<span>General Vo Nguyen Giap, leader of the Communist People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), planned the offensive in an attempt both to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its support of the Saigon regime.</span>
What is imperialism?
<em>Imperialism is the </em><u><em>state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion</em></u>
How is it justified?
<u><em>Claiming that it was their responsibility.</em></u> <em>Americans and Europeans both claimed that it was their responsibility as superior races to uplift, civilize and Christianize native peoples. This was known as the White Mans Burden and was based upon the ideas of social Darwinism.</em>
I believe this act allowed for the legal extraction of guano from Pacific islands for their rich phosphate content for fertilizer and gunpowder. Alexander von Humboldt first publicized the value of guano as having like 50 times the phosphate of other phosphate deposits when he sent samples of it from Peru to Europe..
They joined their armies, however, they were not the only ones, as many more war generals with armies joined. This enabled them to have enough manpower to fight the Spanish and eventually kick them out.