Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... President Eisenhower had been sending aid to South Vietnam and helped them create the Army Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. The Vietnam conflict only became a larger issue when a civil war broke out in Laos, We needed to find out how serious this problem was so we sent vice president Johnson to Vietnam to assess the issue. ...

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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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From the US viewpoint, it was thought that the War in Vietnam would be over and done with rather quickly. ... Rejection and exploitation of the Vietnam Veteran by the US caused the veterans to fight a different war, PTSD when they returned home. ... Many friendships were made during the Vietnam War and many sacrifices were made for friends, sometimes even the greatest sacrifice, death was made. ... One important fact about the Vietnam War was that it was America's first true integrated war. ... Even though over 58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War there were approximately 600,000 ...

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The Vietnam Revolution could apply be summarized as a war between communism and democracy. ... This war would be the Vietnam Revolution. ... Plans for a full scale war were now being made by the Allied forces defending South Vietnam. ... After the Vietnam War, this would be the last time in which a president would receive such personal ability to attack in a war in whatever form that president desired. ... Civilian critics of the war argued that the government of South Vietnam lacked political legitimacy, and that support for the war was immoral" (Edwards 264). ...

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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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Beyond the Truong Son lie Vietnam's immediate neighbors, Laos and Cambodia. ... For one thousand years, Vietnam was part of China. ... Over the next several hundred years, rivalry with the Champa led to an almost constant state of war between the two countries. ... THE PEOPLES OF VIETNAM 8. ... Until the last years of the Vietnam War, more than eighty percent of the Vietnamese people lived on the land. ...

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Vietnam The Vietnam War was a war fought between 1964 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos, and in bombing runs over North Vietnam. ... Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a communist-led South Vietnamese guerrilla movement. ... Vietnam released figures in 1995 that a total of one million Vietnamese combatants and four million civilians were killed in the war. ... Australia lost almost 500 of the 47,000 troops they had deployed to Viet...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. ... In the sixties the "Cold War" was heating up. ... Many feel that because of Kenn...

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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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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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Nixon campaigned with telling the public that he would end the Vietnam War. Nixon blamed President Johnson's actions of adding troops and criticized his decisions of escalating the war in Vietnam. ... Lots of platoons had parties in their bunkers and refused to fight. 3 Nixon became aware of the soldier's issues in Vietnam and looked for new ways to try to make peace and end the war with the North Vietnamese forces. ... The ARVN strategy at this time in the war was every man for himself. ... The public reacted with lots of anti-war demonstrations. ...

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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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"I"d have to say the Vietnam War definitely had a big impact on society. ... One example was the Tetan offensive of 1968 in Vietnam. ... "The 60's is the Vietnam War, and being in the army, I went to helicopters that didn't have anything on them to ones which have guns and can shoot missiles. With everything focused on Vietnam there were new tactics and advancements; we even copied the French a little bit by using H-21 helicopters, which are kind of like banana shaped helicopters. It would just have to be the Vietnam war that had to have the most impact on me." 10. ...

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In the 60's and 70's the Generals in Vietnam insisted war was the answer, whereas others insisted love was the answer. ... Over 180 songs were written in reaction to the Vietnam war alone. ... The civil rights movement and the escalating war were two major catalysts for social and musical protest. ... Next stop is Vietnam. ... John Lennon was hoping his celebrity status combined with a number of protests against the war would have an influence on how people proceeded with the war efforts. ...

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At the end of the Second World War, many political and international changes came about. ... As a result, the Cold War became a topic of much controversy and fear. ... The Vietnam War was a much-protested military move, producing the hippie movement and other cultural revolts. ... He worked here throughout the duration of the war. ... He became the most influential designer in the post-war scene. ...

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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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After the WWI formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. ... Nevertheless, the conscientious objectors were targeted in the Red Scare after the war. ... This split occurred when Europe entered the war. ... However, some of the more prominent American Socialists, strongly supported the war. ... After the war formally ended in 1918, all the groups which opposed the war came under fire. ...

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Although SEALs did not become famous until the Vietnam War, two teams were commissioned in 1962 by President Kennedy: SEAL Team One in the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy, and SEAL Team Two in the Atlantic Fleet (Simmons 1). ... In Vietnam, the SEALs lost 43 men killed in action. ... Since this was all happening during the Persian Gulf War, a Navy SEAL team on the U.S.S. ... During the last three weeks of Phase 1, students are taught the basics of what UDTs did during World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. ... In a war such as Vietnam, one thing the SEALs would do was booby tra...

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Richard Milhouse Nixon had it within his grasp to be the greatest post-World War II president, he was extremely intelligent, had a driving ambition, and was a political consummate. ... Francis' father, Richard's Grandfather, Samuel Brady Nixon, was only fifteen when his father, George, died in the Civil War. ... Nixon exploited the fact that the Cold War rivalry between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. was just beginning and that anti-communist sentiment was high. ...

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Abstract Ravaged by war, violently pushed out of their home country, separated from their extended family and friends, and evacuated to a foreign country where they have no commonality, Vietnamese refugees faced the worst after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. ... The fall of South Vietnam was such a haunting experience to Vietnamese refugees who had to flee their fallen homeland. ... Indeed, the end of the Vietnam War sparked the beginning of Little Saigons, with the great effort and contribution of the first wave refugees. ... In an interview with my grandfather, Binh Le, a marine in Viet...

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When looking back at JFK's presidency people see, the man who saved the world from nuclear war in the Cuban missile crisis, the lost leader who would of saved the agony of Vietnam. Although these view points can be challenged for example although he may have saved the world from nuclear war he also put the American people in that position, with the invasion of Cuba by Kennedy, and it was only on the understanding that Nuclear bombs lay by the Americans in Turkey be removed that Cuba would remove theirs, the American people at the time were unaware of this information and saw Kennedy as th...

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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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This wouldn't normally mean a lot but during this time there was a lot of fear of a World War III because of the Cold War in Russia. ... The biggest issue though during Nixon's presidency was the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War at the time was splitting the country, as well as splitting American families- physically, mentally, and emotionally. On October 15th, 1969, a quarter of a million demonstrators marched in Washington to protest the war. ... But it was not the war on cancer that would earn him a permanent place in history. ...

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After the Second World War, the only viable economy left in the world was the American economy. ... Under his British influenced successor Truman, an alternative 'Cold War' path was taken. The Cold War strategy was used to keep wars going, as in Korea and Vietnam, in order to keep the financial oligarchy dominated munitions makers profitable, and to ensure the recolonization of the Third World, by preventing Roosevelt's idea of large-scale economic development via collaboration between the US, Russia and China, from being implemented. ... Kennedy refused to introduce US groun...

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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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