50 Insane Facts About Vietnam War You Didn't Know
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- East vs West, Democracy vs Communism, USA vs the Soviet Union- unfortunately for the residents of Vietnam they would become the casualties of a struggle far greater than themselves as two superpowers jockeyed for global domination, with their nation as one of countless proxy battlefields. How much do you really know about the Vietnam War though? Hello and welcome to another episode of The Infographics Show- today we're taking a look at 50 incredible facts about the Vietnam War.
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Which war movie/series were you most deeply moved by? What resonated in you after watching it?
FURY.
Bee movie
Dude, korean war
Tropic thunder
But I had two friends that were in the Vietnam War they were veterans.
Avengers: We have the Hulk
Vietnam:We have trees
😁😁
And 1000000 buffalo, 1000000000 bamboo tree and 1000000000000 grain of rice
Godzilla you forget about
mighty matt king kong :))
Trees: omae wa mou SHINDERU
American soldier:
Fact #51: It took 50,000 bullets to kill one soldier in Vietnam.
Fact #52: The Vietnamese don't call it the Vietnamese War. The call it the American War.
@Thanos Car 2 millions casualties but still won the war.
@Thanos Car 2 millions including old men, women, children and all the civilians.
Ours or theirs?
Chi Ng no military counts any of those people as kills and its interesting how no one talks about how the Vietcong would use fear tactics on villages like setting all the villagers children on fire or how they would fire at American troops from a group of innocent civilians so they would turn around and fire at the group assuming their hostiles
The nva and vietcong taking most casualties from airs trike and bombardment, the usa lost most of their men in battlefield because of jungle warfare. And both sides also committed many war crimes/massacres to civilians as well.
Vietnam:let me tell you a joke
The USA:what ?
Vietnam: South vietnam
The USA:I don't get it!
Vietnam:YEAH
Hahahahahaha... Nice One
what does that mean? the US's goal was to make south vietnam independent.. not invade it. this joke is baseless.
@@teardataco8913 they still needed to take Vietnam to allow it to be independent
@@teardataco8913 if independent was their goal I say bombing is not a very good way to establish it
@@teardataco8913 the fact that they let the feudatory system, a system that enslave people to their landlord, a system that value men much more than woman, a system where the rich control everything from education to the laws and then disguise it as democracy sure independent
I was drafted in 1965, went to Vietnam in 1966 , 20 years old didn't know anything but after being in a holding Company for 3 weeks recovered this was a war for the rich to get richer, and after being discharged other things come to light proving it, Ive been every year the last 5 years it's been the best thing I've ever done, 😍😍
Thank you for choosing our country
Your story sounds so fake.
I was lucky, I graduated in '78, 5 years after ground troops left and the draft ended. From the time I entered kindergarten till about March of '73 (the year I was in 8th grade) I was sure I would be drafted and sent like my older cousins were. It was also one of the reasons I did not join the service after HS, that and the stories I would hear from other people who joined in the mid 70's and returned home early. They all told the same story, they were promised a lot of things but once they were in the military it became clear that the military was going to do what they wanted
@@mankachu100 how is that for the US? Vietnam didn't nothing to the US. More like he choose to do genocide
USA: We have professional soldiers and high advanced vehicles
Vietnam: *Hold My Trees*
O R I G I N A L I T Y
2 million Vietnamese die
58,000 Americans die
vIEtNaM wOn
AdvanceD
@@thanhdaing2708 oops
@@norcal9168 Since when victory is about kills?
I'm Vietnamese, and, yeah, our bush is friendly
Draven Noxan D. Not all i believe
Thiệt ko?
Cái bụi nhà t hiền lắm nó ko bắn m chết đâu :)))
Thiệt không?
Chỉ là mấy cái bụi cây biết nói thôi mà
Fact 51: The Vietnam War had made the US end mandatory military service.
Fact 52: The first B-52, one of the US' most powerful strategic bombers, was being shot down by the North Vietnamese.
Fact 53: Vietnam War has the highest numbers of B-52 shot down/heavy damaged (15_U.S report | 34_North Vietnam report).
Fact 54: Paris Treaty 1973 ended the US & allies' involvement in Vietnam, which was unprofitable for South Vietnam.
Fact 55: Despite the treaty being signed, both sides accused each other of violating the treaty. Without the supplies from the West, S.Vietnam soon fell one by one; which led the North the opportunities to fully engage and retrieved all the southern territories, successfully unifying the nation under their ideology.
Fact 56: Technically the US had won the battle like real big but they didn't win the people's hearts. That might be a big disadvantage for them (the story which would happen in Afghanistan)
Fact 57: Some people think this was a civil war, but it's not. Since the Vietnam War had directed involvement from: US and some others pro-US (from aids to men) -> S.Vietnam; USSR, China, and some others pro-communist (aids, military advisors, diplomatic support) -> N.Vietnam
Fact 58: N.Vietnam had never allowed any foreign soldier of any country to fight in direct combat during the war (only advisors). But the fact that some North Korean pilots were sided with the Vietnamese pilots fighting the war in the 60s
Dang 5 facts more useful than the entire video
Fact 56: farmers would often collect the steel from the downed B52 to make pots and pans
@@legitabdullah846 true
@@chickenpuddingstudio4730 damg
@@chickenpuddingstudio4730 Fact 57: North Vietnamese negotiator Mr. Le Duc Tho wore a ring made from the scrap metal of a B52 bomber that was shot down in Hanoi's Capital and it appeared when Mr.Le Duc Tho making negotiations with Mr.Kissinger
51st fact: VIETNAMESE DONT FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM, CAPITALISM OR ANY POLITICAL IDEOLOGY BUT WE FIGHT FOR OUR PEOPLE, OUR COUNTRY. OUR TRUE IDEOLOGIES ARE PATRIOTISM, NATIONALISM.
Russia old allies: Winter
Vietnam old allies: Trees
Thank you mother nature
True
America’s old friend: B2 Spirit thank you technology
Smoke tree bro
Greece old allies: Mountain passes beside or not beside seas(conditional)
Japan in 13th century
Typhoon
everyone gangsta until the trees learn Vietnamese
*until the sky learns fortunate son
everyone gangsta till the ground starts growing spikes
everyone gangsta until napalm exists
americans gangsta until the trees learn Vietnamese
russian gangsta until the snow learn finnish
french gangsta until the belgian border learn german
Maybe I’m dumb but still don’t get the joke😂😂
You can't win American War.
Nguyen : "hold my rice."
Captain America: I will not use nuclear bombs or bomb the north anymore.
Captain Vietnam: Yesss... America is taking it easy on me.
Fun fact: I have rice
@@theephraimite you can't drop bombs because y'all are scared of soviet's power. if you drop bombs russia was ready at that time to strike back lol 😂🇷🇺
@@theobvu, but America did, and Russia did nothing. So keep dreaming.
@@theephraimite no america didn't use any nuclear bomb what are you talking about lol if ur talking about the bomb on japan the russians/soviet was on allied side with usa when that happened already idiot. that's the only time americans use atomic/nuclear bomb 😂
To quote the"Never get involved in a land war in Asia."
Asian don’t play nice
We play to win
They won against the Japanese though.
@@GlitchedBlox amazing what a couple nukes will do...should have been used in Nam...
Vietnam has the people,full of courage and love for their country.
communism bad
@@not_so_anonymous7413 True
There is no bad party only bad people. Remember it!
@@not_so_anonymous7413Communism is not bad at all, that base on the people in that country , look at China now.
Communism is bad, you guys have a dictator and he can do whatever he wants. That was a loss for both countries.
A lot of Australian and New Zealand veteran children suffering effects of Agent Orange like myself, but NOTHING compared to what the Vietnamese are still being born with to this day.
Absolutely! The us f..... those people over all for not any communism. Lol. Total travesty.
I've always thought scientists - and architects - should have to live with their creations for at least a year before they are released for use.
Yes, this is correct.
@Toby Peters Sad that few understand your joke...
But I did, all that matter :)))
@@hongkyang7107 u aint the only person in the world who has read Harry Potter
The Vietnam war was old rich men talking, and young brave soldiers being taken advantage of.
Glad to see someone said it. A money grab for real life chess loving psychopaths that see our lives as nothing more than exploitable tools for their agendas.
Still like that tbh. Uncle fought in operation iraqi freedom believing he was helping people but now resents it bc he knows he was used and exploited.
That's how war has always been.
@@alligatorwithwifi6111 me too.
And mostly poor young brave soldiers
51. After the Vietnam War, it was the US that agreed China to invade Vietnam in 1979.
52. After the Vietnam War, it was the US that issued a total ban against Vietnam in hoping to collapse the Vietnamese government, and turned the country to stone age.
53. Both Russia and the US now want to lease land in Cam Ranh, Vietnam, to put up their base, but the Vietnamese government refuse both of them.
54. To gain friendly term with Vietnam, the US government not only give free old patrol and combat boats to Vietnam, it also encourage Vietnamese government to buy its weapons. The Vietnamese government has not order a single item yet.
55. Now the US government is willing to do anything to gain the alliance with Vietnam.
THOSE ARE BIG FACTS, JACK!!!
*_"they're in the trees!"_*
Flashback 101
Snapmare stfu
Predator?
@@ohmanthatguy2443 no
Medal of honor
So french military continued the traditon of losing after WW2
haha bro nice meme dude
oh as i hear, they still keep routing, hiding and losing.
STALIN!!!!
Well they did not fight in the gulf war in 1990-1991
France was controlling indochina region even before ww2 but they did not have that military power to control the whole region. In addition, ww2 was the turning point for the northern vietnamese as the germans invaded france.
My mom is Vietnamese, she told me when she was a child, an American solider gave her some candies.
YEA THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS DID HAVE HEARTS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN My grandpa possibly did it because he was a grunt/Infantryman
Vietnamese people dont call "Vietnam war".
It is "The war against the US to save our country"
@The last Outcast Nonsense
@The last Outcast do you know why Vietnamese called it "The war against the US"? Because North Vietnam is useless in the war, they just like fresh shield for the US troops
@@cilen7950yet US ran out of the country.
When you were trying to fight against Colonialism to gain independence but had to fight the U.S for it. The most ironic war ever
You're absolutely right. I never thought of it like that.
@@dopedoge3603 Vietnam has always been one nation, what do you mean by invading? Invading the puppet state that the US backed? And if you didn't know, the US installed that regime to block the national election that was supposed to happen, fearing that HCM would rise to power.
@@dopedoge3603 Did they invade the south? Vietnam is a country that is not divided into two parts, south and north. Who divided it? It was the puppet government that the US suported to divide the country and invade the South to fight for power and benefits since 1955, rather. A French supporter insists on holding half of the country? And then call the north to bring the reclaimers back as an invasion. It is like you go into someone else's garden and steal fruits, then when you are caught and reclaimed, you call the owner of the garden to be strikers. Then call even more comrades, Gypsy to destroy the garden of the garden owner.
" DEMOCRACY "
@@dopedoge3603 pleassseee, what after American lose? Is communism spread and make something wrong? Man, Vietnam will alway be one nation, all we want is reunite, we are dont care anything else.
These are not insane facts, its just basic info.
Tvs1 look at you, cool guy
@@kamiljasinski7239 what do you mean ?
Yes,the insane FACT is the win in Bạch Đằng by Ngô Quyền leads was a basically a troll
He put the hidden spikes while the tides are on and when the enemies came (by boats),the tides went off and we attacked sideways when they’re stuck in the spikes. HE DIDN’T EVEN CONTROLS THE TIDES IT’S *INSANE*
he’s a smart guy.
@@kamiljasinski7239 you play Fortnite I can easily tell you wouldn't find these to be basic
Thats what makes it legit.
Appreciate this, I'm currently attempting to write a psychological horror book about a squad in Vietnam, this is incredibly helpful to help me make progress in it. Thanks for the info!
Cant wait to see your book
Same
You should watch Apocalypse Now from director Francis Ford Coppola. You will definitely get some inspiration from that movie.
@@Indohispano I’ll make sure to check it out! :)
yeah, i'll wanna check that book out when released
Me as a Vietnamese talking to my friends: Quick! Guys pretend to be shocked!
#1 lieutenant Dan ain't got no legs
Chiiill 🤣😂😂😂
Spongebob SquarePants no #1 *at least our parents survived*
promoted dirty dan
Forrest gump mad good tho, same with bo1
He still married a Charlie in the end of the movie
When i'm watching this video, my christmas tree screams "dit con me may" and i hear AK-47 sounds :((((
Need more likes. Haha
Only true Vietnamese will understand :v
lol
@@jackjack7409 do you understand?
Xàm vcl ,
Cứ nhai cức của người khác rồi tưởng thế là hay
Americans be like: "we didn't lose the Vietnam War, we just retreated"
Also mericans: "We didnt retreat, we were merely advancing in a different direction" 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If your not an American then why are you watching this video
The fact that they retreated was the reason you are communist today
@@rrsharizam Is there anything wrong with communism? or ur brainwashed by what Americans call democracy?
Another fact: Among 1 million people from North to South, there were many SPIES. Some of them worked for the Saigon government. The war of American lost when it was started.
That's false imformation
@@Brad-ey6cz it's the trurth, the south after being robed and their's loves one got beaten/killed by the Acmericans because of overprive taxes that US Forced on them but they are too poor to pay .They hated the US guts and many went to join force with the North.that why the VC force grow so fast.Some stayed as a spy.
Tho saying US lost when it started is a bit over the board
My first wife was Vietnamese and she was a spy for the south. She was effected mentally and died this past year. I hope she now has the peace she never found in her life.
The US:"Let's prevent the collapse of the Laotian government"
Also the US *Dropped 2 million tons of bombs on Laos*
We had to stop the viet cong spy sum ting wong from giving U.S secrets to the Russians.
@@gabrielherman3004 There will be no secrets leak if there is noone left to leak
Look it as a tactical move, it isn't that unrealistic. Actually, it's very effective.
A perfect example of Terrorism. Nothing to be proud of unless you are the Devil.
Also happen to Cambodia..
"The French lost and wanted the US to drop nukes on north Vietnam"?!?!! is that correct??
yes to save the french
Yeah. They wanted to just nuke Nam lol
To save their so called dignity
Yeah because the farmers were too strong for them
They are all European countries ruled by Europeans
My grandpa was in there for 3 years and I still live with him to this day
My father was an M60 helicopter door gunner trained in Hawaii who preferred bungee cords to axle-mounted ordnance. He saw 2500 hours in the air, doing a job for which the BBC estimated the life expectancy was _one minute._ He extended his tour in country twice ("I got addicted to the risk." -- his words), serving a total of 20 months {1965-67] and is still alive today.
It was a pointless loss of lives, President Johnson's downfall.
I'm from Vietnam... These facts aren't that insane
thậm chí còn thiếu nữa
Truth !
most of them aren't even interesting or news to anyone
Chep Nguyen no they are not. They are simply facts.
Bạn nào làm sub tiếng Việt mà tên Bác cũng k ghi hẳn hoi ra được mà phải ghi HCM
World: Nobody can defeat the US army
Vietnamese rice farmers: *HOLD MY BEER*
JTI [FRL] no hold my rice
@@mrmeowcat6242 yea
Nah , hold my trees
Tbh the US did lose fair and square but the soldiers were held to strict regulations so it was kinda hard for the US to win
Sure maybe another 2 mill bombs and a few mill more kids death would had done it. They got spanked by farmers. Fact
just read a horrible news from google about 1968 Vietnam war, there were 504 unarmed women and kids murdered by the US army soldiers. I was so so angry that why !!!!???
Because wherever there are psychopaths, what do you think when these people get to hold guns.
More such 50 facts about other historical events and wars please!! 🙏 💗💗💗
I'm Vietnamese and my dad told me when he was studying the teacher would tell everyone when bombs are dropping so that they can jump into a tunnel
Cooool! I like how you can still go into those tunnels today! CU CHI TUNNELS!!!
Trump Trump Trump
wow
@@mightymatt7475 lol i can hear the sound of your cmt
I can confirm this, my grandma used to be a teacher during the Vietnam war in Vietnam and she said all the classes are set at midnight and each student bring their own camping lights to study and turn the lights off whenever they hear a bomber fly by, if the sirens are heard they will move to shelter immediately
Those poor soldiers.
Nothing could prepare them for what they experienced.
That incessant use of Fortunate Son
I like your pic... The 10nth doctor with a fez wow.
Ye you got that from family guy =)
I like that song tho lol
mccabber24 family guy
Stop Children what's that sound
We need a 50 facts of desert storm. Your' videos are awsome
Although the smallest draftable height of a soldier was 5 foot four as I understood, one of my friends who was only 5 foot two was specially drafted just so he could be a Tunnelrat. He died in action.
If the Vietnam War was a group project:
USA - Does all the work but its still not enough
South Vietnam - Barely helps at all
France - Shows up for the beginning then disappears
Vietnam probably the lecturer that gave them an F
France : accidentally started doing the work, but immediatelly regret it
Trees speaking Vietnamese intensifies
Avery Lopez-Baines I’m Vietnamese so that means...
I CAN TALK TO THEM?
erin Yup
*Asian Rice Farmer With Ak-47 intensifies*
"Cây? Không tôi không phải cái cây"
What the Phúc
"In the region the war was known as . . ." The war was called The American War in Vietnam. They did not call it The Vietnam War. It was The American War.
more acrcurate: the war against US
Nuremberg... possibly war?
We should all call it that but then Syria would be called American war 2
We call "Cuộc kháng chiến chống Mỹ cứu nước" translate: "the war fight against america invade to save country"
The Vietnamese call it "the resistance war against America to save the country". This name is most correct because it describes the nature of the war. Our ancestors only repelled invaders to protect our sacred homeland. So proud and eternally grateful to those who have fallen for our peaceful lives today.
you guys are the reason that i love history love from norway and i love your videos
Because I’m Vietnamese I get weird looks by people in school every time a veteran mentions he serve in the Vietnam War in Veterans Day
The fish communist republic of Venezuela sameeeeeee, im half vietnamese and whenever the history teacher mentions communist or flashbacks everyone looks at me
This one's not hiding behind a tree
The real question is that are you from the South Vietnam or the North Vietnam.
@ I'm currently living in the South....So...South Vietnam, I guess?
@@saigon_pho6120 No idea.
The Infographics Show: “50 insane facts you didn’t know about the Vietnam War”
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Some people say "The US have LITERALLY NO BUSINESS starting that War vs. Vietnam ..." -- Please consider again regarding "BUSINESS", as per below
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Domino theory ? Stop the spread of communism ? Protect the "free world" ? ...
# Maybe. But please consider the following first.
# Imagine I was the owner of a company that makes ammunition for the US-army guns, plus canned food for the US Military.
# If the war in Vietnam went ahead (i.e. killing people, Vietnamese and Americans; expected to last years), I'd stand to make maybe 100 billion dollars in total (makers of helicopter gunships, artillery shells, military clothing, ... would probably make more money)
# If there wasn't any war, then I would not have that 100 billion dollars.
# In that case (no war) I would try to destroy any obstacle on my way of getting that 100 billion dollars.
# President John F Kennedy was hesitant about invading Vietnam and starting a war (he knew about Vietnamese people's history and spirits), and about to declare USA's no-war and non-involvement (or drastically reduced involvement)
# Please suggest what I do to get my 100 billion dollars. Thanks.
In the Marine Corps the smallest guy was the tunnel rat. I went in six tunnels and almost didn’t come out of four of them. Scariest thing I ever did. Still have nightmares.
Good job
Fun fact: Those tunnels you visited were actually modified to be bigger in size so that tourists can fit in. In war time, they were much smaller and more narrow
My first CSM in the Army was drafted into the war and ended up as a tunnel rat. He was about 5'2" and the meanest old dude I've ever met but we loved him.
You deserve the nightmares
Thank you for serving
In the first few seconds, it’s not democracy vs communism, it’s capitalism vs communism
Tam Minh Do hm, democracy is what they like to call. A lot of “democracy” still hiding deep underground and who knows when they are going to go off. Jese
A free economy is the mix of democracy and capitalism
NeGoPoS LOL.
French and Americans were business partners, no? Vietnam was just the tiny little Asian without a seat.
Well said I thought the same thing 👍
"50 Insane Vietnam facts you DIDN'T know if you've NEVER heard of the Vietnam War."
I was just thinking the same thing half way through the video but then again... the american education system...
Was thinking the same
1. USA lose Rice farmer
Who knew the U.S fought in the Vietnam War?
I already knew a lot of these. Thanks Infographics Show
😊! Great content
Vietnam soldiers: *hide in trees
The world: deforestation
Mr.Beast: plants 20mil trees
The world: you betrayed
Lol
Is not the world
Then they came up with doctor suese books and explained some of it....oops it's time to have our anti depression pill...
@HenryDaStick 🙏🧘💝
Yeah we would be dead
Vietnam is not the strongest country but the strongest countries fail to Vietnam
THat means were the strongest country.Right?
Quang Hoang hmmmm irony
USA really strongest country, but south vietnam really worst country, so USA be defeated
knell knell but the USA Army provide weapons for the South Vietnamese soldier and trained them professionally...
The North Vietnamese Nation Liberty Front (Vietcong) Aldo defeated a whole troop of 30.000 American soldier right?
@@steampunkprodigy8596 infact, american can win war without suppor south vietnam, why in a civil war battlefield just have american soliders and Vietcong soliders, where south vietnam military. Because they so useless, try take them to battle and they escape immediately.
Fun fact: Rambo once said he was their worst nightmare.
Nhân vật hư cấu
It's wasn't Democracy vs Communism it was Capitalism vs Communism.
Dont Forget how the Americans used Agent Orange which is still effecting lives down there !
I T S O K A Y W H E N W E D O I T
Sumit Chakraborty yeah,but only some places
thanks !
@@KienNguyen08 Yeah, ONLY SOME places like 1/4 of the bloody country, the rest gets washed off during the monsoon and spread ALL OVER THE DARN COUNTRY.
Uhmm that orange thing u call is a herbicide
The movie with Mel Gibson about the first engagement with Vietnam troops was called, “We Were Soldiers”. The Book it’s based on was called, “We Were Soldiers Once...(and Young)”written by Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore.
For those who are asking. Yes, we have speaking tree bushes as pets in our home :)
Fortunate Son Intensifies
Lmao!! Bout to comment the same thing 😂😂😂
It ain't me
That was actually an anti war song
YOU HAVENT HEARD THE SONGS I HEARD
An anti war song propaganda.
Who's Vietnamese here? 🙋♀️🙋♀️ My grandpa was in that war; I'm grateful he's alive
My 2 great-grandfathers died in Vietnam. Both VietCongs, one of them died but they never found a body probs just threw him into a mass grave. War is sad
My grandpa was, too!
👍
Vietnamese....!!!!
2 of my family members was involved in the war the first was my mom's uncle, got shot twice, he died. My father's dad lucky guy made out alive but didn't get to come to America intell 1985. Both men were Hmong fighting along side the Americans.
Nice !!!:)
You forgot the battle of Long Tan where 460 Australians defeated around 2,000 NVA troops, which earned great respect for the Australian soldiers from the NVA and VC. The respect was mutual.
460? Try a 100. D Company. 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.
You forgot number 51:
The U.S. was supposed to leave Vietnam after national democratic elections, but instead the U.S. remained and prevented the elections from taking place.
american: no no that's not how democracy works, let me show you
*deliver democracy to north Vietnam civilian by B52 bomber aircraft
@@khuongle2400
Có, nhưng không tốt.
@@BackSeatHump ??
@@Mr-Ad-196
Do you not know how it happened? Read a little bit of non-biased history. Or just ask me.
And the worse is US was supporting Vietminh during WW2..
51 ho Chi Minh had no animosity towards the United States in the beginning and actually saw them as an ally for their help in beating the Japanese and assuming they would be in favour of ending colonial rule by France as they had ended their own colonial rule by England. The United States decided capitalism was more important than a foreign people’s self determination to rule themselves as they pleased
Roosevelt and Truman attempted to get Britain and France to not recolonize their former colonies. Churchill said no to the. De Gaulle said if France doesn't, then they will be perceived as weak and Russia will take over France. The US effort in supporting France was to help keep their homeland country free.
France primarily left Vietnam because they didn't have sufficient number of soldiers in the Algerian war. Truman somehow dreamed up the Domino Theory. But Vietnam was a proxy war anyway between the two new super-nuclear powers, US and Russia.
I believe if Oswald hadn't assassinated JFK, the war would not have escalated.
@@ninemilliondollars : You are wrong. We fought for our independence and our motherland in thousands years. We don't care about communism or capitalism. No foreigner army can occupy in our motherland. Mongolian, Chinese, Japanese and French were known that.
@@lilbear5271 I agree. The Vietnamese patriotism for their country was something the U.S. didn't recognize during the war.
However, with the war having been over, it can be said Vietnam suffered much deprivation during the pure communist takeover of the entire contry with many rural people suffering. And furthermore, the relaxation on owning a business and property in the 1990''s shows the country adopted a more capitalist way of life. Yet people are still deprived of full freedom to practice religion of their choice.
@@ninemilliondollars try to help French defend their homeland by occupying Vietnam, half a globe away? Is this some corrupted colonists logic I'm too independent to understand?
@@ninemilliondollars Vietnamese ran our government our own way. Also, people can practice their religions freely as long as they don't commit crimes. Not everything other countries talk about Vietnam socialist regime is the full truth. Many came from political parties that want to overthrow the current government by asking for for foreign support in waging another war in VN. Don't let them fool you.
other country people: wow this is new, i didn't know it.
Me, as a student: I know this since grade 4
of course because we are Vietnamese
@@TuanTruong.6 Definitely
Meh. Im not vietnamese but i knew about most of these. Probably because im a history geek
0:50 Finland wasn’t part of the Soviet Union at that time.
And it never was!!!
I'm learning Vietnamese so I can speak for the trees.
I can speak to the trees
Haha hay quá
Vì Đảng!!!
Do you know the trees cover all vietnamese soldier in war that won power nation like USA, French , Japan and China From bombing ? You don't need to learn Vietnamese but need to know how hard Vietnam war History.
Wow , me đến từ Viet Nam
Who would win?
The Best military in the world with high technology (at that time)
Or
Rice farmers with some weird yellow cone hats.
1.2 million "rice farmers" literally died against 58 thousand Americans.
MAKZ JAY but the Us was still lose, we’re talking about the winner, and Us military were the best military on the world. And they was lose this war to against the rice famer. If you’re talking about body count, you’re not different with loser, who had lose this war.
Again only 58000 Americans? What ARVN, Thai royale army, Phillipine, S Korean army, Australia and New Zealand? What an idiot
All 1.2 million are just Vietcongs and NVA? Or innocent people too?
@@vudanhhoang6434 vietcongs the civillian casualties pass over 2 million
everyone gangsta until the bushes start whispering to each other about last nights poker game
there 4 kids that was 16 years old die in Vietnam !
Vietnam: there a millions of kids who not even teenager sacrificed there life holding AK-47, some innocent baby was severely killed also
Lv. 1 South Vietnam
Lv. 50 North Vietnam
edit: *_That's how communism works_*
Northern Vietnamese: well yes but actually no
Edit: southern Vietnamese keep fight for another ~25 years while northern Vietnamese sp them
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@@arandomguyel-9402 all resistance in the South was crushed after 2 years
So no
I like how most of your "amazing facts" are just recounting the history of the war
Yeah. Most or all of this isn't new
Sure but some of it wasn't mention in the history book and may have hard to summarize and read without this video.
Just a synopsis of the war given in a numbered set for those so intellectually lazy they can only ingest history in the form of a youtube video.
Incomplete & anti-U.S. Recounts selected anti-U.S. facts & omitting facts supporting U.S. actions.
I just posted saying exactly the same lol. Like, yeah... not 50 facts so much, insane or otherwise
I love the fact that you coloured Finland as part of the Soviet union but not Lithuania or Kaliningrad .
Fun fact: Vietnamese rice farmers can defeat the worlds biggest military
really tho
They won because America left. Not because of their military
@@hatguy4644 yeah
Everyone gangsta until the tree say :"dit con me may"
😁😁😁
Are you Vietnamese ?
Translation?
*Father lets son see a documentary on the Vietnam war
Nobody:
The son:"Dad, why are the trees and the bushes talking ?"
:))
My grand father fought in the war of Vietnam can we all get a salute❤️🇺🇸👏
As long as we can get one for my dad (a helicopter door gunner, III Corps 1965-67 -- only ungrateful vets would call him a REMF).
“Insane Facts you didn’t know #49: Vietnam was supported by China and Russia.” Thanks, that was one ‘insane fact’ I never heard of 😂.
I’m still a fan of The Infrographics Show, but a lot of these were common knowledge, with a clickbaity title...
When you are vietnamese and learning history but you still watching english fact about the war of your country...
Loving myself
Yes
Likewise me too 😉
not really tho
Vũ Tùng we feel that this battle was a waste of time and got 58000 people killed but at least we did take out 1200000 VC
@@jakestatefarm_khakis1050 still not a fun time tho
I visited Vietnam just 4 months ago and also went to visit one of the tunnel systems. We had the opportunity to cross one of these tunnels that went on for I believe 300 m in total and it was one of the most claustrophobic experiences I made... and I'm not even claustrophobic. It was so narrow that I couldn't turn around and so low that I had to bend down not only my back but also by legs ^^ ... but I was lucky that I a a rather short woman, a guy in front of me was so huge, that he had to crawl on all fours in order to get through it.
It was a very unique and rather terrifying experience to be so limited in the movements and I don't want to imagine how it would have been to be in the tunnels when being bombarded from above or having to transport injured comrades.
It made me realize how lucky I am to be born into a peaceful country and time.
The tunnels in visitor areas have been made larger due to the girth of foreign visitors, especially women. In Timbuktu I was told that the camel saddles had to be strengthened for the same reason.
to be fair, those tunels was made for Vietnamese troops in 1960s, who were considerably shorter than average height. Even to this day, Vietnamese people are still considered as short, even compared to some fellow Asian like Chinese, Japanese or Korean
I have been back twice since the war. The country is beautiful and the people very friendly. It gave me closure to go back and receive such a warm welcome.
Hey did you notice when you on your way, some of the tunnel was block off? I think those lead to deadly trap and dead end.
i went there too ... and its pretty claustrophobic. not for chickens like me. the country was very nice, with smiling people and rich culture - also amazing coffee.
the comments: tree.
me: haha french lost due to 100,000 normal civilian Vietnamese.
Me: Ooooooh a Vietnam war video
Also me: Hey google, play fortunate son
*fortunate son song intensifies*
A Vietnamese:
"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees."
We are Loraxes and we speak for the trees
I am the Lorax, i speak for the trees
I am one big Lorax, I speak for our trees
VitalNutrients I cant imagine the Lorax saying : “đụ má tự nhiên mày lại cắt cây dó”
The tree say: YOU PICK THE WRONG PATH, FOOL
Usa:hahahaha we are the most powerful country in the wolrd!!!
Vietnam:hold on my tree
Ussr:hahahaha we can turn you into pieces!!!!!!
Afghanistan:hold on my sand
*landmine
Sand and death
-Trump
Every country in the world:we literally are you
America:what no we have lived here forever I’m 100% American
Britain China Russia: YOUR LITERALY 33% US THREE YOU IMMIGRANT
Afghanistan never fought the U.S you idiot..🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ it was the Taliban.
@@Tikii_9 he said ussr not U.S
Much Power & Respect to Vietnam
From INDIA 🙏🇮🇳
L communism
@@Draglox 🤡 Enjoy your sweet Hijacked Capitalism
As sabaton once said “they where far too young to die in such a way”
No mention of the Tet Offensive. Really?
@Hoàng Nguyên Ba-dum- tish...
considering militarily it was a huge victory for the United States but it was the moment the war changed on the homefront from being supported
Due to a single evening news report from Walter conkrite saying "in this reporter's opinion there is no winning the war".
I would agree it should have been mentioned
It is a win on frontline battle but a lose at US home ground. Viet Cong won on media
Fking backstabbing vietcong and the world think they r victims LMAO :)))))
THANK YOU! I was going to say same thing... The guys on the tanks taking fire...THAT was my UNCLE on that tank guiding it taking hits...
Damn well better redo your list.
Niece of Marine Cpl David L Collins.
Killed at Tet offense 2/1/68
Gone before I was born but SURELY NOT FORGOTTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They’re in the trees! They’re in the god damn trees!
It was never a Civil War..
It was always a Revolutionary War..
My grandpa and two of my uncles served in the US military during the 60s. My grandpa served in Vietnam but my uncles served elsewhere since the military didn't want all the brothers of them in active service. My grandpa ended up being awarded 3 bronze stars during his service in Vietnam.
every soldiers from both sides need respect, and i respect your grandpa, he have been through alots here
from 'Nam
respect
You didn't mention Robert McNamara,Hanoi Jane and the final collapse when Walter Cronkite pronounced it over. You also forgot to mention the hate and disrespect and blame veterans suffered for years afterward. The cruelest thing I ever indured was older veterans who blamed us for the loss! I will go to my grave remembering being turned out by my own nation!
sorry to hear that ! there is no victory or loss for both sides ! There is just destruction !
I came home from incountry Vietnam in October of 1968. I was 19 years old. The reception I got at Oakland Army Terminal and the Oakland Airport had a profound effect upon me for the rest of my life. Just last February 2018 and January 31, 2019 I have been diagnosed with PTSD which has controlled/affected my life for over 50 years. For the next 20 years, unless I was applying for a job, I never told anyone that I was a Vietnam Veteran. LIfe like that, sucks.
Returning home (an idiotic statement if i ever heard one ). The peace movement threw human waste thrown at soldiers ,tried to pick fights, called is baby killers. My feelings it was not my nation any longer, the oaths i had sworned no longer bind me this has been reinforced by state of Georgia, and under the obamanation regime
David Presnell Thank you so much for your service. Total respect for you. Are you on FB?
Quit your belly aching baby killer!...Jane Fonda brought u and your goofy band of heroin addicts back alive!
11:50 yet people still call it a “civil” war. I guess the Americans just only had a trip in Vietnam and died“accidentally”...
If you’re talking casualties then you’d have to change that to ‘killed people “accidentally”’
“civil” war", LOL. So basically, 58,318 american tourists "ACCIDENTALLY" traveled to Vietnam and "ACCIDENTALLY" died in VN. btw and 303,644 "ACCIDENTALLY"wounded too :v
@@artfulcord so you mean the Americans really just had a trip there and were killed by the Vietnamese? What a bad choice unfortunately
@K John That's my whole point, which that I don't consider it a civil war either. The word "civil" here is only used as a trick to legalize America's invasion into other countries. And if you look closer, the Korean War is pretty much a battlefield between the world powers, while the Vietnam War is really between the Vietnamese and the Americans with their mercenaries from South Korea, Australia and so on.
@K John From what I know it is true that the Soviet and China did show efforts to pull the strings behind North Vietnam, but it turned out both the Soviet and China did not want Vietnam to unify at all. In the last days of the war, due to the tensions between Soviet and China, when Soviet was still supporting the North, China had made a conversation with the South to send troops to the Northern border in order to rescue the South. But it was the President of the South to decline the offer, in order not to shed more of the people's blood, and get the country to be unified. It was all the Vietnamese against foreign influences from world powers
Leave us alone we just want peace, we're tires to see ours family dies for thousands of years.
Why do you think that Vietnam has been attacked for so long and what
role has the west played in this ?
I distrust textbooks.
I live in america because of the Laotian civil war and my grandfather had to fight in war and helped america in the vietnam war. My mom lived in thailand and my dad lived in laos before moving to usa for helping in the secret war
"grandpa, whats your kdr in vietnam?"
If he didn't die it is technically infinity
Thats not funny
@@trungnguyen4208 why do so many people have Your last name
If he died there how could you ask him this question???
To all the people who didnt get it r/wooosh
*You should change the "You dont know" part to "might not know"*
A salute to all those veterans who fought and died in Vietnam. You guys deserve respect and all I see in this chat are insults.
If it was up to me, I would leave all these countries to deal with their own problems. US attempts to help people, all our brothers and sisters die and everyone hates us anyway. Leave these countries alone and let whatever happens, happen.
Couldnt agree more
@@peterparker9286 have you ever seen Americans do anything for free ??
@@phamkevin8191 This American has. I get what you saying though.
Yes, because helping French regain its colony is helping Vn. Thanks 👍