Conflict Information Report: By Teagan

VIETNAM WAR

Did you know that North Vietnam was so strict and didn’t like people to be relaxed and laid back. While South Vietnam was exactly the opposite and listened to music, smoked cigars and wore jeans . Thats how war started, war is legalised  violence between two or more countries.

North Vietnam was communist (strict) and didn’t like the way South Vietnam was acting. South Vietnam were smoking cigars, listening to music and wearing jeans. While North Vietnam was different they didn’t listen to music and dressed very formal. In happened in 1957 and ended in 1975. There were two sides fighting they were called the Coalition Forces and the Allied Troop.

There were a lot a weapons used in this war.  They used heaps of rifles and used airplanes as weapons too. They used boats and tanks to kill and destroy. There was a new deadly gas called napalm gas which burnt your skin. There were over  four hundred  thousand people died in the war, more people died in the war than there is people in Samoa and Tonga.

America took away their army from the war because they were anti war. Now South Vietnam had little support. North Vietnam were getting more weapons from Russia. North Vietnam were getting stronger and South Vietnam were getting weaker. So South Vietnam had no choice but to surrender.

To show that North Vietnam was boss they changed the capital city of South Vietnam from Saigon to Ho Chi Min City. Vietnam was now a communist country and lived by very strict rules. A lot of people had no house and lived in poverty. Men in families were separated and had to go fight. A lot of children in Vietnam have two cultures (Vietnam and American) and didn’t get treated the same.

Did you know the youngest soldier killed was 16 years old and the oldest man killed was 62 years old, thats old he must have had strong bones for a old person.