Question

How was agent orange and napalm used in the Vietnam war?

Answer 1

Hint: The Vietnam war was a long conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam and its ally, USA. It lasted from 1955 to 1975. Communist forces ended the war by capturing South Vietnam. The US withdrew from the war in 1973 after it faced massive backlash from American citizens.

Complete answer: - During the Vietnam war, the US military used chemical weapons against the army of North Vietnam, the two most important of these were Agent Orange and Napalm.
- Napalm is a gel which causes serious burns, enough to cause unbearable pain and even death.
- Even people who are not directly hit with the napalm can suffer damage because of suffocation.
- Between 1966 to 1973 the US military dropped around 400,000 tonnes of napalm on Ho Chi Minh’s army. Many suffered more than 60% burns, enough to kill.
- The other chemical weapon used by them was Agent Orange, which has long-lasting effects on the human body, agent orange was a liquid chemical.
- US soldiers sprayed this liquid in the forests of North Vietnam, to kill the tress and expose the enemy soldiers, they also infected the crops and farms of the enemy to cut off their food supply.
- However, it had far more serious effects as it infected the groundwater as well. People living in that area to this day experience health problems and birth defects.

Note: Vietnam was finally unified under the name of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976, however, violence still continued for the next 15 years, conflicts with neighbouring countries like China were also present. Trade between the USA and Vietnam resumed in the late 1990s.