Democratic nations tend to want to bring an end to wars and find a resolution, while totalitarian nations usually take conflicts to the point of beginning a war, and ending in numerous casualties. ... Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. ... Vietnam supports the theory of democratic peace. ... During the Vietnam War one of the factors of the theory of democratic peace became prevalent. ... While the Vietnam War was taking place, there were several protests going on in the United States. ...

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Initial interpretations of the foundation of the Cold War, known as Orthodoxy, became the norm for historians between the 1940's and the beginning the 1960's. ... As would be expected, the period during the 1960's and 1970's, the debate over the origins of the Cold War between traditionalists and revisionists was extremely argumentative and scathing: In the 1960's, debates generated by the cold war and the war in Vietnam brought the so-called cold war revisionist interpretation. ... After Vietnam had ended and time moved further on, the caustic nature of the debate be...

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Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. ... 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. ... The reconvening of Congress to deal with an undeclared war was merely be the beginning of the battle. ... Senators Church of Idaho and Case of New Jersey introduced a bill forbidding the use of any funds whatsoever to finance the re-involvement of US military forces in hostilities in or over Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia without pr...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... And the beginning of the clash of interests of the USSR and the USA in various parts of the globe, making the prospects of cooperation ghostly superpowers and actually marked the beginning of an era of confrontation. ... During World War II for the US economy were truly "golden": with the beginning of military operations from Europe to America poured a huge flow of capital greatly stimulated its economic growth. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of ...

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The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. Nevertheless, although the vast majority of the historical facts are now known and have been studied carefully, it is still hard to ...

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The five conflicts that show the most common action of the real reason why we invaded are: World War Two, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam, and Operation Iraq. ... The outcome of the Cold War was that Korea and Vietnam both gave into Communism, and wars were started because of this converting. ... The ideals of Communism spread to two third-world countries we both recognized as a threat, Korea and Vietnam. ... When the Cold War with Russia was going on we decided to not invade them because of the loss of lives due to ever growing capacity of both powers nuclear arsenal, but our President deci...

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To the end, King believed that the war that then continued with full vigor in Vietnam did in viable the solution of the local problems of the human relations. ... For which refers to the War of the Vietnam, many felt that their problems lost priority and that the leverage black to should be concentrated in the fight of the racial injustice inside United States. However, at the beginning of 1967, King had associated the leaders of the movement against the war, independently of its color. The subsequent worry of King by Vietnam and their determination in directing a march of the town upon...

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From this point onwards, things such as the war, foreign affairs (such as the period of communism), immigration and trade have changed the policies and attitudes of the Australian people, which were in place from federation (1901) to the beginning of the war. ... This was shown to be happening when at first China and the North Korea and then Vietnam became communist. ... While these are good examples the most obvious use of the policy was the Vietnam War in the late 1960's to 1970's in which forces from USA and Australia moved into South Vietnam to stop the spread of communism fro...

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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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At the beginning of this epic Grendle makes the first strike and attacks helpless civilians, much like what the United States did during their bombing raids of Arabic nations such as Iraq and Afghanistan and even during the Vietnam war an example of that would be the massacre at May Lai. ...

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Sexuality in the Military Homosexuals have been excluded from our society since our country's beginning, giving them unequal rights. ... The Homosexual struggle with our Nation's Armed Forces has been acquiring damage and swift blows for a long time now, and finally they are beginning to fight back. With the public knowledge of initiation rights into many elite groups of the military, the public is beginning to realize how exclusive the military can be. ... The Vietnam War set the stage for society becoming more involved in how the military was run. ... The ending of the Cold War an...

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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 ground troops into Vietnam. ... His assassination by British intelligence marked the beginning of the end...

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The EU has decided on a common currency, the Euro, which became available at the beginning of 1999. ... One example is World War II, which started in the middle of Europe- -considered then the most civilized part of the world- because of Germany's belief in its national superiority. ... By the beginning 20th century with the effects of industrialization and common usage of communication devices and transportation becoming faster and more comfortable economy started to play the most important role in a state's political policies. ... Equally Asia has been struck by fundamental changes...

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Religion in America From the very beginning, people from across mountains, valleys, and oceans came to America for more liberties and independence than they had had where they originally came from. ... Any argument on ethics or morality always seemed to come back to its religious foundation; for example, the cases of Charles Finney social reforms or Abraham Lincoln's personal conflict during the Civil War. In the midst of the Civil War and, later on, the Scopes Trial, people realize that even amongst the people of the same religion, they all have different opinions despite reading the sam...

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The end of World War II brought about new flows of immigrants coming from the New Commonwealth (India, a few African countries, the West Indies) and from Pakistan. The Commonwealth had taken part in the war and soldiers had fought under the Union Jack with the British troops, and the UK seemed all the more welcoming in its role of mother country as there was a high rate of unemployment in the Commonwealth countries. From the very beginning, just after the war, ethnic minorities first came from the Caribbean and then from the Indian sub-continent, until about 1960. ... The main ethnic minority...

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Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendous technological advances as well as, drastic social changes throughout the world and especially within the United States. ... In just viewing one of these great social changes occurring within the United States at this time, the sexual revolution, which effectively broke down the pre-existing gender roles, sex laws, and the sexual morality of mainstream American society, one may see that this change, though beginning slowly eventually became so great and so widespread that it not only affected American culture, but, also, the legal instit...

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