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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In an unjustified war, it means just that. ... By using dualistic thinking all unjustified wars can be avoided. An example of lack of dualistic thinking resulting in an unjustified war can be heard by any Vietnam vet. ... "The president who saved your sons from being brutally slaughtered in the Vietnam jungle." The war tactics used by America in Vietnam were lower than low. ...

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The first US combat troops arrived in Vietnam. By the end of the year, 190,000 American soldiers were in Vietnam to fight the war. My father was also one of these soldiers over in Vietnam. And here we are today in the year 2003 getting ready to go to war with Iraq. ...

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There seemed no purpose to this static war - other than to kill and wait to be killed.8 The tactics in Korea resembled many of those used during the years of Vietnam. Though most of the war was fought from the trenches, similarities in tactics such as the infamous search and destroy missions American troops so regularly participated in were common in Korea as well as in Vietnam. ... Though below zero in the winter, Korea shared similarities in landscape to that of Vietnam. ... Both presidents refused to ask congress for approval to wage war in Vietnam comparing it directly to what America h...

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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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Johnson made his decision to Americanize the war in July. ... Tonight, I renew the offer I made last August-to stop the bombardment of North Vietnam. ... The area in which we are stopping our attacks includes almost 90 percent of North Vietnam's populated areas, or in the food-producing areas of North Vietnam . ... LBJ believed that removing himself from the presidential race would ruin the passage of his domestic programs, help resolve the Vietnam War, and "heal" the wounds now separating the country (Joseph A. ... I believe I did this through the struggles of the Vietnam War. ...

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Nixon decided that he did not want the Vietnam war to become a campaign issue; but he did pledge to end the war if he was elected. ... President Richard Nixon inherited a country at war, aggravation, and violence. His goal was to get all US troops out of Vietnam. ... However, people back in the United States saw this as expansion of the war. ... During the era of the Vietnam war, there was a nation wide student protest. ...

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He faced the major challenge - Vietnam War. ... However, his efforts to negotiate a compromise with North Vietnam were futile. The key challenge was to force North Vietnam to consider giving the South its independence. ... Nixon was determined not to be defined by the war. ... Many universities throughout the country led big demonstrations against the war. ...

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The War Power Resolution passed on 11-7-73 because congress wanted to control the President's ability to make legal war. ... (McCollum 34) The whole debate over the War Powers act is over that has the power, constitutionally, to make war. ... The resolution contradicts itself by not wanting the president to wage war on his own but if he does he has 60 day to play war monger. ... And Despite its weaknesses, since its passing the Presidents have not engaged in war without some congressional involvement. Also by limiting the power of the President, the...

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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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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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Within the past decade we have sent American military personnel to Somalia to protect United Nations" troops conducting a humanitarian operation to relieve the famine resulting from the civil war in that Country. ... Resulting would be dividing American foreign relations into cycles of "relatively pacific feeling," followed by "rising bellicosity and war," followed by "postwar nationalism," and then back to "relatively pacific feeling" (pp.146-147). ... Using generations as their premise, they suggest that one-generation and its particular leaders and decision makers may experience an intens...

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Schlesinger also believes that the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union after World War II, "led to congress surrendering much of its oversight of military and diplomatic matters" (pg. 1). He also believes that congress should be the one making the final call on decisions regarding wars. Schlesinger states that leading to the Korean War was the first major conflict that was conducted with no congressional declaration of war. ... The founders never dreamed that Congress would surrender its exclusive entitlement to declare war. ... Robert Divine states that because of Eisenho...

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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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In 1942 Richard Nixon joined the US Navy where he was a supply officer spending much time in the Southern Pacific during World War II. ... Kennedy on June 6, 1968 and there was the Vietnam War which was now at its peak. ... As Commander in Chief he helped with ending the Vietnam War by turning over responsibilities to the South Vietnamese soldiers thus allowing American troops to return home. ...

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In his first year of presidency it looked like the end of the war was near, but with this announcement the end of the war was not evident. ... How could the President make the decision to continue war when he promised to end it? ... Young students were upset because they were the ones being drafted and the sooner the war ended the less chance they had of seeing war. On Friday, May 1,1970 anti-war rallies began to take place at Kent State University. ... Most of the songs in the sixties and seventies were based on protest of the Vietnam war. ...

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Most would argue unfair taxes are what started the Revolutionary War. ... Before his presidency, the world had seen the triumph of Marxism in countries such as Angola and Nicaragua, with El Salvador seeming to follow them, America had been humiliated by the outcome of the Vietnam War in 1975, during the Jimmy Carter administration, 52 Americans in embassies had been captured, which resulted in the American military having low morale, low pay, outdated equipment, and little to no maintenance on what equipment they did have. ... President Reagan ended the Cold War. ... This promise was put to th...

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The citizens of America have to deal with the pain of saying goodbye to loved ones as they go off to war with the thought in their minds that they might not return. ... The U.S. death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed during the first three years of the Vietnam War. ... As a result of the war and the conflicts with Iraq, the U.S. government's debt is rapidly increasing. ... The citizens of America are being affected greatly by this war. Many people have lost loved ones due to the war. ...

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"Once a man has been in politics, once that's been in his life, he will always return if the people want him." (Richard M. Nixon) Richard Nixon's the thirty seventh president of United States (1969-1974), was born in Yorba-Linda, CA in 1913. Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and D...

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During this time the U.S. was involved in the Vietnam War. In America at the time there were many Anti-war protests and formations of groups like the New Left. ... Government because they would not back out of Vietnam. ...

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Who was the first African-American female to be elected to Congress? Not many people know who this amazing woman is. The first African-American female legislator was Shirley Chisholm. Shirley received a college education despite the racism. She also created a club for her fellow classmates who were ...

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-1965) Stevenson was born in Los Angeles, California on February 5, 1900. His family background in politics made it impossible for Adlai to avoid it. His grandfather, the first Adlai E. Stevenson, had served as vice president during Grover Cleveland's second term. His ...

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Military West Point, and Command and General Staff War College. ... He really liked to lead people; he was a general in World War Two. ... He also flew a fighter jet in the Korean and Vietnam War. ... He served in an office to the Assistant Secretary of War. ... In World War Two, Dwight served as a Five Star General. ...

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The media informed the nation of Richard Nixon's less then honorable means of governing and the media brought the Vietnam war to our living rooms every evening. ... Bush had been a popular president especially when it came to his role in the Persian Gulf War. ...

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The league was based on a new concept: collective security against the "criminal" threat of war. ... In 1918, as one of his Fourteen Points summarizing Allied aims in World War I, United States president Woodrow Wilson presented a plan for a general association of nations. ... The covenant was formulated as part of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, in 1919. ... Cold War: The cold war is the post-1945 struggle between the United States and its allies and the group of nations led by the Soviet Union. ... The two countries fought against Germany during World War II, but this a...

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