The vietnam war mind map

The vietnam war mind map

1. Vietnam tactics

   • Dressed like everyday citizens so that they couldn't be told apart
   • They had complex underground tunnels which couldn't be detected by Americans
     • These tunnels were also filled with lethal traps and bombs
   • Hanging on to America's belts - The viet cong would attack or ambush American's near their own bases so that when they fought back they destoryed thier own stuff and killed their own men
   • They were supplied with weaponds from China and Russia
   • They used the Ho Chi Min trail to supply war weaponds - this ran through Laos and Cambodia so American's couldn't attack it, it was also burried in thick jungle
   • They avoid battle unless the odds were heavily in their favour
   • They used Guerilla tactics

2. USA tactics

   • They used heavily advanced machinery and weaponds
   • Dropped Agent-Orange gas
   • They bomb whole communities and jungle land to clear out the Viet Cong
   • They were prepared to fight a war like WW1 or WW2 instead of a guerilla war
   • Used Napam gas
   • Search and Destory
   • They used their own soilders as bait and then backed them up with air military
   • They lived in stratigic hamelts to draw viet cong into loyal area's
   • Zipoo raids

3. Who was more effective?

   • The American's preapred for the wrong war
   • The viet-cong new the terrain very well
   • American soilder's lost moral very quickly
   • Most American's didn't know anything about vietnam or why they were fighting
   • The Viet-Cong were more effective and won the war

4. Effects of the war on the USA

   • Cost the goverment billions of dollars
   • Longest war America had been in
   • 58,000 American troops died
   • American soilders lost home support and mroal after the news that they were killing innocent people E.G The Mai Lia masacre
   • Lots of anti war protests
   • Kent State shooting
   • Many war hero's werent celebrated and were treated badly
   • Racial tensions because blacks fought alongside whites for their contry but still has less rights

5. Affects of the war on Vietnam

   • Thousands of people were left with the after effects of the Orange Agent gas which included cancer, mutations and terminal illnesses. Many children were also orphaned
   • American's were left in Vietnam
   • Vietnam united
   • The NVA massacred thousands of SVA once America left
   • Farm land was polluted by American chemicals
   • They had no money
   • It's still the poorest country in the world
   • Had to fight a war with Cambodia and China for their independance