The Similarities Between President Richard Nixon And The Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was the longest war in American history, which was an event in the Cold War. There was 60,000 Americans deaths and 2 million vietnamese deaths. Vietnam was divided between communist north and anti-communist south. The South refused to hold elections in 1956, in 1958 the communist-led a guerrillas which war a battle with the south's government. The United States supported the south so they sent 2,000 soldiers which grew to 16,000 in 1963. The president of the south made air strikes at North Vietnam and sending 560,000 land forces in 1956. The new president Richard Nixon with drawing the American troops and made the south responsible for the war. Nixon also made the American go and destroy the communist bases. In 1975