When people talk about the Vietnam war, more often than not, they are referring to the war between the U.S.A. and the North Vietnamese Forces, led by Ho Chi Minh. ... After the war, the Vietminh controlled north Vietnam while an unpopular government setup by the French with it's capital in Saigon controlled the South. ... The Australian Government setup a propaganda campaign that the Vietnam war was a simple struggle between freedom and communism, and that free nations had to stop communism from spreading around the world. But this was not the first time the Australian Army had been invol...

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Platoon, is an American opinion of what took place during the Vietnam War, hence, why the American soldiers were depicted as courageous warriors. ... But because this was an American representation of the Vietnam War, the US soldiers were exposed in a more positive light. ... With this being the first scene the narrator (Charlie Sheen) should have begun by introducing the Vietnam War and how the feud between communism and capitalism begun with the "independence" of Vietnam. ... Over all, this movie described an American's view of what took place throughout the Vietnam War. 6. ... The g...

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Air Force base in South Vietnam. ... To most before ground involvement the war had been a thing in the news, but now it became a heart felt issue. ... When Nixon attempts to "Vietnamize" the war, he gains strong support. ... Later Fords efforts to bring more weapons to Vietnam proved to be fatal. ... Confidence in America was lost by many key economic and political allies causing in s sense, salt to be poured on the already deep wound left by the war in Vietnam. ...

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The war was also a great hindrance on America's economic stature. 13 percent of all government spending by 1968 was on Vietnam. ... If they were not going to retreat from Vietnam they would most certainly lose. ... The population towards the end of the sixties started to become pacifists or at least disagreed with the Vietnam War. ... It could mean the end to the aid given by the USSR and China to Vietnam. ... This was not to mean the cold war was over, the nuclear arms race with the USSR continued, but it did mean that the Vietnam War was drawing to an end. ...

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Background information: Before The War The Vietnam War, well known and brought up a lot in today's world as a comparison to the current Iraq war. This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. ... They thought this because the Northern Vietnam was backed by China and Russia. ... Being that it was the Vietcong's homeland, they were in the better position to win this war. ... That was a bad time for Richard Nixon, having to control the Vietnam War that Johnson had started. ...

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The Vietnam War was also another event that shaped the way Americans viewed war and how they viewed the rest of the world. ... America was fighting a war over in Vietnam during the 70's against communism. ... Many anti-war demonstrations were being held everywhere in the United States. ... Life magazine in 1967 ran a twelve-page feature with pictures of the destruction that American bombing was causing in Vietnam. ... From the Vietnam War being the first televised war, to the United States spy plane being *censored* down over China, the media is a big influence on how we view the worl...

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Although our economy is struggling slightly, we are at war and war seems like a logical way to help the economy. The country presents its citizens with so many distractions to keep our minds off of the war and the thousands that will die because of it. ... The Vietnam War was in full throttle and these people are trying to write music with "deep messages", experimenting with mind expanding drugs and basically just doing nothing to help the people of the country. ... I stumbled across a Janis Joplin CD and it left wondering; why in a time of war, did these people choose to use their social popu...

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Others felt that the war in Vietnam was unjust. ... This is the first war that America did not win and many felt ashamed of what we did to the people of Vietnam. ... The government lied to the American people about Vietnam. ... Vietnam has made the public question our leaders. ... Another consequence of Vietnam is the draft. ...

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Huge events such as civil rights and The Vietnam War affected people dramatically. ... In the middle of the decade, America became vastly a country of turmoil as the country split between pro-war and anti-war activists. The Vietnam War was a very controversial war, and when the draft was accelerated and anti-war sentiment grew, college students organized anti-war protests. ... College students especially were fed up with the war because it was the first major war they had lived through. ... The Vietnam War was the first war in our nations history that was widely protested and every war sin...

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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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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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He joined the army, was sent to Vietnam war, awarded the congressional medal awarded by president Nixon, and from spending time in a hospital from an injury, he picked up ping-pong. ... For example the Vietnam war was presented in the movie and the year was correct, 1963. ... When the war was taking place, you could almost feel the habitat of Vietnam it was so realistic. It was like it was actually taken from the war. ... The film showed the Vietnam war, and life at the time, so it made the viewer more aware of history. ...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? ... Many historians say that slavery was the main issue of the Civil War. Although some historians think the war was the result of political screw-ups and that the issue of slavery did not cause the war. ... "Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Almost as many as the combined dead of all other wars from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War (Boritt 634)". ...

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It was a high price they had paid in exchange for the precious freedom they had been denied in their native country of Vietnam. ... He tried the hardest to overcome obstacles to get a job to survive, and especially to be financially qualified to sponsor his wife and another daughter still remaining in Vietnam after he left. Before the war, grandpa was a professor who taught at a university. ... Originally, my father, who was the oldest in the family, had already left Vietnam several years before my grandpa and aunt departed. ... He also mentioned that his choice of leaving Vietnam was the ...

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During the 1960's, America was in the middle of a war against Vietnam. The military used tactics such as chemical and guerilla warfare to assault people in Vietnam. ... Lennon wrote the song in order to show his concern of the leftist motives used in Vietnam. ... Although many citizens went to Vietnam due to the draft and were unable to excuse themselves from the war, the hippies still did not see this as an excuse. ... John Lennon and The Beatles sang about how they did not agree with certain tactics being used during the Vietnam War, which inspired protests at many college campuses. ...

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Many of the wars start off as good wars such as World War II in which the Allies tried to stop Hitler from destroying the Jewish population of Europe. ... With the Civil War in the United States, everyone said the war was about states" rights when the deeper meaning of the war was mostly about the slavery of African -Americans. No war, of course, is a good war but some have to be fought, such as W.W.II and the Civil War, because there is always a hidden meaning for which people need to step in and intervene. The Civil War had to be the worst war that anyone could have fought. ... D...

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Three are the same that the war is bad. The first showing that no one knew why the war was going on not even the soldiers. ... To put the civil rights and the Vietnam war together is two very import things that tie into each other. ... The mane importance of the Vietnam war was this is the only war we lost completely. In Korea we compromised but in Vietnam we fought and lost and there was a great US casualty. ...

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America is tight with isreal, thats why the whole iraq deal happened, why desert storm was such a huge success was because iraq wasn't able to get isreal involved you see because once it hit isreal, isreal would come back that would provoke all the other Arab nations to jump in so saddam now is basically saying yeah america hit me and ill hit Israel and you'll see what will happen.everyone says we go over there for oil, no in 1991 when the war first started schartzcof *dont know how to spell his name but was the general in charge of desert storm* any way right before it started ame...

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The Homeless Homelessness is a very large problem that America has come to face with. Millions of people, including children, families, babies, veterans, and the elderly live day by day without food, water, a roof over their head, or love. People that are mentally ill also have to tough it ou...

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In the case of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism, America is going at it alone. ... Yet this democratic system cannot happen through a war when so many object it. ... According to the past, America has not too often backed down at an opportunity for war. ... The fight against communism, Vietnam namely. ... The War on Terrorism cannot be fought alone. ...

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This was first proved in the Vietnam War, when Americans woke each morning and watched horrific images of war being shown on channels such as CNN. As President Nixon quickly found out, this globalisation turned public opinion so much against the war that the Americans had no choice but to pull out of Vietnam. ... Iraq's consequent invasion of Kuwait in 1990 was the reason for the Gulf War, a war that he thought the West would ignore but one that resulted in his forces being driven from Kuwait by an American-led coalition. ... America also removed Iraq from its" list of "terrorist-spons...

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Oil has not only fueled our wars- the two World Wars, Korea and Vietnam - but is equally the sinew of our might in peacetime: it takes oil to be a superpower. ... Nowadays nations without a secure access to oil go to war for it - the Germans and the Japanese launched attacks on Russia and the United States in the second World War to get their hands on oil. ...

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She attacked and finally won; world war (ii). ... Roosevelt, America did not want to participate in the war. ... This included China, Korea, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. ... This marked the end of the war in Europe. ... The war claimed more than 300000 lives. ...

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Young men and women "tied the knot" in record numbers at World War II's end, and they began immediately to produce an immense amount of babies. ... Young adulthood saw massive changes in attitudes to many social issues, including opposition to the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, mass political action for causes including war opposition but extending to civil rights and feminism amongst others, and radical upheavals in popular culture. ... After World War II, most of America's moderate migrants fled from the cities to the new suburbs of America. ... The years following World Wa...

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grendel works in nihilism United We Stand in Optimism For so many years, tragedies and other major events have torn America. These events play the role of the divider and antagonist of America's people. Americans have the ability to fight against these atrocities and always unify themselves. W...

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