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. ... The colours of political maps changed as these emerging nations either retained or repudiated old allegiances and declared new ones, such as to the World Communist Movement. ... In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. ... French public opinion had long turned against the war and "sale guerre" ("dirty war") was on everyone's lips. ... Diem had earnt a reputation for hones...

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The film uses beautiful cinematography along with superb sound mixing, soundtracks, and a huge budget to recreate the Vietnam War as closely as possible. ... Coppola created this film with "ambitious effort to show Vietnam as America's Heart of Darkness, with Joseph Conrad's story providing the narrative skeleton" "(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 1-1) and many themes, meanings, and entire scenes from the movie do in fact come directly from Conrad's book. ... As his technical skills such as his lo-key lighting will forever remain a marvel in the world of cinematography. ... ...

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 The Life and Death of Détente: Nixon, Carter, and Reagan, 1968-1988 "If we can learn to live together on these issues and work together and negotiate on these we may change the world. ... By the 1970's, the destructive capabilities of the world's two superpowers along with an emerging third power in the nation of China, had combined to make the world a dangerously unstable place. ... "Kissinger believed that international stability was the best way to preserve American power and one way to assure that was to allow China to enter into a bala...

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The Integration of Air Mobility During the Vietnam War, leaders observed the integration of air mobility assets as a force multiplier. ... In today's world, after the Cold War, small but violent conflicts can arise almost anywhere, and for rapid intervention forces, the helicopters are an important factor. ... On 1 July 1965, the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) was inactivated and reflagged as the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), the unit rapidly deployed to the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). ... These units' aircraft were the sustaining force of the Army's first air transport ...

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This was the year in which World War 2 began in the region, during the period of Japanese expansion. ... World War 2 did not change Australian attitudes so much as it reinforced them. For a long time there was a fear among the Australian people of Asian invasion, firstly from the Chinese when they flocked to Australia during the gold rush, and then from the Japanese after World War 1, nicknamed the "Yellow Peril". ... After World War 2 there were also changes in policies and attitudes concerning foreign affairs. ... The reason the USA was against communism was because it was during the Cold Wa...

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Liberals believed in a government that was active in the nation to provide "economic prosperity, international security and social justice"(Schulman 1). ... (1) There were three major influences in Lyndon Johnson's life. ... Third, it vowed to "defend the free world" from the advances of communism. ... Johnson thought that he could fund the Great Society at home, as well as support the war against communism in Vietnam; later he regretted leaving the "lady he loved" for the war in Vietnam. ... (14) Watts depressed Johnson because, he was wondering why the world was still in turmoil af...

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Forty-seven volumes cover U.S. involvement in Indochina from World War II through May 1968, the month the peace talks began in Paris. ... Operations Plan 34A (OPLAN 34A), which the Pentagon documents call "an elaborate program of covert military operations against the state of North Vietnam," was conceived by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and began on February 1, 1964. ... As a result of Leaping Lena, cross-border ground operations were carefully reviewed, and the commander of MACV stated that he believed no effective cross-border ground operations could be implemented prior to January 1, 1965, at...

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The people of the counterculture lived in groups called communes that were set up in larger cities around the world. ... "1 Up to two thousand people gathered in the park that day and bands such as the Grateful Dead, the Holding Company, and Wildflower played. ... Both the people of the counterculture and the students of Berkley were both a very large part of the anti-war movement. ... These students were very strongly against the war and also very invested in the civil rights movement. ... Kennedy escalated the war in Vietnam and sending more ground troops over to fight the Viet Cong the...

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