Vietnam War- ow it started and how is the situation between states today

1. Researched and arranged By:
AdebayoTayo & Samin VossoughiRad
Course: Peace& War
Professor Giorgi Pataridze

2. Events that led to the
VietnamWar
The Collapse of Europe
Bipolar Power
Soviet Expansion
United states foreign policy
ColdWar

3. Vietnam War
How,Why andWhen theVietnamWar Started?

4. Who: North and SouthVietnam
What: A war fought to keep communist
NorthVietnam from gaining control
over anti-communist SouthVietnam
and to stop the spread of communism
When: December 1956 - April 1975
Where:Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
Why:The USA was trying to stop the spread of communism

5. The highlighted countries are all involved in the Vietnam
war
NorthVietnam
Viet Cong
Khmer Rouge
Pathet Pao
Anti-communist forces
SouthVietnam
United States
South Korea
Thailand
Australia
New Zealand
Khmer Republic
Kingdom of Laos
Communist forces

6. Factors that caused theVietnamWar
and
its escalation

7. ESCALATION
From Light Heavy
Few Many
Intergroup conflict

8. Factors that caused theVietnamWar and its escalation
• The Vietnam War was derived from
the symptoms, components and
consequences of the Cold War.
During the war, the country had been overrun by the
Japanese
The French had got themselves
into a difficult military position

9. South Vietnam Under Diem
• Diem claimed that his newly created government was
under attack from Communists in the north.
• In late 1957, withAmerican military aid, Diem began to
counter-attack.

10. The National Liberation Front
The Communists supported
the creation of a broad-
based united front to help
mobilize southerners in
opposition to the
government in South
Vietnam.

11. Negotiation:The Paris Peace Agreement
• In early January 1973, Nixon
convinced that they would not
abandon the SouthVietnamese
army if they signed the peace
accord.
• The Paris Peace Agreement did
not end the conflict inVietnam

13. Longest and Most UnpopularWar
58,000 Americans lost their lives
• The oldest man killed was 62 years old;
the youngest, 16.
• 61% of the men killed were 21 or
younger.
304,000 were wounded
75,000 were severely disabled
The United States spent over $200
billion dollars on the war.

14. Lost on all sides
• SouthVietnam
195,000–430,000 civilian dead
220,357–313,000 military dead
1,170,000 wounded
•
United States
58,307 dead; 303,644 wounded
•
South Korea
5,099 dead; 10,962 wounded; 4 missing
Australia
500 dead; 3,129 wounded
New Zealand
37 dead; 187 wounded
Thailand
351 dead; 1,358 wounded
[
Philippines
9 dead; 64 wounded
• Total dead: 479,660–807,303
Total wounded: ≈1,490,000+
North Vietnam & Viet Cong
65,000[ civilian dead
444,000[1–1,100,000 military dead or
missing[
600,000+ wounded[
China
≈1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded[
Soviet Union
16 dead[3
North Korea
14 dead[
Total dead: 455,476–1,170,476
Total wounded: ≈608,200

15. WHY DID UNITED STATE LOSE THE VIET
WAR?
The NorthVietnamese conducted a
“Peoples war” in which everyone
played a part.
The ambiguity of relative power also
caused the miscalculation.

16. Recent development : where are they today?
Secretary-general of the
Vietnam Communist Party
(VCP), Nguyen PhuTrong

17. VietnamToday

18. THE END