By Luis Arenas Silvia Loera

Brenda DelgadoSandra Delgado

Vietnam War

• This war took place during the 60’s and 70’s. Many people were injured, killed, and had physical difficulties. We were against the We were against the Vietnam war for the following reasonsVietnam war for the following reasons: Suffering, and deaths.

Intro

When was this war?

• This war was during 1965 to 1975.

• It took place about 10 years leaving 58,193 death.

Opinions about the war • This was a civil war and the United States

shouldn't got involve because it was a war between them.

• This war affected a lot of peoples life.

• The economy of the USA went down a lot during the war.

• Some people think that this war was not about communism it was about money.

• Other people think that is was about both things money and communism.

Primary Source

• "I feared the war, yes, but I also feared exile. I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and my family, my whole history, everything that mattered to me."

• Tim O'Brien

• He doesn’t want to live away from his family or his friends because of the war.

Tim O’Brien

• He didn't want to go to the war because he didn't want to live away from his family and he didn’t know why or for what he was fighting .

Martin Luther King

• "The world demands that we admit that we have been wrong from the beginning of our adventure in Vietnam."

• He said that because of segregation, 14% of the army is African American being sent to the Vietnam war. He thought that this was not fair. There were too many Africans Americans sent to war.

Linda Phillips Palo

• "I learned that the pain and loss never goes away. It just changes."

• She always in pain from the war.

• She is saying that they fought for nothing and they come back from the war and were ignored and rejected by their country.

Philip Caputo • "Everything rotted and

corroded there [in Vietnam]: bodies, boot leather, canvas, metal, morals. Scorched by the sun, wracked by the wind and rain of the monsoon, fighting in alien swamps and jungles, our humanity rubbed off of us as the protective bluing rubbed off the barrels of our rifles."

• He is telling that the war was terrible for the US soldiers during the Vietnam war.

Phuong Hoang

• "When we set out on our journey, we had no idea what would happen to us or what country would allow us to land. All we knew was that we had to get out, even at the risk of losing our lives."

• He said that they were afraid of losing their lives.

Barry Romo • “Vietnam was not just a

mistake. Any U.S. venture in another part of the globe will also be a mistake for the GIs who buy the government's lies. Vietnam was not a “noble cause,” except for those who fought to bring our brothers home after they made the mistake of going.”

• Barry is talking about how many people bought the lies that the government were making. He also thinks that the whole Vietnam War was a mistake.

Events

• 1951 - U.S. military aid amounted to more than $500 million by 1951

• 13 May 1961 - President Kennedy orders 100 special forces troops to South .Vietnam

• November 1, 1964 Two days before the U.S. presidential election, Vietcong mortars shell been Hoa Air Base near Saigon.

• All of the information that I have found is on the number of deaths and how much that it had cost to have this war it cost over 150 billion dollars. The charts are showing the number of deaths, there were 58,193 all together. Either these graphs say the different types of death, race, sex, married, single, what country they died in, what service they worked for, and type of casualty. This is like killed in action or died while missing.

Race Number of Records

American Indian 226

Caucasian 50,120

Malayan 252

Mongolian 116

Negro 7,264

Unknown, Not Reported 215

Total 58,193

Type of Casualty Number of Records

Hostile, Killed in Action 38,502

Hostile, Died of Wounds 5,264

Hostile, Died While Missing 3,524

Hostile, Died While Captured 116

Non-Hostile, Died from Other Causes

7,458

Non-Hostile, Died of Illness or Injury

1,978

Non-Hostile, Died While Missing 1,351

Total 58,193

• Martin Luther King was against the war because he didn’t want any of the fellow Americans to get hurt. Saying how the society gone mad. He also didn’t like how America was sending sons, brothers, and husbands to war to fight and die just for our country. Another reason is because they send many young black people that have been crippled by society and all of a sudden want their help and having to watch them on T.V getting killed and fighting for our nation when they couldn’t even seat them together in the same schools.

Give Peace a chance

John Lennon Everybody's talking about

Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Racisms, TagismThis-ism, that-ism Isn't it the mostAll we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance Everybody's talking about Ministers, Sinisters, Banisters and canisters,Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,And bye bye, bye byes. All we are saying is give peace a chanceAll we are saying is give peace a chance

Let me tell you nowEverybody's talking aboutRevolution, Evolution, Mastication, Flagelolation, Regulations.Integrations, Meditations, United Nations, CongratulationsAll we are saying is give peace a chanceAll we are saying is give peace a chanceOh Let's stick to itEverybody's talking aboutJohn and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy smothers, Bob Dylan, Tommy Cooper, Derek Tayor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,Hare KrishnaAll we are saying is give peace a chanceAll we are saying is give peace a chance

What the song means

• This song was powerful because it comforted people during the war. It tells about giving peace a chance to have peace on the world it is telling that fitting is not good for the world and we should be on peace.

Images

• A lot of soldiers were kill during the war and some of them didn’t know what were fitting for.

• A lot of people protest against the war.

Images

• A lot of dead bodies on the war and they couldn’t rest peace full

• This image is describing how people is running away for the explosion trying to save them self. People suffered during the war.

Important people

• William Calley• He killed Vietnamese

• Ho Chi Minh • The primary

Vietnamese nationalist and Communist leader during the twentieth century

Important people

• John F. Kennedy • The 35th U.S. president,

whose decision was to send U.S. “military advisors” into Vietnam.

• Bao Dai • The last emperor of

Vietnam

Vietnam War and Iraq • The Vietnam war happen in 1965• 2.5 million people were killed

over all in both sides. • The Vietnam war was the longest

military conflict in the U.S. history.

• The north Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese were involve the conflict with the United States.

• It started in March 20,2003. • The war happen because the Us

wanted to gain control of Iraq’s huge oil reserves.

• Since the attack of the World Trade Center the Us government try to persuade the American people that Iraq was behind al of these attacks.

• After this campaign they did many people believed that it was Saddam Hussein but later on George Bush admitted that there was no evidence that he did it.

Web Sites

• www.enotes.com

• www.google.com

• www.ask.com

• http://www.vietnampix.com/

• http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index.html

• http://www.landscaper.net/timelin.htm

Work Cited • Stats about Vietnam• Roush, Gary. "Statistics about the Vietnam War." 13 Nov 2007

<http://www.vhfcn.org/stat.html>.• SPEECHS • "American Rhetoric." 13 Nov.2007

<http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm>.

• Boucher, Juliana, Adrienne Clay, Celia Perry, Anna Sale, Marina McCoy. "Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.” 13 Nov. 2007 <http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/biography/index.html>.

• "Video Gallery." 13 Nov 2007 <http://www.history.com/media.do?mediaType=All&searchTerm=martin+luther+king+against+war&action=search&showName=-1&x=16&y=8>.

• PHOTOS• "The Vietnam War." Hippies . 13 Nov. 2007

<http://www.vietnampix.com/links.htm>.• "The Vietnam War." Background. 13 Nov. 2007

<http://www.vietnampix.com/intro2.htm>.

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