The Vietnam War was a prolonged conflict, extending from 1954 to 1975, between the communist government of North Vietnam and the non-communist government of the South. ... In Australia, public opinion on the war in Vietnam moved through several stages throughout its involvement in the war. ... The Vietnam War was the longest war Australia was ever involved in. ... The violence of the Vietnam War began to spill onto Australian streets with television news and photos of the conflict fuelling the growth of opposition to the war. ... Nearly 40 years on, the after-effects of the Vietnam War still l...

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There are a number of differences between the Korean and Vietnam wars. ... Both of these wars were expensive, the Korean War cost the US $67 billion and Vietnam cost $140 billion . ... The Vietnam War commenced very differently from Korea, the Korean War originated internally when North attacked South, but Vietnam was started externally by the United States. ... On 30th April 1975, South Vietnam fell to the communists, and America lost the war against communism. ... Historian, Neil Sheenan believes that Vietnam will have been a war in vain only if we fail to draw wisdom from it. . ...

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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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An overly aggressive Soviet Russia influencing lower European countries even spanning as far as China, Korea, Africa, and even Vietnam which was one of the main reasons for the later Vietnam war. ... After the war, the countryside was battered and broken looking for a reliable government to run them, and economic aid to help the post-war rebuild; which the soviet union was quick to provide as many countries such as Yugoslovakia, Romania, Lithuania, and Bulgaria had already seceded to communistic ideals. ... However, after the financially taxing World War II, Britain was unable to continue such...

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Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. ... Vietnam supports the theory of democratic peace. Vietnam is not a democratic nation and because of it is often involved in some form of conflict. 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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-Walter Cronkite The origins of the Cold War have been debated since 1945 when, at the end of World War II, the allied countries of Great Britain, The United States, and The Soviet Union had to decide how to map out the fate of Europe. ... 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 e...

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The Korean War 1950-1953 was the first proxy conflict of the Cold War costing 5 million lives, 54,000 of which were American soldiers, yet it has often been described as America's, "forgotten war." Thus, eluding to the idea that it was not as significant to world affairs or security as other conflicts during the Cold War such as in Vietnam. ... " This essay shall evaluate how significant the American government perceived the Korean War to be to global security by analysing key documents from the early war period such as daily summaries in addition to key speeches and NSC 68 and 48/2...

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In doing this he was advancing Vietnam's independence. ... Many historians such as David Kaiser (1998) proposed that Ho turned to communism subsequent to America's refusal to help him end French domination in Vietnam. After all, all of the other Nationalist parties in Vietnam prior to 1920 did not achieve their goal of overthrowing the French. ... Ho Chi Minh tried to create a socialist revolution in Vietnam aimed at the rising of the whole nation in order to overthrow the ruling French and become independent. ... William Duiker, Minh's biographer, a man who served in Saigon...

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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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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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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 from the north. Since these wars communism has died out as a threat to the region. ... Another thing was that during the Vietnam War, a lot of it was televised back to Australian homes and the public saw the suffering of the Vietnamese and realised that they were not al...

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Communism have existed in many countries of the world such as Italy, East Germany, France, the Union Soviet, China, Cuba, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, North Korea, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam. ... Albanians did a hard and long war to win their independence, dealing with strong countries such as Italy and Germany, and when finally they archived this goal, a new, harder stage was going to be written through the pages of Albania's history: the Communism. ... After a bloody civil war, the nationalists were defeated, ...

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First of all, in terms of scale May 68 was the largest mass movement in France history, the French workers' movement, and the only general insurrection the overdeveloped world has known since World War II(Ross 4) There has never been a strike as powerful as May 68 that can be compared. ... It is the occurrence of May 68 is part of wave of the world-wide phenomenon which in part revolved around the issue of US involvement in Vietnam, May 68 is more than just another in a serious of student revolt in 1968 left. ... The "political awakening occasioned by the Algerian war" fomented "the birth...

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Was occupied by Mongolia and suffered from Japanese expansion before World War the Second. ... In order to decrease the level of import government pay attention to the sea territories of 3 million square kilometers, on which also Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand are pretending. ...

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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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