Korea has earned the distinction of being called by many authors the bloodiest campaign ever fought during the Cold War. Not officially a war at all Korea was the first conflict of its kind, it changed the policy of how America would fight its future wars. American involvement in the Korean conflict was reminiscent of the countries involvement in last two world wars in that it was not prepared to fight in a full-scale conflict. ... In taking the United States to war in Korea, President Truman did two critical things that would shape the future of America's military actions. ... Statin...

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This was basically the accepted perspective taken by the United States up until about the first world war when President Woodrow Wilson decided to plunge into the war effort. ... After World War II, the United States began its journey as world leader. ... Later America plunged itself into a war with North Korea to protect its neighboring South Korea, this was possible through the United Nations Security Council and although many Americans lost their lives, we created a bond with the South Koreans. ... This was actually the beginning of two wars. ... Americans now began a series of skepticism r...

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(Hargrove 116) However, once elected Johnson escalated the war with Vietnam even though public sentiment was against such action (Hargrove 123). ... The general public had made it clear that after the heavy loses of World War I, they wished to remain isolated from European affairs. ... If Roosevelt's intention was indeed to pull the United States into a war abroad, he succeeded. ... For example, Johnson used misinformation to continue his war in Vietnam. At the time that Johnson was involving the United States in the Vietnam War he was also trying to pass much of the legislation for his G...

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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. ... As designed by the Constitution's frame...

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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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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. ... Within the past few weeks the United States has diplomatically confronted North Korea after North Korea admitted that it has nuclear capabilities and has no intentions of disbanding the same. ... 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...

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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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During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, tension was created because the USSR supported Arab countries while the US supported Israel. Fortunately, in what potentially could have resulted in a war, President Johnson made an effort to create peace with Soviet Premier Aleksey Kosygin. ... That was the only event that occurred before Johnson was fully in support of the Vietnam War and increased military involvement. ... For example, in October 1966, representatives from the United States, Thailand, Korea, the Philippines, and other south Asian countries agreed to withdraw their troops and work for peac...

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This area includes: China, Japan, Korea, Philippine Islands, and Samoa. ... In 1973 nearing the end of the Vietnam War, President Gerald. ... Ford extended affirmative action to people with disabilities and veterans of the war. ...

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The Cold War was at its height, hundreds of thousands of American troops were in Vietnam, and the views of society were split down the middle. ... The policy would stop trying to eliminate communism and win the Cold War, but rather replace it through new initiatives directed toward finding areas of cooperation. ... It was an outline of America's foreign policy that dealt with the ordeal that the past involvement in Korea and Vietnam, which were countries with no prior commitment to us, and in regions not protected by any alliances. ... They felt that his policy was not going far enough an...

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In November, 2000, the presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore resulted in a controversial result that remains a source of cynicism more than a decade later. One of the contentious issues was that while Gore won the popular vote, Bush won the electoral college; the more troubling is...

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