The reason Bich and her family had to leave Saigon was because the Vietnam war was coming to its end and the North Vietnamese were invading South Vietnam. The Vietnam war was North Vietnam with their communists allies and South Vietnam who was supported by the U.S and other anti-communist forces in that region. The reason the United States became involved in this war was because they didn't want South Vietnam to be taken over by communists and it was a part of their wider strategy of containment. Containment was a strategy to stop the spread of communism around the world. We failed in this instance. In the United States the war was very unpopular. People wanted U.S troops out of Vietnam and when they did leave some Vietnamese who were friendly to Americans were allowed to immigrate to the United States. The end result of the war was the North Vietnamese won. That brought with it the unification of North and South Vietnam with North Vietnamese rule. Communist rule also took over Cambodia and Laos. Another result is the huge number of casualties; more than 2,094,200 soldiers from both sides and around 420,000 to 2,500,000 civilians. This war is particularly interesting to me because my Grandpa was in the Navy at this time and was stationed off the coast of Vietnam. We also just learned about the strategy of containment in my American History class.
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| U.S. soldiers |
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| Some of many civilian casualties |
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