An Analysis of the Vietnam War, focusing mainly on the American Perception of the war.

Vietnam The Vietnam war started long before the 1960's and 70's involvement of the United States and Communist China. The story of Vietnam dates back to the early 20th Century and this is how most Vietnamese view Vietnam in the 20th Century. For Americans however, Vietnam is a cold period in the 1960's and 70's in which the nation was more occupied with threat of the Communist giant than with the well being of it's …

…Charlie". Such films do not portray the reality of the American colonial greed that ravaged a country, killed many, and then placed an economic sanction against the starving people. American soldiers are never portrayed as the "bad guys", but in reality (most often, without them knowing) they were. We have learned today that those "Hippies" that protested the war and that were not given much credit, were in actuality the ones with the most sense.