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My question was about the Vietnam War. What is your question about?

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Although Google (or maybe Ask Jeeves, if he's still around) could answer a question for you, do you have a question about something that you have never had answered? (or you have never looked for the answer)


I dont know why the Vietnam War started. Can someone tell me (without googling it)?

I asked my mom what was Watergate about and she said she didnt know. I was about 35 years old. I just had never . . . googled it. But I didnt understand why she didnt know about it. I concluded it was because she and my dad were British and they didnt follow it when it happen (if that makes sense)


What's your question about?
 
I could tell you, but I've got to get to bed now. In the meantime you might want to take a look at "Indochine", a really beautiful French flick from a few decades ago with Catherine Deneuve and some impossibly handsome French hunk set in the period during which Vietnam was a part of French Indochina. It won't answer your question directly, but it will set the scene.

I could also fill you in on any number of other wars. Likewise my partner. We're both into military history, so reading about these conflicts and visiting war museums is recreation for us. When we were in Russia not long ago we exhausted our guides with questions about the Swedish, French and German invasions. My partner was hugely disappointed that St. Petersburg doesn't have a museum of the German siege of the city. Our first day in Moscow, after he was exhausted by the Russian Historical Museum in Red Square, I spend another few hours in the 1812 museum next door. The one souvenir I wanted--but didn't buy--was a chess set with pieces representing Napoleon and Alexander and the other major military players.

We visited a Japanese Garden here in California last weekend and ended up walking around discussing the Russo-Japanese War.
 
I have far too many questions running through my mind it would be pretty difficult to name just one.

Great idea for a thread.
 
Thank you Latimer
I apprecate the information about "Indochine" and if I ever see it airing, I will look at it

I know the Vietnam War was controversial but I dont remember if it was because babies were being killed (is that a correct memory of mine?). I know there is a photo of a baby in the air on the end of a bayonet. Were soldiers raping women? Was that part of the controversy or soldiers randomly burning down everything in a village that were innocent. I remember something about ears being cut off and made into a necklace as a' keepsake'. I dont know why Jane Fonda was involved. Was she protesting a war that they felt America shouldnt be in?

Heck, all I had to know from my mom was that the Republicans broke into the Democractic headquarters and that was pretty much it?

Medic,
Ive had this thread idea for 6 months and wondered if it was worth posting.

But before google, we really did have to learn things from one another
 
As far as i can recall it was the US trying to stop the spread of communism, the US backed South Vietnam while the commies (China/USSR) backed the North, maybe it was easier for them to have the small scale conflicts instead of the all out nuclear war the cold war was always threatening.
 
I can tell you all about why the Vietnam war started without you googling it, but I won't.

It is worth a little effort to research this.

I have never had a question unanswered because I always look for the answer. To walk around with unanswered questions just seems a waste of time.
 
But before google, we really did have to learn things from one another



That's right, times have changed for sure :rolleyes:


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I can tell you all about why the Vietnam war started without you googling it, but I won't.

It is worth a little effort to research this.

I have never had a question unanswered because I always look for the answer. To walk around with unanswered questions just seems a waste of time.

Rareboy,
I dont think you understand the purpose of this thread. Its to learn from others, as in the good old days before google was around. Google is not the be all, end all fountain of knowledge. Id rather learn about Vietnam from an encyclopedia
 
I didn't suggest you google it.

Only that it is worth the research to find out more about from real sources of information. Maybe an encyclopedia is a start.

It is far more complex than we could ever do justice to it in a paragraph or two. And you are more likely to get opinion than fact.
 
And I am interacting.

I am suggesting that some questions can be best answered by research.

Because telling someone to go watch a movie or giving a synopsis of why I think the Vietnam war started doesn't really answer the question

Before Google and social media, I didn't run around and ask random people the answer to questions like this. I went to the library. The only person I might have interacted with was the Librarian to help me find the books I should read.

Or going back further, I would have asked the teacher in high school.

But since you asked.

The vietnam war is rooted in the French colonization of Vietnam in 1887. Real conflict begins in 1946 with Ho Chi Minh rejecting limited self-rule following Japanese occupation and then liberation at the end of WWII and starting a guerilla war. In 1947, Truman declares that the US will help any country threatened by communism. In 1950, Russia and the Peoples' Republic of China recognize the Communist Republic of Vietnam and in 1954, the Viet Minh deliver a humiliating defeat to French forces. In 1954, the UN draws the demarcation between North and South Vietnam. The Russian and Chinese supported Ho Chi Minh rules the North, the US backed Ngo Dinh Diem emerges as leader of South Vietnam. The first US soldiers are killed in 1959 in a guerilla raid near Saigon. In 1960, the National Liberation Front, with backing by the North is formed and in 1961, Kennedy starts secret operations against the Viet Cong and uses agent orange to defoliate areas in the south that could harbour the Viet Cong. In 1963, after the leader of South Vietnam orders open fire on Bhuddists, the US backs a military coup against Diem, which ends in the brutal killing of Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. Between 1963 and 1965, 12 different governments lead South Vietnam with one military coup after another. In 1964, the USS Maddox is attacked by the North in the Gulf of Tonkin which leads to bombing raids against the Cong and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which authorizes Johnson to “take all necessary measures, including the use of armed force” against the North Vietnamese or any other aggressor. Russia and China rush to provide support to North Vietnam and in 1965 Johnson begins a three year bombing campaign 'Operation Rolling Thunder.

And that is how the Vietnam War started.
 
I have a question that's never been properly answered since I was a kid. I asked my teacher at school; later I asked my mum at home. Neither of them could give a clear answer. The question is:

After a woman gives birth to a child, her belly will go back to its normal size, but... how long does this take? Is it hours... days... weeks maybe?

If anyone knows the answer, I'm still curious.
 
I have a question that's never been properly answered since I was a kid. I asked my teacher at school; later I asked my mum at home. Neither of them could give a clear answer. The question is:

After a woman gives birth to a child, her belly will go back to its normal size, but... how long does this take? Is it hours... days... weeks maybe?

If anyone knows the answer, I'm still curious.

six to eight weeks.
 
Rareboy,
I decided to look at google and it did have a long explanation explanation at Wikipedia. I dont think google even bothered trying to explain it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

Contents
1 Names
2 Background
3 Transition period
4 Diệm era, 1954–63
4.1 Rule
4.2 Insurgency in the South, 1954–60
4.2.1 North Vietnamese involvement
5 Kennedy's escalation, 1961–63
5.1 Ousting and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm
6 Johnson's escalation, 1963–69
6.1 Gulf of Tonkin incident
6.2 Bombing of Laos
6.3 The 1964 Offensive
6.4 American ground war
6.5 Tet Offensive
7 Nixon Doctrine and Vietnamization, 1969–72
7.1 Nuclear threats and diplomacy
7.2 Hanoi's war strategy
7.3 U.S. domestic controversies
7.4 Collapsing U.S. morale
7.5 ARVN taking the lead and U.S. ground-force withdrawal
7.6 Cambodia
7.7 Laos
7.8 Easter Offensive and Paris Peace Accords, 1972
8 U.S. exit and final campaigns, 1973–75
8.1 Campaign 275
8.2 Final North Vietnamese offensive
8.3 Fall of Saigon
9 Opposition to U.S. involvement, 1964–73
10 Involvement of other countries
10.1 Pro-Hanoi
10.1.1 China
10.1.2 Soviet Union
10.1.3 Czechoslovakia
10.1.4 North Korea
10.1.5 Cuba
10.1.6 Other Eastern Bloc countries
10.2 Pro-Saigon
10.2.1 South Korea
10.2.2 Thailand
10.2.3 Australia and New Zealand
10.2.4 Philippines
10.2.5 Taiwan
10.2.6 Brazil
10.3 Neutral and non-belligerent nations
10.3.1 Canada and the ICC
11 United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO)
12 War crimes
12.1 South Vietnamese, Korean and American
12.2 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
13 Women
13.1 American nurses
13.2 Vietnamese soldiers
13.3 Journalists
14 Black servicemen
15 Weapons
15.1 Radio communications
15.2 Extent of U.S. bombings
16 Aftermath
16.1 Events in Southeast Asia
16.2 Effect on the United States
16.2.1 Views on the war
16.2.2 Cost of the war
16.2.3 Impact on the U.S. military
16.3 Effects of U.S. chemical defoliation
16.4 Casualties
16.5 In popular culture
16.5.1 Myths
16.6 Commemoration
17 See also
17.1 General
18 Annotations
19 Notes
20 References
20.1 Secondary sources
20.2 Primary sources
20.3 Historiography and memory
21 Further reading
22 External links





Wasnt it Kate Middleton who lewt the World know, or at least the men, that a woman doesn not get back into shape. She looks pregnant even after having the baby. Lets see if that photo is out there. Yup. Kind of creepy. She is 'pregnant' but shes holding the baby


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I guess my other question is about the Bay of Pigs. Hopefully, it is less complicated than Vietnam. What is the importance of the Bay of Pigs?


My intention is to not ask a certain line of questions regarding war and history.

Maybe someone will ask "how many lick does it take to get to the middle of a tootise roll pop?" (It was called tootsie roll pop?)
 
I have a question

Please explain exactly how a man bounces his pecs one at a time. Hopefully this will come from someone who can do it. HOW it is done from a physiological? biological standpoint. Thank you
 
I have a question

Please explain exactly how a man bounces his pecs one at a time. Hopefully this will come from someone who can do it. HOW it is done from a physiological? biological standpoint. Thank you

Not everyone can do this just like how not everyone can roll their tongue or wiggle their ears.

I am one of those who can wiggle my ears and bounce my pecks but I can not do them one at a time. Still trying, though.

It is not something that can be told. You just have to keep trying until you can do it.

For me, what really helped me able to bounce my pecks was focusing on my muscle groups while working out. Everyone who is serious about working out knows that mindful work-out is a lot more effective than mindless work-out. Being mindful is when you work-out you focus in the muscles you are using. With enough practice, you can actually feel each muscle working. Hence, people who are serious about working out are a lot more co-ordinated than those who don't.
 
Rareboy's explanation sounds about as good as you'll get in a few paragraphs. I have a vague idea that the French had colonized Vietnam and there was a resurrection and they were being beat pretty badly and left, leaving a vacuum. The United States stepped in to stop the spread of communism.
 
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