History homework - Vietnam War?

Minnie My

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OK, for my GCSE coursework, we have an entire topic on Vietnam, only we haven't started yet and I know nothing about it.
So, for homework, we have to write 2 detailed reasons why America lost. Can anyone please help or give some links which might help?
Thanks.
 
First reason they lost support at home - when the American People saw the images of coffins coming home they wondered whether it was all worthwhile. Activists like Jane Fonda also mobilised support for the anti-vietnam war movement.

Second reason - US completely underestimated the Viet Cong - these were resourceful people fighting on their own territory - employing almost mediueval yet effect figthing methods. They wanted to follow Ho Chi Minh and had had enough of foreign colonialists.
 
First reason they lost support at home - when the American People saw the images of coffins coming home they wondered whether it was all worthwhile. Activists like Jane Fonda also mobilised support for the anti-vietnam war movement.

Second reason - US completely underestimated the Viet Cong - these were resourceful people fighting on their own territory - employing almost mediueval yet effect figthing methods. They wanted to follow Ho Chi Minh and had had enough of foreign colonialists.
 
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