular. Many people died over 60,000 actually and heard to be 2million Vietnamese deaths. Many Americans ask if this war was nectary, I do not think it was. I feel as if it was, they were just helping their allies. They just wanted to bully them and show who was more dominant, but we lost many men and women because of it. The Americans where on the side of the south while the north tried to start with the south. The Americans sent over 2,000 troops to support the south, but that number grew.  In 1963 the number went up to 16,300. In 1963 the south lost fertile Mekong delta to the Viet cong. During the year of 1965 President Lyndon Johnson turned the war up. He sent air strikes to north Vietnam and ground forces. It was a total of 536,000 troops there by 1968. In 1968 Tet offensive by the north turned Americans against the war. This all changed because our next president brought our troops back and gave the south most of the responsibility for the war. Then came 1970 Nixon attempted to slow the flow of north Vietnamese sol dried and supplies by destroying community supply bases in Cambodia. this violated Cambodia neutrality and provoked antiwar protest on the nation’s college campuses. This was not posed to be done but the Americans did it anyway. Now that I’m reading more on it the Americans should’ve let the south have most of the responsibility from the jump, they could’ve helped but they have to look out for our troops as well. I feel like they did not do that all but they are doing a better job at it now which is good because those people are someone’s family.