The Vietnam War - Part 2 - The Fall of Saigon
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• The Vietnam War - Part 1
How much do you really know about the Vietnam War (Or Second Indochina War)?
Come with me as we dive deep intro the history of Vietnam, from the First Indochina War against France, all the way to the war against the United States of America.
Operation Rolling Thunder awaits, do not click away!
This video covers topics including: The tet offensive, the Phoenix Program, The Easter Offensive, The Watergate Scandal, The My Lai Massacre, the invasion of Laos and Cambodia, The use of Chemical Herbicides, The Cu Chi Tunnels and Operation Cedar Falls, Vietnamization, Nixon's treason, and of course, the Fall of Saigon!
This video was heavily based on the Wondrium.com course on the Vietnam war! (Not Sponsored, I just really like it)
Also, if you want to know more about the dirty deeds of the US during the war, I highly suggest you read William Blum's "Killing Hope", which is highly detailed and has great sources.
This video was heavily inspired by Oversimplified and Bill Wurtz (Especially his history of the entire world, I guess)
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Old Kissinger:
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I like watching stuff like this
could you also perhaps mention the cambodian war?
maybe like a small cambodian american war?
its fine if you can't
but i do love your videos regardless.
(vietnam gets invaded by china for invading cambodia, spoiler alert)
u need 2 do video on 3rd Indochina war
Do you have a discord server?, it’d be cool to talk to other fans of this amazing channel there and suggest topics for your new videos
I am planning on making one before the next video! So keep an eye out for when it is launched@@Finland_yes
Love ❤u. plz do consider about making videos on the Roman Empire , Byzantine and the ottoman Empire.
Bro really said "fine i'll do it myself" after oversimplifed didn't upload. Props to you, this is super high quality
He teased it with a release date in 2035
he also teased the french revolution in 2027-2030, i think he was joking lol@@hardiystreams9878
😂
What if this is Oversimplified's real voice and he paid someone else to narrate?
imagine. i doubt it though@@sominboy2757
As a Vietnamese, this is a very well-explained series from both perspectives of the North and South with their issues and governments. Growing up, history in school seems to be one-sided; for example, they mark the Tet Offensive as a morale victory, even though they lost more troops than ARVN and US forces combined, which didn't make sense for a 12-year-old me back then. Now, I have the privilege to study abroad in the US; I learned a lot from the books, journals, and memoirs from the war, and sure as hell, I was surprised. The background support from the American people to end the war and the political struggle of the South was never heard of ( at least from academic books). Fantastic job on the series, and all the best!!!
P/s: Sorry for the horrible grammar lol~.
As an American, I bid my condolences to your country and wish for a good recovery decades later.
I hear that Vietnam largely forgives the US and has moved on to become rivals with the PRC. Why the heck would you guys forgive us? I hear it's a cultural thing but even as a Christian, I would find it difficult to forgive someone invading and destroying my country.
@@delano4526 I mean we now look to the US as a potential trade partner and protector since the PRC 9 dash line took most of our sea economic zones and 2 of our oil rigs which we are heavily relied on so the heat started from there. Also the people now is fond of US culture like crazzzzy from fashion to other stuff. So i think we are like totally seeing 🇺🇸 different then back then for sure :3
Tet WAS a morale/political victory. You sound like a woke teenager who read a few more books from the opposite perspective and think that the history textbook "lied", pick up an American history textbook and come back here tell me if they are honest with all the truth in their book. It is a book for teenagers ffs, wtf do you expect?
@@nguyentrunghieu3597 i’m just pointing out the discrepancies and the differences in both side perspectives. I’m sorry if I offended you in anyway :3
Thank you for acknowledging the awful things Henry Kissinger did to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
In school, I live in America, the standard curriculum only briefly mentioned Kissinger and did not touch much on the civilian sides of things. It was my individual teachers who spoke about the atrocities that the US committed and explained the civilian side of the war.
May that devil burn in hell for the lives he destroyed
I agreed with very few ideas of Henry Kissinger, but one thing I absolutely agree with him on was the bombing of eastern Cambodia. If I had been in his position, I too would've been prepared to do almost anything to keep the Khmer Rouge from taking power and push out the invading North Vietnamese Army that was violating Cambodia's sovereignty and actively trying to conquer it. I know as many as 50,000 civilians died due to the bombing campaign, but I don't pretend war isn't hell, but that is no reason to not do what is right for an important ally in need of desperate help with defending themselves against a foreign invader. It's also worth noting that only 17% of all civilian casualties can be attributed to the US bombing campaign, it was not the leading cause of civilian casualties in any way, which is also a reason why I would've supported nearly anything that could've possibly stopped that wretched invasion of North Vietnam that ended up killing so many millions of people.
Man. He along with Dick Cheney are probably the most evil men to come out of the US. And the fact that he lived to a 100 is proof that divine justice doesn’t exist.
THE CIA FUNDED THE KHMER ROUGE MATE@@8is
Bro, the Khmer Rouge was a direct result of the Cambodian bombings. The Cambodians were left extremely resentful of America after the war, which led to people turning to communism, forming the Khmer Rouge. Also, North Vietnam overthrew the Khmer Rouge due to their brutality, not America.
@@cindychoo7 Lol somehow 8is got every point wrong. North Vietnam only had the Ho Chi Minh trail that goes through Cambodia. The US just decided to bomb the whole country just to be safe. North Vietname invading Cambodia makes zero sense
In the absence of OverSimplified himself, it's great that someone else is continuing what he did.
-every Things I Care About commenter ever
Agreed
It's nice he makes it humorous but at serious moments he becomes serious and respects the ones who got affected by the war. Very Similar to oversimplified.
OverSimplified need make this videos.
This man is gonna become the next oversimplified. It's kinda sad you only have 30k subscribers but i am sure if you continue like this you will have way more. Keep up the good work
Great video! This was a great 2-part series!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fancy seeing you here, Mr. Terry! 😊
The funny thing is that Le Duc Tho and Kissinger both got offered the Nobel Peace Prize as the two people who signed the final treaty. Le Duc Tho saw this as a joke and declined the Nobel Prize, while Kissinger was more than happy to receive it.
Because Le Duc felt peace hadn't been achieved yet
Kissinger thật trơ trẽn. Kẻ đi gieo rắc chiến tranh ( cái chết) lại là người nhận giải Nobel hòa bình 😂 thật nực cười.
The fact that the US imposed a economic embargo to Laos and Vietnam after bombing their country back to the 18th century and ruining their agricultural land just shows how disgusting the US policies in the Cold War were.
Still are … Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Were? Wrong verb tense, bro
@@ryanimpink13 I'm not a native speaker.
@@StekTM1 My friend! I was not critiquing your English! I was making a little joke that the U.S. policy STILL IS disgusting. I am an American and agree with you! Your English is excellent by the way. Congratulations.
@@ryanimpink13no it isn’t it’s fine
I know that everyone keeps saying "your the next oversimplied" and they insist on continuing to compare you guys with every new video you upload. But i just wanted to say i love your content on it's own without even thinking about oversimplified. Obviously your content was heavily inspired by his, but despite that the topics you cover, your rapid upload schedule and your demeanor and professionalism in your videos makes me like you more than him. When you upload i dont think "i guess ill watch this cause it reminds mw of this other guy and he hasnt uploaded in a while" im genuinley excited to see your stuff for what it is because you have your own unique way of explaining history that i love. Keep up the good work ❤
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate them!
You definitely have to make sequels for this masterpiece ! The Vietnam-Cambodia War and the Sino-Vietnam War...
Hey don't forget about the Cambodian Genocide. A direct consequence of this conflict.
@@stevenoviedo541Yeah, he could make a 2 part series like this one. The first about the rise of the Khmer Rouge to power and the genocide they inflicted on their population and the second about the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia...
Even someone as pro-American as I cannot deny that we were the aggressors in this conflict and that we deserved to lose.
Thanks for the content… very enlightening, indeed~
So much of an aggressors in fact, that they threw the South Vietnamese border on innocent North Vietnamese soldiers
@@stepanotrisal1512 I despise communism with every fiber of my being, but I have enough of a conscience to know that bombing defenseless civilians is an abhorrent war crime and must be condemned as such.
@@InalienableLiberty Did the US do bad things in Vietnam? Yes. Was it always necessary to do those bad things? No.
But that's true about almost every side in every war. VC and North Vietnam certainly had no issue bombing, shooting or burning civilians with flamethrowers. I wouldn't say WW2 or American Civil War were simple cases of US agression, even though both were lined with horrifying and often unnecessary massacres perpetrated by US.
@@stepanotrisal1512 |
This.
I as well am pro-US, but frankly, this war was a political one. We really just wanted to get involved because we didn't agree with their politics, and tons and tons of american troops died because of it.
My granddad went over because he thought he was going to fight in the next WW2, a heroic war, but he ended up in the 615th MP in '68-'69, and what he told me he saw honestly paints a pretty good picture. The americans commited war crimes, of course they did, I can't deny or defend that, but the VC did equally horrifying stuff. The MPs had to deal with at least two incidents where explosives set up to kill american transport vehicles blew up civilian cars.
And then we pulled out of vietnam, left the south to basically fend for itself. We lost millions of men, killed thousands of civilians, spend trillions of dollars, then just left like nothing happened. I consider it one of the first big failures of the modern military.
@@InalienableLiberty there has never been a communist society. You should hate fascism instead. It is the definition of evil and America along with Europe is falling to it, which scares the hell out of me. And no I am not a communist lol, I am just saying that if you read Karl Marx's teachings, then you know that communism has never been achieved. At least communists fight for equality (although many leftists like me also do that), while fascists always fight for genocide.
Loved every minute of this, thanks mate! Excellent work.
Thank you!
Forgot to mention that punji stakes were often smeared with shit to infect the wound if it was superficially nonlethal
Wait they just shit on the sticks 😂
This Vietnam War video has been incredible!!! 💯
Excellent work !
Thank you!
@@ThingsICareAboutill be happy if you put the caption english. The auto generated subtitles not matching. Sorry im not england boy so its hard for me to understand it just by listen(maybe there is others like me) :D
Apologies for the delay! I just uploaded the subtitles/captions, so it should be working now! It may take youtube a while to process it, but it will be working any moment now!@@pffttttttt
@@ThingsICareAbout Ill spread your channel as fast as the fake news and thank you so much for notice my commnt 👍🏻😁
13:21 - 13:28
Legit feels like an Oversimplified joke. XD
Nice work by the way. 👍
I commented on the first video my grandfather was an American soldier who was in the 4th infantry division in pleiku from 1968 to 70 he experienced the horrors of searching the jungle and getting attacked off and on and when he wasn’t in the jungle he was in fire base oasis which was overrun during the tet offensive he knows first hand what it was like and I respect him greatly for it and him being able to talk about it. Also my old bus monitor was in the 25th infantry division in plieku the years before my grandfather was there. My grandfather also believes he caught lung cancer from agent orange and other chemicals used during the Vietnam war
This is the kind of content oversimplified started with. I really enjoyed his early videos, but he is making his videos get more and more childishly weird. (The potty jokes are getting really out of hand). This channel captures the history very well and has the perfect amount of humor to keep viewers engaged.
Thank you! That is exactly my goal!
I didn't know Vietnam War was actually this deadly and important to the Cold War, and even to present day. Thank you for sharing.
They shoved it under the rug because it was the 3rd world, I beg you didn’t know Pablo Escobar wanted to be the president of Colombia and invade USA, insane words but true but shove under the rug since it’s 3rd world countries
This was only the beginning. We suffer a lot after the war. Our country was the most devastated soil on the entire earth in the 20th century.
Thank you this got me through the hard times when over simplified isn't here continue the good work please.
Today is a good day. Our man updated a new episode.
Cool series! I’m glad you did it since Oversimplified hasn’t done it yet, but this is really good!
I love your initiative, your videos are very nice and fun to watch!
Thank you for doing this , I really appreciate it cause I am learning it for my project... ❤
My grandpa said that when he was leaving his mandatory service in Vietnam, they basically implied that he’d be sent back out to fight and die if he told anyone what was happening in Cambodia. And now we know what happened
What happen?
Oustanding channel, hope it keeps growing.
Love from Argentina!!!❤
U r the best - bro followed up on oversimplified and made it better. I subscribed bcs of this
Sent from Mr. Terry. I hope you keep growing and find a community that supports you!!
Amazing job keep them coming you glorious GigaChad
Great video with well explaining
Great work, hope you continue to grow
Excellent work bro, keep it up
I suggest you do the gulf war next ir the korean war
Your content is amazing thank you for doing it!
Thank you things I care about for delivering this topic with so much attention,detail,and hardwork.This part was absolutely stunning and beautiful as much as the previous one.We will be waiting eagerly for your next future project.Thank you again bro.
thank you for the kind comment!
@@ThingsICareAbout No problem bro
Great video! I learned quite a bit.
awesome video as always
Honestly very good. Really enjoyable
Finally! I was waiting for this
Bro i love your videos, hope you grow
Really enjoyed watching this!
Well done, truth said trough excellent animation!
I'm happy to see "Things I Care About" being so dedicated to his channel he time-travelled to get to that press conference! 😄 ( 10:53 )
Great videos, very knowledgeble. I have never learned anything on the vietnam war matter, so these videos was really helpful to understand what it was all about - and in the end pointless. It makes me sick, how the americans reacted and feel bad for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. 😢
I just subbed btw.
This is so well made and informative, amazing work!!
thank you!
Love your vids!
I’ve been waiting for this, even though it’s a copy of oversimplified he still does it well and even adds his own element to it.
brilliant vids man
subscribed. and i love your humor.
I love these videos
Very well explained video
As a regular Oversimplified watcher, I am so happy to see someone continuing his legacy in his own terms. Team ThingsICareAbout, massive congratulations to you for the superb effort you put in explaining such complicated Geopolitical war such "Oversimplified"ally! ❤️ Congratulations from India!
If hell is real, Kissinger and Nixon are definitely being spit roasted there rn...
May your wishes be granted
Hell is real but so is heaven which one do you want to go too?
@@Tanknuggets217 the one without Henry Kissinger in it
Baruch Hashem
Nice keep doing this stuff. it is almost as good as the original.
Hey man great vid
Short video of Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)?
Besides that. Excellent done. Well explained.
Hey man, love the videos! Just one thing I noticed is that when you show US troops you often show them with an m16a2 instead of the more historically accurate m16a1. A way you can tell the difference is that the m16a1 has a triangular hand guard and a straight 20 round magazine instead of the 30 round curved ones.
Looking forward to part 2, great video :)
My brother in Christ, this was part 2
@@ThingsICareAboutthis made me giggle
Excellent video once again.
Thank you, kind stranger
Wink wink
Really enjoyable
this is extremely well made
excellent series. can you please do one about the Afghan war next?
This should get millons of views
Bruh you’re the only guy from my subscriptions that uploaded today. Thank you for existing :)))
You are an excellent CZcams channel with some captivating, well edited, and well narrated historical content! Subbed! Keep up the amazing work! I hope nothing but massive growth for your channel!
I hope you do a video about the 3rd Indochina war as well
Amazing! Just amazing! I can not thank you more for this series as a South Vietnamese person! However, you should of put the Battle of Xuan Loc as a quick thing before Sai Gon because of how crazy it was. Other then that, THANK YOUUUUU!
When Oversimplified has a indefinite release date, it's good to know that you picked up the opportunity to make simplified history on CZcams. Thank you
It's crazy to think that this only happened 50 years ago. The brutality and logic is just insane.
Best Vietnam war video ever!😃
oversimplyfied but more uplods and a funny accent i love ur vids man ( can u make one on greek mithology )
Great video
Good job dude, keep it up.
13:22 that shown on the screen, made me laugh so hard 😂
Please please pleeeaaaaase do a video on the third Indochina War. It's very rarely discussed and id love to see it get attention. Same with the 1848 revolutions and the Paris Commune
I love the way ypu explain things, it makes it so much easier for me to understand what I need to study for my history paper tomorrow! Could you do one on the Cuban Missile Crisis?
It is a very good video Mr.brain and thanks for liking my comment waiting for your next video
Good show
Great video, I just wish you could have said a few more details about what happened in Cambodia and how the US caused it because it is such a forgotten issue. 1/4 of the population was killed by Pol Pot and almost nobody in the west knows even though they are partly to blame.
You did an awesome job showing both sides equally drawing attention to what most people miss.
US wasn't the only one who Pol Pot got his power, it was both North Vietnam and US. Both of them were the instrumentals for Pol Pot rise.
@@jemappllesphan6143 Not to mention PolPot was a huge hypocrite and traitor killing people for no apparente reason and betraying Ho Chi Minh
The US did not cause the Cambodian Genocide in anyway, the US was instrumental in the effort to stop it at any cost. North Vietnam invaded Cambodia and supported and fought with the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodian government, which eventually sent and ultimate that all North Vietnamese soldiers must leave Cambodia (they obviously refused) and together with the US and South Vietnam, they launched the Cambodian Campaign and started bombing their common enemies, the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam who had no right violating Cambodia's sovereignty. The real tragedy was when the US abandoned Cambodia and thereby gave the North Vietnamese the opportunity to put the Khmer Rouge into power.
@@8is no it's different
The US Brought about the situation for the khmer rouge to rise and, without Ho Chi Minh knowing about the genocides, North Vietnam supported them, but the deal was that Vietnam would get some Land of Cambodia, and originally PolPot agreed but he then refused to give It Upon winning, this added to the reveal of the genocides Brought tensions between the two countries that escalated into a war, with China attacking Vietnam in support of the Cambodians and the Americans seeing this as the chance to gain their Little Vietnamese puppet secretely sent men to fight against the Vietnamese on PolPot's side (technically). However Vietnam repelled the Chinese, defeated the Americans and marched on the Cambodian Capital untile the Berlin Wall fell, at that point Vietnam was scared of an eventual collapse of the USSR and pulled out of Cambodia ensuring tho that PolPot leaves Cambodian politics and people get to vote on their government
And they voted for a Constitutional Monarchy (it's unsure if the vote was legit tho because of the American influence)
@@8isThe US bombing destabilised Cambodia which let Pol Pot rise to power, the US’s involvement was indirect.
However when the Cambodian people overthrew Pol Pot the US and the rest of the world didn’t recognise the new democracy and continued to recognise Pol Pot and even gave him funding during a famine while he was living in luxury in exile. He died in luxury with no one giving him any sort of punishment for the atrocities he committed.
Thank you for your contribution to youtubes history community
The new Oversimplified
Knowing how detrimental the war was in terms of casualties and destruction, I came to appriciate our Government even more. Of course there were flaws at times but overall we are doing well, we have adequate infrastructure, sky scrapers, 5G, great technology, and even did so good back in the covid pandemic. I'm so proud to be a Vietnamese
Hey I gave you a paetron suggestion! (Commented on your latest poll)
Yes, I saw it! I will take the day off and go answer patreon tomorrow! Thank you for your patience!
Demanding are we ? 😂
@@2700arne no just a suggestion 😭
The most messenger conversation ever:
Everyone is right, dude. Keep up the great work!!!!
Man, I’ve been on CZcams since nearly the very start but rarely have I felt like I’ve been subbed to a channel before they absolutely blew up in popularity. Glad I’ve finally found a channel on the ground floor. You are absolutely going to be one of the big edu channels in the next few years. Your videos are class.
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Thankyou❤🎉😊
nice video
I am not vitamins but, this ppl were formidable fighters, Great video explaining everything thanks 👍
OVERSIMPLIFIED IS GONNA POST
Question: was the thumbnail based off the video: the fall of saigon (april 30th, 1975) - The end of the Vietnam war
😆😆😆😆 I know who you are! I met your other channel when you were uploading videos reacting to OverSimplified. You're a funny guy, keep uploading
The oversimplified 2.0 we got but didn’t deserve
Yes! Keep going!
Bro is just a better version of oversimplfied who actually has a functional uploading system
Learning world history without a blatant US centric perspective is mind-numbingly horrifying.
More, please.
big fan of you sir but is it possible to put subtitles. thanks a bunch!
Masterclass teaching
Vietnam war in a nutshell:
America: I dont like red, lets kill them all.
North Vietnam: Nah, were just trynna unify ppl but were down to fight if we really have to.
America gets rekd*
America: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo stop the war so many lives dead😢
More like:
North Vietnam: I am not an imperialist aggressor at all 😉(proceeds to invade three independent and sovereign countries, annexing on of them and putting puppet governments in the other two while occupying one of them for an entire decade until it loses to a actual rice farmers xD).
This just needs a veiled intro to a NordVPN ad in the middle :)
Another amazingly thought out video! I’m planning to make my own history channel so it it ok if I take some ideas for ok yours?
Ok course! Good luck with your channel!
Hello dude! Really love your videos! What editing software do you use?
Hi! I use After Effects and Premiere Pro
@@ThingsICareAboutok thanks! Keep up the good work man!
Personally, I really wish you didn't try to be Oversimplified. The video is at its strongest when it shows the seriousness of the events and the attempts at humor undercut that in my impression. I think you can hold people's interest well enough in your own style of talking. Still a very engaging video either way and I look forward to seeing what you have in store next.