The paper must be a minimum of 1500 words for the paper and include a work cited page in Chicago style formatted. The sources withing the paper must be sourced using footnotes. Also it must be 3 secondary sources and one primary source. For my rough drafor my primary sources I used the martin luther king speech. Attached below is a very brief rough draft of the paper and you dont have to use the information its just there for your use:
Why
The United States Should Not Have Entered the Vietnam War
Intro:
Think
about having to live in a place where you either have the option of staying
where you currently live and risk being bombed or having to uproot your whole
life and move to somewhere else in order to survive. Then if you do choose to
stay and risk the bombings because you had no option then, you do not know who
you can trust neighbors, and even your closest friends could turn on you and
possibly poison your water or burn down your crops, making a living there and
surviving even harder. From 1955 to 1975, this is precisely how the people of
Vietnam felt during the Vietnam War. When all of this was happening, the United
States felt the need to enter the war in order to try and prevent the spread of
communism; however, when it came down the preventing the spread of communism
vs. all the other things that it cost our country many people would argue that
the United States did not come out as a victor in the Vietnam war. Instead, they
wasted resources, soldiers, money, and much more, all at the cost of stopping
something that could possibly happen. Not only that, but by being in the
Vietnam war, it caused so many problems and controversy in the United States
itself.
The
United States really had no business being in the Vietnam war. As stated above,
The United States entered it to stop the spread of communism and also to help
South Vietnam. The war started to due to North and South Vietnam trying to
prevent a dictator, Ngo Dinh, from taking over their country. One of the
problems was that most of the Vietnamese rebels trying to help the dictator
take over were not even in favor of communism, so the fear that the United
States had about communism spreading really did not check out thoroughly. After
all, I do not believe that if a dictators followers all dont have the same
ideals as the dictator, then I do not see the dictator having those ideologies
as his main ones, or else he would have no supporters because they are not unified.
Work
Cited
Primary Source
King, Martin L. Beyond Vietnam: A
Time to Break Silence. Speech, Riverside Church in NYC, April 4, 1967.
Secondary Sources
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Students in Their College Journey. Last modified July 23, 2018. https://www.theclassroom.com/negative-positive-consequences-korean-war-8409158.html.
McNamara, Robert. Why Did the US Enter the
Vietnam War? ThoughtCo. Last modified August 22, 2008. https://www.thoughtco.com/why-did-us-enter-vietnam-war-195158#:~:text=Why%20Did%20the%20US%20Enter%20the%20Vietnam%20War%3F,7%20American%20Pride.%20
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U.S. Have Stayed Out of World War I? The Institute of World Politics.
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