African Americans in the Vietnam War- FJH 2022 (part 1)
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- Japanese troops invade French Indochina
- The Soviet Union explodes atom bomb in Kazakhstan
- The United States Supports South Vietnam
- The Japanese military entered Vietnam in September 1940 and remained there until the end of World War II (August 1945). French colonial administrators remained in charge for most of this period, until the Japanese assumed control in 1945. This Is when Vietnam started to lose control and weaken their military.
- United States Drafts
- On September 3, a U.S. spy plane flying off the coast of Siberia picked up the first evidence of radioactivity from the explosion. Later that month, President Harry S. Truman announced to the American people that the Soviets too had the bomb. Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist who had helped the United States build its first atomic bombs, was arrested for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets.”
- Discrimination in Vietnam and in the United States
- The US sends troops over to South Vietnam to help fight North Vietnam communist threat.
- Black Sergeant's
- The males were called to fight, anyone from 18-year-old and older were eligible to fight. However, the US had drafts to ensure participation to fight and they would go to different neighborhoods to find different people. They did discriminate against age, race, gender, finances and more.
- “...Vietnam was an example of “a ‘race war’ in which the white U.S. Establishment is using colored mercenaries to murder brown-skinned freedom fighters…We are fighting over here against the Viet Cong and at home against discrimination,” said Capt. Clifford Alexander Jr., to TIME; “together we can win in both places.”
- However, on the field when black people excelled and were made sergeants, they gained respect. They were able to get along with the soldiers of any race and complete tasks.
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