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The vietnam war mind map
- Vietnam tactics
- Dressed like everyday citizens so that they couldn't be told apart
- They had complex underground tunnels which
couldn't be detected by Americans
- These tunnels were also filled with lethal traps
and bombs
- Hanging on to America's belts - The viet cong would attack or ambush
American's near their own bases so that when they fought back they
destoryed thier own stuff and killed their own men
- They were supplied with weaponds from China and Russia
- They used the Ho Chi Min trail to supply war weaponds - this ran through Laos and
Cambodia so American's couldn't attack it, it was also burried in thick jungle
- They avoid battle unless the odds were heavily in their favour
- They used Guerilla tactics
- USA tactics
- They used heavily advanced machinery and weaponds
- Dropped Agent-Orange gas
- They bomb whole communities and jungle land to clear out the Viet Cong
- They were prepared to fight a war like WW1 or WW2 instead of a guerilla war
- Used Napam gas
- Search and Destory
- They used their own soilders as bait and then backed them up with air military
- They lived in stratigic hamelts to draw viet cong into loyal area's
- Zipoo raids
- Who was more effective?
- The American's preapred for the wrong war
- The viet-cong new the terrain very well
- American soilder's lost moral very quickly
- Most American's didn't know anything about vietnam or why they were fighting
- The Viet-Cong were more effective and won the war
- Effects of the war on the USA
- Cost the goverment billions of dollars
- Longest war America had been in
- 58,000 American troops died
- American soilders lost home support and mroal after the news that they were killing innocent people E.G The Mai Lia masacre
- Lots of anti war protests
- Kent State shooting
- Many war hero's werent celebrated and were treated badly
- Racial tensions because blacks fought alongside whites for their contry but still has less rights
- Affects of the war on Vietnam
- Thousands of people were left with the after effects of the Orange Agent gas which included
cancer, mutations and terminal illnesses. Many children were also orphaned
- American's were left in Vietnam
- Vietnam united
- The NVA massacred thousands of SVA once America left
- Farm land was polluted by American chemicals
- They had no money
- It's still the poorest country in the world
- Had to fight a war with Cambodia and China for their independance