Vietnam became a major defiance state that later helped to shape the outcome of the Cold War. ... The Vietnam War became a proxy between the United States, the Soviet Union and communist China. ... Not only did the USA fail to stop South Vietnam going Communist, but the heavy bombing of Vietnam's neighbors, Laos and Cambodia in secret CIA wars, actually helped the Communist forces in those countries to win support. ... The war sparked a series of social movements and criticism of Johnson's involvement in Vietnam. ... Since the United States suffered from 'Vietnam syndrome'...

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"The cold war was the inevitable global conflict between capitalism and communism" Since 1945 to 1991 the world faced a non-violent war know as the Cold War. ... To begin with, The Cold War was a struggle between conflicting universal values. ... To prevent an expansion of Marx system, USA got involved in the Korean and Vietnam wars which show that wherever communism could beat capitalism the Americans would intervene. ... Conflict between the two opposing victors of World War II was inevitable. However, the war could be avoided at some time. ...

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Question What role do you think Canada played as a Middle power during the Cold War and how did this shape our relationship in the Global Community? ... Our role as a "middle power" in the cold war shaped our relationship in the global community. ... We disagreed in going to Vietnam, but maintained friendly with the US as we still made trades back and forth. ... Our soldiers were sent to keep peace while negotiating was happening in areas where war hadn't broken out yet. ... We do have nuclear power, just no weapons, as we side on America for the weapons in case of war. ...

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The entire world was watching as the Cold War went from moments of détente, to hours at the brink of world war three. ... Tensions stayed high in the Olympics, the space race, ICBM's, the Korean and Vietnam wars. ... The real protection from this possible total war was known as MAD. ... The partnership that deteriorated and now is being rebuilt could have turned into a hot' war at anytime, and began a much more destructive world war. The cold war also had terrible effects on North Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and many other nations. ...

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The United States supported their view in the war in many different ways. ... Fleming, a professor of International Relations at Vanderbilt University, which gave his thoughts on why the U.S. went into Vietnam. He discussed that South Vietnam is a very strategic spot and if it were taken over by communism all of Southeast Asia would have been taken over, too. ... The Soviet Union too supported its non capitalist view during the cold war. ... He also added capitalism would find its grave in another world war, if their was one. ...

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Some historians claim that Cold War ended after the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... To prove that, Nixon began gradual withdrawal from Vietnam War - so as not to provoke the USSR. ... Furthermore, practically immediately after the Crisis, the USA's new President - Johnson - declared total involvement in the Vietnam War and even fabricated - as it is now believed - the Tanking Gulf incident, where the Americans claimed that the North Vietnamese fired at their ship. Therefore, the USA's aggression against communism - for North Vietnam declared herself communist - escalated even further an...

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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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China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. China has been Communist since 1949, Cuba since 1961, Laos since 1975, North Korea since 1948, and Vietnam since 1976. ... This was one of the causes of the Cold War. ... Eventually the countries went to war. ... Nobody really knows how the war ended or who won. ...

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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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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... Differences between the former Allies after it was generally uniting them during the war aim, moved to another plane. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war. However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ...

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Nixon became president during one of the most controversial events in American history: Vietnam. ... A whole subculture, the hippy movement, had developed among teens opposed to the war. The first year he was president, Nixon created the Guam doctrine, which allowed him to remove ground troops from South Vietnam, but continue sending aid to the Asian nations fighting communism. ... In 1972 Nixon was forced to send America back into the war when he bombed North Vietnam. ... Virtually paralyzed, North Vietnam retreated; the war ended, but has left an immense scar on this nation and the others i...

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The cold war was a long and tense time in American and European history. ... We were also tested in many ways: the Korean and Vietnam wars, the bloody wars for independence in countries such as Indonesia and Angola, and my current topic, the Cuban missile crisis. Of all the situations during the cold war, none of them ranks as high as the missile crisis, in its intensity and proximity. It's quite honestly the closest we got to an actual war in the cold war, and it tested the lines drawn by the two colliding superpowers of the world at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union. ......

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1) The Cuban Missile Crisis was the Cold War's closest brush with nuclear war. ... In Dec., 1962, Castro released 1,113 captured rebels in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine raised by private donations in the United States. 5) I believe the U.S. got involved in the Vietnam War to keep Communism contained. ... North Vietnam were forcing, Communism, a government structure that not everyone agreed with on to South Vietnam. ...

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War was the topic of nearly all conversations and sex and drugs were on everyone's minds. While boogie fever swept dance floors, young men were sent off to die in a war that they could never win. ... One can be certain though that with her steadfast and determined way of thinking, she probably would have been protesting the Vietnam War from the very start and the right of nuclear power plants to be in operative mode. ... For example, many other wars were breaking out and many others were beginning to cool off. The Yom Kippur War began in 1973 while the Cold War was ceasing between the US,...

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The city became the symbolic crux of the entire war. ... Only 6,000 returned to Germany at the end of the war. ... They underestimated the skill and will of the Russians much like the US did when they entered Vietnam. ... Because they planed for a fast victory the German troops were ill equipped and trained to deal with Russian winter terrain, again much like the US in Vietnam. ... The amounts of Russian tanks and planes being produced during the war increased during the war whereas German production declined. ...

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In my essay I will focus on this dual analysis of the content and form of the major patterns of strategic geometry and their change over time from Cold War to post Cold War. ... the Cold War era The Cold War system of international relations was a geopolitical intermixing of security, ideology and the balance of power, especially military power. ... Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union-China-North Vietnam, Soviet Union-Japan-US, Sino-Soviet-Indian- and Soviet Union-China-North Korea. ... The great post-war exception was the Soviet-US-Japan...

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This was the only good example of how the Soviets would act, and it is why the United States decided to stay with the "Containment" theory for the entirety of the Cold War. ... History including the Korean War, Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs invasion. ... What would have happened if during the first few years of the Cold War the U.S. went with a different type of foreign policy, one that put less emphasis of force and more emphasis on understanding. Perhaps many wars could have been avoided and much money would have been saved in both countries, or perhaps we would all be speaking Russian n...

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A nuclear war could start at any moment. For example if a nation misjudged an enemy movement they could start a nuclear war. ... In spite of terrible wars in the Middle East and Vietnam and several nuclear alarms, he US and the Soviet Union seem to be edging towards security than threat. ... Experts still think that a nuclear war could start by accident. ... If a war starts then there must be peace talks before the weapons can be launched. ...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. ... The war of 1812 was a depiction of English relentless cling to the land that it had lost. ... The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. ... Those at the conference also decided to meet recurrently after the conclusion of the war. ... Conflicts in both Korea and Vietnam have seen both American and British military powers fighting for the common cause of Containment fearing the overall Domino Effect of Communism that wa...

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1920-1980: A Rush From the Past to the Future The 1920's, a period recovering from the first Great War, saw the adjustment of social, cultural and economic forces in the United States. ... The 1980's, a period recovering from the Vietnam War, saw many changes as well with the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of the Iran crisis and new developments in the fight again AIDS. ... Contrary to public opinion, the CIA waged a secret war against the Nicaraguan government, bombing their harbors and destroying ships. ...

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JFK's pragmatic approach in dealing with the USSR led to the outcome of events related to the Cold War in the early 1960's. ... In hindsight Kennedy's caution during the crisis saved the United States from possible nuclear war, but the gamble he took was huge. ... In 1961 the North Vietnamese began developing a supply line through Laos into South Vietnam. ... In fairness to both sides, the Cold War was full of deceptions and misjudgments on both sides. ... The Cold War was essentially a game of "chicken-. ...

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Stalin Essay Stalin's Childhood The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the Russian Empire. He was the third child born to Vissa...

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This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... His writings on the Cultural Revolution are published amidst Western challenges to the Communist nations, such as Vietnam and North Korea, and the breaking down of ties between them, starting with the Hungarian revolt. ...

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