" The Vietnam War was fought to support our alliance with the US and in the effort to stop the spread of communism. ... Menzies view on the Vietnam War was that at all costs it had to be fought by Australians and won, he greatly supported the war against communism that it was to neutralize the threat and to serve our alliance with the US under the ANZUS treaty. ... This wasn't a big issue until 1966 when the government announced they would be sending the conscripts overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. ... Most of the newspaper such as "the Age" stated that the Vietnam War...

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Well this is pretty much how the Vietnamese felt when the United States had decided to step in and involve themselves in the Vietnam war as a way to prevent communist takeover of south Vietnam. ... Furthermore into how human rights were violated in Vietnam which made the war unjust was the use of Napalm. ... As for my final reason for on why I believe the Vietnam war was unjustifiable is because the Vietnam War was not our fight to begin with. ... Lastly the United States true intention for being involved in the Vietnam war was to avoid direct conflict with the Soviet Union in order to avoid...

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Most general books and texts on the Vietnam War (including Moss' Vietnam, An American Ordeal, Fourth Edition) gloss over, if not skip entirely, the role of women in Vietnam. ... Unlike the men who served in the U.S. military during the war, all women in Vietnam were volunteers since they were not subject to the draft. In a war that became less and less popular as the years went by, American women still were motivated to join the effort in Vietnam. ... Some of these women traveled in and out of Vietnam at various intervals during the war, while others had a more permanent presence in th...

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Forty-seven volumes cover U.S. involvement in Indochina from World War II through May 1968, the month the peace talks began in Paris. ... Johnson summarizing the situation in Vietnam as very disturbing. ... A second major segment of the Johnson administration's covert war against North Vietnam was air operations in Laos, where a force of propeller-driven North American T-28 fighter-bombers had been organized. ... Was the clandestine war of 1964 outlined in the Pentagon Papers successful? Apparently not, for in February 1965, Operation Rolling Thunder--the sustained air war--was ordered to...

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After America's defeat of Japan in World War II, the French continued its colonial rule in Vietnam until 1954 when the Vietminh, Ho Chi Minh's communist army, defeated it once and for all. ... Eisenhower imposed a demilitarized zone on Vietnam that split the country into two and effectively delineated a civil war boundary between the Northern communists under Ho Chi Minh's rule and the Southern nationalists under Ngo Dinh Diem. ... The statement clearly shows the American's ambition on Indochina and Vietnam. ... (intro)"In October 1949, US policy moved swiftly to full-scale...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. ... In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. French troops were concentrated in fortresses in North Vietnam fighting a static war. ... French public opinion had long turned against the war and "sale guerre" ("dirty war") was on everyone's lips. ... VIETNAM AFTER THE FIRST INDO-CHINESE WAR The Geneva agreements of 1954, which divided Vietnam along 17th parallel (later known as...

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Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War film, "Apocalypse Now," tells a vivid, gruesome, realistic, and terrifying story of one of America's worst battles just after it ended in 1975. The film uses beautiful cinematography along with superb sound mixing, soundtracks, and a huge budget to recreate the Vietnam War as closely as possible. ... The sounds of the helicopters spinning blades dissolve into Captain Willard's illusion that his ceiling fan is in fact a helicopter from his visions and recent memories of the Vietnam war. ... The imagery produced by Vittorio puts the viewer d...

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In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. ... Small begins his outline of the anti-war movement with what he calls the "Americanization of the war" when the majority of Americans were supportive of action in Vietnam. ... The author argues, both from historical and from political perspectives, that the anti-war movement did in fact directly and in...

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It also had a major but not decisive impact on the 1952 Geneva conference, clearing the way for the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel; which in turn would lead to the creation of the National liberation front against the corrupt Diem regime, inevitably catalysing the 2nd Indochina war into play. ... Furthermore, the French public support and faith was sapped and the French Communist Party against the war gained momentum. ... The resounding victory for Ho and his Vietminh enhanced their status within Vietnam and fuelled their commitment to go on to establishes a united and independe...

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Tim O'Brien must be frustrated, in a way, that he is associated so strongly with the Vietnam War. ... This is not to say that Vietnam is merely incidental in O'Brien's work; the war in which he served obviously had a lasting and unresolved effect on his own identity, as well as on American identity in general. ... It consists of magazine and newspaper journalism which provides a direct account of the War at its worst. ... O'Brien treats the Vietnam War even more obliquely in his novel In the Lake of the Woods (1994), the story of Kathy Wade's disappearance from a seclu...

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Comparative Analysis These two letters put forward by Arnold Mann and Cynthia O"Keefe, I protested against Vietnam - but this is different and Please, Mr Howard, give peace a chance respectively, give two sides to an issue making headlines all over the world. ... The article written by Mr Mann titled I protested against Vietnam - but this is different uses several different techniques to influence the reader. Mr Mann is adamant that this almost inevitable war with Iraq is not the same as Vietnam. After having protested against the Vietnam war, the writer says that Vietnam was different...

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Mia Lynn confronted this exact challenge when she entered a contest to design the Vietnam Veteran Memorial. ... Non-representational art such as Mia Lynn's Vietnam Veteran Memorial, is not straightforward and too the point. ... Looking at a statue of a soldier or an American flag, you think patriotism, war but to view a slab of granite disappearing into the earth, you must put yourself in the place of a Vietnam soldier and decipher why this memorial symbolizes Vietnam, abstract but effective. ... Without that extra thought that the audience goes through, it represents every war, every s...

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The Korean War 1950-1953 was the first proxy conflict of the Cold War costing 5 million lives, 54,000 of which were American soldiers, yet it has often been described as America's, "forgotten war." Thus, eluding to the idea that it was not as significant to world affairs or security as other conflicts during the Cold War such as in Vietnam. ... " This essay shall evaluate how significant the American government perceived the Korean War to be to global security by analysing key documents from the early war period such as daily summaries in addition to key speeches and NSC 68 and 48/2...

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Vietnam war ), religion ( eg. the current Palestinian and Israelian internal conflicts ), and sexual orientation. ... Victims or survivors of holocaust, for example, the Cambodian women, were subjected to physical injury, torture and sexual assault during the war. ... The legacy of war is the trauma and losses of surviving soldiers, veterans and civilians. For the sake of war, political strategies shape the body, so sacrificing is necessary. ... Eg, Vietnam Memorial Wall. ...

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Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. One would establish strict limits on the President's power to take the country into war without specific authorization by Congress, in pursuance of the power to declare war given to the Congress by the Constitution. ... Then too, as with the undeclared war in Vietnam, this was a bi-partisan phenomenon. ... One difficulty was foreseeing the contingencies under which war may arise. ... Senators Church of Idaho and Case of New Jersey introduced a bill forbidding the use of any funds whatsoever ...

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When a country is engaged in war, the country deserves to know what is occurring in its foreign affairs, to a certain extent. The Vietnam War for example, majority of the press posted exceedingly vague material about the war and broadcasted it on TV as well, which is far enough for American society to comprehend. ...

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War is the part of the human condition that inflicts the most pain on mankind. The United States has dealt with its fair share of war, and in the past, many of America's wars have been justifiable on the grounds of self-defense, but today that has changed. ... For instance, take the Vietnam War, a highly controversial affair in which fifty-five thousand Americans lost their lives. Supposedly our government wanted Vietnam to be a democratic and free nation, yet the American government installed the corrupt despot Ngo Dinh Diem under the guise of free elections, which were, in all actual...

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By using the major themes of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad as inspiration, Francis Ford Coppola created an honest portrayal of one of the most controversial periods of time in America's history: the Vietnam war. ... By using the colonization of Africa and the Vietnam War, an outsider is set up to witness several, if not many, atrocities committed by man to man. ... Both apply acts of racism, as well, in exploring the demoralization of those at war in Vietnam and on the selfish obliteration of a timeless culture and region. ... The book shows hordes of Europeans ravaging a sensitiv...

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In doing this he was advancing Vietnam's independence. ... Many historians such as David Kaiser (1998) proposed that Ho turned to communism subsequent to America's refusal to help him end French domination in Vietnam. After all, all of the other Nationalist parties in Vietnam prior to 1920 did not achieve their goal of overthrowing the French. ... Ho Chi Minh tried to create a socialist revolution in Vietnam aimed at the rising of the whole nation in order to overthrow the ruling French and become independent. ... William Duiker, Minh's biographer, a man who served in Saigon...

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The War on Terrorism and Terror The United States climate after the surprise 9/11 terrorist attacks was somber, fearful and turbulent. ... Taking action on that foreign policy, the United States waged a war against terrorism which initiated the invasion of Afghanistan to bring justice to al Qaeda for their terrorist attacks, remove the Taliban regime that supported al Qaeda and their declaration of holy war against America, and establish peace and democracy in Afghanistan. ... A war on terror was declared by President Bush and Iraq and Saddam Hussein were the main targets. ... American pol...

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Vietnam however, challenged that presumption. The Vietnam War had a deep impact on the United States' application of foreign policy, especially, relative to its relationship to the Russians. ... Additionally, the experience of Vietnam shattered the bipartisan accord on American foreign policy. ... This unlikely harmony among Congress had all but disintegrated consequent to Vietnam. The war cracked the campaign of ant-communism which had been the preeminent ideology throughout the cold war, and which was made clear in Kennedy's inaugural speech. ...

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What have been the effects of the "War on Terror" on Australia's relations with South-East Asia? The "War on Terror" has generally improved Australia's relations with South-East Asia. ... Other Southeast Asian nations including Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam have been less active in the war on terrorism and thus there has been little effect on Australia's relations with these nations. ... The "war on terror" saw many South East Asian nations including Brunei, Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia (Kampuchea), Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and...

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However, the Vietnam War generated more debate and controversy than that of any other war in history between the great rival ideologies of communism and capitalism. ... Map showing who were supporting North Vietnam and South Vietnam in the Vietnam War, 1954). Therefore, the war that was fought in Vietnam prolonged more tension between USA and China, capitalism vs. communism. ... In the late 1960's the US got out of the Vietnam War, because of the loss of many American lives in the senseless conflict. ... Through both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, one can see that even though both US...

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At the end of the Second World War, France lied in ruins and Vietnam was left with no governmental occupation after the surrender of the Japanese. ... It would take another nine years until Vietnam would be independent. ... On 2nd September 1945, was the day Ho Chi Minh formed the peoples' republic of Vietnam and was also the day he spoke out about his anti-French movements. ... The ability to achieve this was assisted by the fact that Vietnam had just suffered from a famine due to the conditions of world war two. ... This was an advantage that the Viet Minh had in the revolutionary war a...

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The war showed that cooperation between government and business could enrich the people and all aspects of economy. ... (10) Johnson's Vietnam mission report reflected the third tenet of postwar liberalism; to defend the freeworld from communist expansion. ... First, he "underestimated the expense of leading a two-front war in Vietnam" (Schulman 101). Johnson thought that he could fund the Great Society at home, as well as support the war against communism in Vietnam; later he regretted leaving the "lady he loved" for the war in Vietnam. ... (15) There were two differences between th...

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