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This 4 page paper asks the question: How could the Vietnam Conflict have been settled peacefully? The writer is to give advice to the president. The essay begins with some background facts regarding the conflicts in Vietnam and then asks to whom should the resolution be 'peaceful'? Recounting the nations involved and former peace accords, the writer then argues there was no resolution that would have been peaceful for everyone. One alternative is provided that could have followed the Conference in Paris in 1973. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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peacefully? The Vietnam Conflict officially began in 1954 and officially ended in 1975 (Werner, 1985). However, the first American was killed in 1946 (Werner, 1985). Colonel A.O. Dewey was a
casualty during the struggle between Viet Minh and the Allied reoccupation forces (Werner, 1985). He was in the southern part of Vietnam on an OSS mission and was killed in
a guerilla ambush (Werner, 1985). The French had already been involved in a conflict in the region for eight years, since 1946 (Attarian, 2000). Ho Chi Minhs Vietnamese communists finally
defeated the French colonial regime in 1954 (Attarian, 2000). The peace settlement at that time divided Vietnam into two countries, North and South (Attarian, 2000). Following this accord, "South Vietnamese
communists, or Vietcong (VC), began a guerrilla insurgency" (Attarian, 2000, p. 288). America responded to the request for aid and assistance, which was provided, but in 1964, North Vietnamese patrol
boats attacked the destroyer U.S.S. Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin (Attarian, 2000; The Readers Companion to American History, p. 477). Given these background facts, the question that must be
asked - Peaceful resolution for whom? Peaceful for the United States, for China, for the U.S.S.R., for North Vietnam, for South Vietnam? Or, in more general terms, how could the
violence been ended in Vietnam? To speculate on how the violence could have ended or to answer any of the foregoing questions in a short essay is impossible. The
reasons for the Conflict are multiple and extremely complex. The reasons each nation was there are also multiple and complex. The reasons go back decades before the Conflict erupted into
a grand-scale war. The reasons have to do with ideological principles, human rights, deterring the spread of communism and more. There is one major reason the U.S. lost in
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