Victory of the General Offensive and Uprising in the Spring of 1975 - the Victory that Rooted in the Cultural and Moral Causes of Vietnamese People

Abstract

50 years after the end of the American War in Vietnam, students in Vietnam and abroad still examine and re-examine the reasons for lost of the USA and her allies as well as the causes of the victory of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and her allies in the South. Many different interpretations on the moral factors of the war have been suggested. In this article, the author tries to examine three cultural – moral factors that he argues to be the most important causes for the final victory of the Vietnamese people, namely the way to legitimize the war, the Vietnamese patriotism and the Vietnamese national heroism. From multiperspective point of view, the author examines how each partner of the warfare approached to each issue and made their solutions and that is the way he supposes for alternative understanding the war.