Choosing a topic

I chose this topic because my grandpa was in the Vietnam War and I think that it is an interesting topic to learn about and to play a game about. I also chose it because it seems like a challenge to make a game about the Vietnam War without making it violent and making it educational and I want a challenge.

These are my facts about the war and its links:

• Fact 1:Vietnamese waged an anti-colonial war against France and received $2.6 billion in financial support from the United States
• Fact 2:French defeat at the Dien Bien Phu was followed by a peace conference in Geneva, in which Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam received their independence and Vietnam was temporarily divided between an anti-Communist South and a Communist North
• Fact 3:To support the South’s government, the United States sent in 2,000 military advisors, a number that grew to 16,300 in 1963.
• Fact 4:From 1968 to 1973 efforts were made to end the conflict through diplomacy.
• Fact 5:The Vietnam War cost the United States 58,000 lives and 350,000 casualties. It also resulted in between one and two million Vietnamese deaths.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/vietnam/index.cfm