The expansion of America had also pleased many people be, especially African Americans. ... The Americans who are against this relive the event of the American Revolution. ... In essence, they argue that colonization would intrude upon the concept of democracy and their republic by holding Filipinos as subjects (Doc 6). Finally, if the U.S. would decide to become an imperialistic nation, it would affect the American society negatively. According to Jane Addams, there were murders and an upward surge in violence by Americans. ...

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North Vietnam wanted to have Communism for a government under the influence of Ho Chi Minh, and the South wanted to have democracy, under the influence of the French rule. Richard Nixon, the president of America at that time, quoted "We will fight any country that is fighting for Democracy." ... The First Problems The Americans came up to a dross road. ... With this, they got into bikes and moved around much more efficiently than the Americans. ... Trouble Inside America Johnson, the president at that time, couldn't face that thought of being the first American president to lose a war, ...

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After World War II many Third World countries in Latin America seemed to have some interest in the political system of the Soviets. ... The United States was aware of this happening, and that is when it became more involved in Latin America. ... Once again the communist "virus- created by the Soviets was spreading throughout Latin America. ... Another nation in Latin America that was attacked by communist guerrilla forces was El Salvador, located in between of Guatemala and Honduras in Central America. ... To ensure democracy in Latin America the U.S. has given large amounts of money to f...

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America wanted to spread democracy and capitalism while finding places to trade with in the open market. ... The American view of the Soviet Union was well known. ... Communist's scorned democracy, violated human rights, pursued military aggression, and created closed state economies that barely traded with capitalist countries. Americans compared communism to a contagious disease. ... One can more easily contain communism when these Western European capitalist democracies are doing well. ...

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The Cold war era was a time of fear and the first time the Americans felt threatened by a country that matched our abilities and power. America believed that right under their very nose conspiracies by communist were taking place, which is the basis for the movie "The Manchurian Candidate". ... In 1950 McCarthy made a speech accusing 205 government workers for being apart of the American communist party. ... These items are placed in the movie as a nifty way of showing good versus evil and democracy over communism. ...

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Contrary to the popular belief of the average American, Communism is not "evil". ... The Children of America were not taught that the Soviets were "evil", they were simply not told anything about Communism. ... Democracy, the greatest psychological war the human race has ever faced (almost bringing the species to extinction), and it gets less than 50 pages in a 900 page American History book. ... Had American Democracy been under the same strains I highly doubt we would be in such a system. ... Also, let's not forget the flaws of Democracy (and the Republics such as the U.S.). ...

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It deals with an American soldier whose girlfriend is stuck in the eastern side of Berlin. ... The American people were petrified with the threat of Nuclear War. ... The benefit of a democracy is freedom. Living in a democracy you have certain liberties that are prohibited in a communist country. ... Then you have to deal with the disadvantages of a democracy. ...

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By the end of the war 1.3 million South Koreans, 1 million Chinese, 500,000 Northern Korean's, 54,000 Americans were dead (Rees 4). ... That battle ended in 4,280 Americans dead. ... America did however; claim this to be their first defeat in a major battle (Berkeley. 1 edu.). ... South Korea is now a stable democracy with a "vibrant" economy. ...

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There were more than 16,000 U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam, and more than 100 or more Americans had been killed by the John F. ... Every American President called the enemy in Vietnam-the Vietminh. 1960's successor, the National Liberation Front (NLF) : and the government of north Vietnam which was led by Ho Chi Minh as agentsof global Communism. Most Americans called communism the "antithesis of all they held dear." Communists accused democracy of Violating human rights, created close state economics that barely traded with capitalists countries and pursued military aggression...

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The Moment the War Comes Home After landing troops on the battlefield of South Vietnam with huge amounts of war expenses, Washington D.C. incessantly acclaimed for a liberal democracy in this small Asian country. ... They saw in their eyes US soldiers burning houses, killing innocent people, kids being scalded by napalm bombs, the US embassy being attacked at the center of Saigon, US soldiers dragging the bodies of comrades They were wondering how those violent acts could be allowed to happen, what US soldiers had been sacrificing for and how Americans would bring democracy to Vietnam. ... ...

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Latin America After world War II until the 1980's, many Latin American leaders installed reforms to deal with new demanding issues in their country. ... The concentration of aid to Europe was a immense concern to the countries of Latin America. Latin America countries wanted the U.S. to stress economic development in the post war era. ... This was due to the lack of attention, financially and politically the U.S. displayed to Latin America. ... In my understanding of the cold war situation the U.S. used all means possible to defend democracy, and had they not taken the steps that they h...

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He says that in order for other countries to believe that democracy is more productive the United States must fix several large issues such as poverty, militarism, and racism. ... Potter quotes, "The incredible war in Vietnam has provided the razor, the terrifying sharp cutting edge that has finally severed the last vestiges of about illusion that morality and democracy are the guiding principles of American foreign policy," (845). ... Potter raises the important question about "what the war has done for freedom in America?" ... Paul Potter discusses the American society by saying that many...

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Democracy had been spreading throughout the world for the preceding two decades, but with a very important difference. ... Preuss notes that when the constitutional state gained favor in North America, it was founded on the principle of the unitary state; it was not designed to address the lack of national identity which is found throughout Europe - and which is counter to the concept of the constitutional state (48). ... According to theories of modernization, the higher the levels of socioeconomic achievement, the greater the pressure for open competition and, ultimately, dem...

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There is Oceania, which encompasses the Americas and Great Britain, Eurasia, which is Europe and the Near East, and Eastasia, which is the rest of Asia and Australia. ... The North America has free trade policies, as does the European union. These make North America and Europe the most powerful economic centres on Earth. ... It is all very well putting safety nets in place in stable democracies such as we have in the Western world, but how can we let so much economic power be given to the Far Eastern countries, such as Indonesia, which have very unstable governmental systems?...

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Television, newspapers, and the radio all play a major role in a lot of Americans lives. ... Abbie Hoffman was arguably one of the most well known "American Rebels". ... These demonstrations were actually part of a communist plan to destroy the HUAC and weaken the American Democracy. ... America was fighting a war over in Vietnam during the 70's against communism. Over here in America was another battle. ...

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The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their intentions. ... Wilson had initially kept the United States neutral in the Great War but in 1917 he proclaimed, that the "world must be kept safe for democracy." Wilson set his fourteen points out which secured open markets, individual democracy, self-determination, individual freedom and national wealth. ... American's believed strongly in democracy and were deeply hostile to communism. ... America fully agreed with the "Iron Curtain" speech." ...

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The Cold War A war that has created controversy amongst two of the greatest world leaders, United States of America and The Soviet Union, is known as The Cold War. ... America's policy was one that contained the spread of communism in Eastern Europe. ... Russia was trying to spread communism, abolish democracies, and spread poverty. Thus creating the Berlin Blockade, which forced America to create the Berlin Airlift. ... The Americans then questioned their own security. ...

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Due to the unique beliefs and ideals democracy has instilled in Americans, they feel obligated to act as leaders of the world and help other countries in need. The foreign policies of President Eisenhower led to the involvement of the Americans in the Vietnam War, but to a limited extent. ... These foreign policies led to an effective involvement in the Vietnam War from an American perspective. The policies implemented would facilitate the goal of containing communism, and also prevent the over-exertion of armed forces which would demonstrate a weak American force. ... The French did not f...

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Democracy Contributed to the Collapse of S.C.,19).This type of pressures,violances and terror on people damaged the systems own foundation and it 'collapsed on its own'. Problems as described above made a basement for West to accelarete the collapse of Soviet Union.To answer the armanent of U.S.A,Soviet Union made big expendurties for buying and researching weapons.U.S.A politicans should see the bad economic conditions of S.U. and they improved the expendurties then S.U tried to follow this race but they could only follow U.S.A to own bankruptcy.West incite The ...

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The media plays a major role in our government because they show the American public what's going on in Washington. ... I believe the wealthiest 1% of America has the largest influence on the government. ... Even with myriad influences I still believe our government can be considered a democracy. Every American over 18 has the right to choose and influence his government. ...

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The Vietnam Revolution could apply be summarized as a war between communism and democracy. ... More than 6,00 Americans had been killed in that year alone, and 30,000 had been wounded" (Bowman 192). Citizens back home in America were beginning to question way the U.S. was fighting this war. ... The American government controlled South Vietnam, and dictated what its governments steps should be. ... On top of this, American Citizens wanted their troops out of the war. ...

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The main problem is American power. ... In July of the year 2000 Dr.Hans Bethe and fifty of his colleagues from the Federation of American Scientists drafted a letter to President Clinton, urging him not to deploy a missile defense system. ... Lastly, the system gives the United States of America too much world dominance and power. ... The U.S was created to be the anti-thesis of an imperialistic government, but when the U.S fought in the Spanish-American war, instead for freeing Cuba from Spain, they took it over as well as Guam and the Philippians. ... If the system is set up and the U.S sta...

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The four allies decided to rebuild Germany to a Democracy. When World War II ended a post war Europe was divided between Western Democracies and Soviet army occupied nations of Eastern Europe. ... In 1947 the British and American zones were united. ...

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The cold war was a long and tense time in American and European history. ... Afterward, Castro assured the Cuban people that he would stop relying on the American economy. Castro then began to seize American investings and landholdings in his country, and America retaliated by imposing a trade embargo (942). ... Meanwhile, in America, fear over the "Red Menace" continued, with the McCarthy scare just out of the way. And while Castro was at first regarded as a "progressive leader favorably disposed to democracy," as Palmer so ironically puts it (955), people soon learned, with Cuba's incr...

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The Korean War A cry rang out, June 24, 1950, from a small country half way around the world and America listened. ... For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea. ... Every member supported American arms for the first time, and possibly only time in its short history. ... In 1995, sixty-thousand Korean War veterans gathered in Washington D.C. to watch President Clinton dedicate this memorial that honors - pride, valor, heroic sacrifice on behalf of freedom and democracy - are ideals largely unfamiliar to our generation. ... (De...

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