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Term Paper Title	Jonathan Flores
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                                             Jonathan Flores
                                             12/6/1998
                                             U.S. History
                                             Muhich, Wellman

                         Vietnam

     TO TET: THE U.S.- NORTH VIETNAMESE WAR, 1965-1968

     In 1965 the United States and North Vietnam went to war. It was a war

that neither side maybe have sought, but it was a war each was prepared to

fight in order to achieve its objective. Part of the conflict that helped spark the

fuel to the fire of the war, was the accusation from North Vietnam to the U.S.

and from the U.S. to Vietnam that each other was guilty of "aggression" in

the South. In its public defense of U.S. policy, Aggression from the North:

The Record of North Vietnam’s Campaign to Conquer South Vietnam, the

State Department in 1965 argued that South Vietnam was "fighting for its life

against a brutal campaign of terror and armed attack inspired, directed,

supplied, and controlled by the communist regime in Hanoi."

     That "flagrant aggression" meant that a "communist government has

set out deliberately to conquer a sovereign people in a neighboring state." Just

as the United States called upon North Vietnam to abandon its "aggression,"

so too the Hanoi government said the peace depended upon the Americans

ending their "intervention and aggression in South Vietnam." To the North

Vietnamese, American bases and troops amounted to "intervention and

aggression" in violation of the Geneva Agreements, thus denying the

"peaceful reunification of Vietnam."

     DECISIONS FOR WAR

     In late 1964 the increase of support for the Vietcong was put into

effect. And by sending North Vietnamese forces into the South, it could bring

about the early collapse of the Saigon government. 1st regular unit began its

trek to the South in October of 1964. The North Vietnamese were worried

that there might be some U.S. intervention but they Vietcong soon realized

that the U.S. were not retaliating after many incidents an impressive Vietcong

victories.



     On the 1st of November in 1964, the Vietcong attacked the U.S. air

base at Bien Hoa; four Americans were killed. There was no U.S. reaction.

Later that month Vietcong units initiated their largest offensive of the conflict

and gained control of the province of Binh Dinh on the central coast of South

Vietnam. Again, there was no U.S. reaction. On Christmas eve on 1964 in

downtown Saigon, the Vietcong bombed the Brinks Hotel, which house U.S.

officers; two Americans were killed and thirty-eight were wounded. A...

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