Vietnam War
The Vietnam War began as the guerilla fighters of North Vietnam (the Vietcong) attempted to take over the government of South Vietnam. This effort by the Vietcong eventually turned into a full length war. North Vietnam wanted to take over South Vietnams government in order to make South Vietnam a communist country. The United States and many other countries supported South Vietnam with weapons and troops. The USSR and the Republic of China supplied weapons and ammunition to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. While the United States was more powerful than North Vietnam, North Vietnams strategies and resolve were more effective and eventually allowed them to win the war. During the first year of the war, Communist sympathizers who moved to North Vietnam returned to South Vietnam in large quantities. ... bases set up in South Vietnam. During the first week in August of 1964, there were reports of North Vietnamese ships torpedoing two American war ships. ... action through the bombing of North Vietnam. ... was in Vietnam was basically to stop the spread of communism. This war appeared to other countries as inconsequential because Vietnam did not have any natural goods or resources to offer and its location was not of strategic importance. ... strategies was to carpet bomb North Vietnam. America would have around fifteen B-52 air- planes on different cycles flying into North Vietnam to bomb major cities and villages.