When looking back at JFK's presidency people see, the man who saved the world from nuclear war in the Cuban missile crisis, the lost leader who would of saved the agony of Vietnam. Although these view points can be challenged for example although he may have saved the world from nuclear war he also put the American people in that position, with the invasion of Cuba by Kennedy, and it was only on the understanding that Nuclear bombs lay by the Americans in Turkey be removed that Cuba would remove theirs, the American people at the time were unaware of this information and saw Kennedy as th...

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This essay will give detailed analysis on the reasons that contributed towards their downfall such as the rise in nationalism, the Second World War and arguably the First World War, the rise of the US and other such factors. ... With a history of emerging nationalism in Vietnam where French rule was not desired, the French had to remove three Emperors from 1885 to 1917 and this did not solve their problem. ... Countering this, it can be argued that there are two sides to this argument of a spread in nationalism after the war, one being that the British assisted it. ... Though, this may not be ...

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The vast empire comprised much of present day Cambodia, along with Thailand, Laos and southern Vietnam (CIA Fact book). ... This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing their foothold within Cambodia during the Second World War and consequently led to the independence of Cambodia in 1953. ... This horrific time period came to an end during the late 1970s thanks to a war started with Vietnam. The war resulted in a Vietnamese invasion in 1978 and Pol Pot fleeing the country into neighboring Thailand. Although the end of this war resulted in the Paris Peace Accords of 1991 and subseque...

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It should be noted that the Monsanto corporation is no stranger to controversy: during the Vietnam war they were responsible for the formulation of Agent Orange (Herbicide Orange), a herbicide used in an attempted defoliation campaign under the code name Operation Ranch Hand. The horrific effects of Monsanto's dioxin-based herbicide reaped well-documented health consequences on U.S. veterans, Vietnamese civilians, civilian crops, and did non-repairable damage to large swabs of Vietnam's forested area and ecosystem (Griffiths, 2000). Anti-GMO advocates, who are struggling ag...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standar...

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