The Vietnam War took place from 1965-1975 and resulted in over 58,000 American deaths. Several key figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Tim O'Brien spoke out against the war due to the suffering of soldiers and civilians. John Lennon's song "Give Peace a Chance" called for an end to the fighting. Images from the war showed dead bodies and people fleeing explosions, highlighting the human cost of the conflict.

1. By Luis Arenas Silvia Loera Brenda Delgado Sandra Delgado Vietnam War

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

3. When was this war? This war was during 1965 to 1975. It took place about 10 years leaving 58,193 death.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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 .

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 58,193 Total 215 Unknown, Not Reported 7,264 Negro 116 Mongolian 252 Malayan 50,120 Caucasian 226 American Indian Number of Records Race

15. 58,193 Total 1,351 Non-Hostile, Died While Missing 1,978 Non-Hostile, Died of Illness or Injury 7,458 Non-Hostile, Died from Other Causes 116 Hostile, Died While Captured 3,524 Hostile, Died While Missing 5,264 Hostile, Died of Wounds 38,502 Hostile, Killed in Action Number of Records Type of Casualty

16. 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.

17. Give Peace a chance John Lennon Everybody's talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Racisms, Tagism This-ism, that-ism Isn't it the most All 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 chance All we are saying is give peace a chance Let me tell you now Everybody's talking about Revolution, Evolution, Mastication, Flagelolation, Regulations. Integrations, Meditations, United Nations, Congratulations All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance Oh Let's stick to it Everybody's talking about John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy smothers, Bob Dylan, Tommy Cooper, Derek Tayor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. Important people William Calley He killed Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh The primary Vietnamese nationalist and Communist leader during the twentieth century

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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

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