Vietnam+war+napalm+bombing

=__The Vietnam War and Napalm Bombing__= In 1945 America involved themselves in a Vietnam War to aid the French. They supported the French and only the French over the Vietnamese independence because of the impact of Communism. This is why they did not help the Vietnamese. They would rather have someone take land through a war, than have Communism spread throughout the area of that land. The President at that time, this being President Eisenhower, had the idea and theory of the Domino Effect. If Vietnam fell to Communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would follow. President Eisenhower later said, "You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly...… Asia, after all, has already lost some 450 million of its peoples to Communist dictatorship, and we simply can't afford greater losses." Is this having confidence or being over confident? Either way you put it, it worked for a while until the eventful loss of the war to Vietnam. Due to the fact of Guerrilla Warfare, and later to get rid of Guerrilla Warfare Search and Destroy Mission. Later, in 1956 the Geneva Accords came into play with the splitting of Vietnam along the 17th parallel. This now making the North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the North being ruled by a Communist leader named Ho Chi Minh, and the South being led by Ngo Dinh Diem a nationalist leader. Diem was very educated but was very anti-communist. Diem was a Catholic, who had many Vietnamese migrate South to be able to practice their religion. After gaining this type of popularity he was elected as a Republican President of South Vietnam. Elections were not held again because Diem was afraid of Ho Chi Minh would win. After these actions the U.S. supported them and started to increase their aid with South Vietnam. After President Eisenhower pasted Kennedy stepped into office in 1961. He continued the supports with South Vietnam and was also very against the ideas of Communism. With War of the verge Diem had to start protected his people with "strategic hamlets." This being trenches, gunners, bunkers, and etc. Even as these good ideas came Diem started to become very unpopular due to discrimination on religion, which led to an over throw. After Diems death Kennedy also pasted through an assassination, which also lead Vietnam very weak. After both countries suffered great losses (Vietnam and U.S.) they had to regain what they had lost. Now Johnson stepped into office, he started to send troops over to help regain Vietnam, and help them get back on to their feet. During this time the Gulf of Tonkin was under attack, with torpedo boats firing at two American destroyers. This sending messages to both sides of we are here and willing to stand our ground. President Johnson had thought of way to keep them off of South Vietnam land, this idea was air strikes. As attacks started to increase and become very deadly Johnson had to use this as way to stop the Vietcong. After a major attack within 14 hours they bombed the area with an air strike. A poll was shown to show how much effect it had with how much control was followed from the bombing. It started at 41 percent and jumped to 60 percent on how well it was working. "America seemed omnipotent" said by Philip Caputo. They had much confidence walking into Vietnam in 1965 with 180,000 troops, and within one year this number was double. With so many troops the Vietcong had to play dirty since their lack of aircrafts and firepower. They used ambushes, booby traps, raids, and sabotage. This was very effective against U.S. troops. This soon led to Search and Destroy missions. The meaning of these mission was not only to destroy the enemy but to destroy position, supply line, and to force them into open field combat. Through these bombings the Vietcong started to think of better ways to hide whether it be digging deeper or going into thick jungle. This is when the napalm bombing became became crucial. These napalm bombs were meant to dig deeper and to cut through the thickest. They consisted of a jellied gasoline that exploded on contact. Forcing the Vietcong further back pushed them to the border of both countries. They soon started to bomb the borders with South Vietnamese still living their many innocent were hit by the bombings. Many of the South Vietnamese had died and some had proved that the targets that they were looking for were not even in the area. Then which soon stopped some of the bombings, and also because of Chinas verge to join the war.media type="youtube" key="4KIvAXPEcaE" height="390" width="480" align="right"