Vietnam war
the Vietnam war was was a very complicated war because the us was sent in to Vietnam to exterminate communism. but this is a little trickier to tell when someone is communist or not, as for example in Germany it was very easy to know when someones Jewish to there face and there documents. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed each day. though this might sound very brutal of the us they meant well . Two things that were most commonly used was the agent orange, and the napalm.
Agent Orange-Agent Orange was a powerful mixture of chemical defoliants used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, as well as crops that might be used to feed them. The U.S. program of defoliation, code named Operation Ranch Hand, sprayed more than 19 million gallons of herbicides over 4.5 million acres of land in Vietnam from 1961 to 1972. Agent Orange, which contained the chemical dioxin, was the most commonly used of the herbicide mixtures, and the most effective. It was later revealed to cause serious health issues–including tumors, birth defects, rashes, psychological symptoms and cancer–among returning U.S. servicemen and their families as well as among the Vietnamese population. Napalm-a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps. |
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