India is fixated on South Asia. ... In American eyes, only China looms as a likely future rival. ... The war that raged from 1945 to 1975 in Vietnam was the most prolonged conflict of the 20th century (see Appendix B, Cowie H.R, (1980), Asia and Australia in World Affairs, Australia, page 156. ... Once USA became deeply involved in Vietnam, the American commitment stemmed from a genuine belief that unless communism was halted, as it had been in Korea, the nations of south-east Asia would fall, like dominoes, one by one to communist insurgency. ... In the late 1960's the US got out of the ...

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Growing up Korean in white America was different. ... Whether being ridiculed by whites or other Asians, there were constant cultural conflicts. ... r been to the homeland, I still get these dirty looks from other Koreans here in America, because I am totally not Asian washed. Back Even in high school the typical Asians that always hung out with just only other Asians sometimes called me a "sellout" because I never hung out with them. ... The Asians did not understand why I hung out with them, but that these athletes were different then the Asians were. ...

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The United States was unable to defeat communism in South-East Asia between those years because of their ineptitude, and the superior tactics of the Viet Cong. There were many problems that the Americans faced. ... The Americans also had a lax way of life compared to the Communists who only had the basics. ... The way the Americans had things did not help, they had a massive lack of discipline. ... The Viet Cong's guerrilla tactics were the most important reason for the US failing in South-East Asia. ...

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1941 was a very significant year in the AAP (Australia, Asia and the Pacific) region. ... Although Japan was very strong during the war (this was shown when they attacked Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, in 1941, and severely depleted the American forces there) the tide turned in 1942 at the Battle of the Coral Sea, which was the Allied forces" first naval win in the region. ... After Japan had been defeated and the European powers weakened, many Asian and Pacific nations wanted independence. ... How strong it was came to light when American troops came to Australia to help protect it from Asian forces ...

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What he brought was a spirit of rebellion--against first the French and later the Americans. ... He never committed U.S. troops to South East Asia, but he did authorize material aid in 1950 and raised the level of assistance until his term came to an end in 1953. ... President Truman had transferred his Cold War images from Europe and Southeast Asia and based his policies on naive analogies rather than specific Asian realities. Asia was not Europe though and what may have worked for Truman in Europe would turn out to be a disaster in Asia. ... The B-52 bombers seemed to be one last effort ...

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"We are in Vietnam because our national security and security of the entire free world demands that firm line be drawn against the further advance of Communist imperialism - in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, and in Europe." ... Pro-communist guerilla movements spread across South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. ... "Whether we decide to abandon Southeast Asia or to try to draw another line outside Vietnam, the loss of Vietnam will result in dozen more Vietnams in different parts of the world. ... Vietnam War has been simply right thing to do for many Americans. ... No one wants ever t...

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The initial reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam seemed logical and compelling to American leaders. ... American attention focused primarily on Europe and on Asia beyond Vietnam. ... After China became a communist state in 1949, the stability of Japan became of paramount importance to Washington, and Japanese development required access to the markets and raw materials of Southeast Asia. The outbreak of war in Korea in 1950 served primarily to confirm Washington's belief that communist aggression posed a great danger to Asia . ... The American troops and POWs came home, but the war con...

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This made Native Americans subject to the same laws and gave them the right to the same privileges and responsibilities of other Americans. ... Native Americans had their sovereignty taken without consent. ... The idea of "difference " was becoming un- American. ... The Marshall plan and the Four Points were developed to give aid to Europe and secure allies in Latina America, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. ... Native Americans played a big role in WWII. ...

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Once again America had just finished a great war in which France was an important ally. ... Kennedy quickly discovered that this was a new kind of war America was fighting. ... By the time of Kennedy's death America would have 16,000 "advisors" in the country. ... I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went". ... The television brought Vietnam into the homes of Americans and fueled protest against it. ...

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I think his seven primary concerns are as follows: 1) The termination of the Poverty Program; 2) Sending young brothers to fight for liberation in Southeast Asia, when they don't live free in Georgia and Harlem, and die alongside whites who live in a nation and cannot go to the same schools; 3) The massive violence used in Vietnam; 4) America would never be free or saved from itself unless the descendants had their own shackles removed; 5) The burden of maintain his role as a man who received the Nobel Prize for Peace and work for the "brotherhood of man"; 6) The Vietnam people who have b...

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The media became an enemy as great as the one the country was battling thousands of miles away in the Asian rice fields. ... It rallied American support behind the government and for the entrance of American troops into the war. ... The media and the public viewpoint shifted once between these two attacks on America. The Vietnam War had very little support on the home front from the American public. ... Reporters usually lacked experience and understanding of Asian politics. ...

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Finally, the New Deal "transformed the American party system." ... (4) American liberalism changed in three ways after FDR's death. ... (6) American Keynesians wanted the economy to keep growing bigger and bigger, so that there will be enough for everybody; some believed that this was an American alternative to Marxism. ... During his mission Johnson was convinced that "the fate of all Asia depended on American leadership in the region"(Schulman 61), and we must decide whether to meet that challenge with full realization of the costs America will endure; or else hold back and watch th...

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The Moment the War Comes Home After landing troops on the battlefield of South Vietnam with huge amounts of war expenses, Washington D.C. incessantly acclaimed for a liberal democracy in this small Asian country. ... After witnessing the media portrayal of the devastation in Southeast Asia, Americans began to react to US participation in this war. ... That was really the battles in the heart of America. ... The war also left behind a painful America. ... American blood not only shed on the battlefields of Vietnam, it also shed on American territory against the US military intervention in In...

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Because South Vietnam had its own enemy within country borders, neighboring North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) prevented South Vietnam from falling to the communist's, which ultimately led the United States to fight a major amount of battles in Southeast Asia (Raskin& Fall 117). ... (Raskin& Fall 191) American forces in Southeast Asia operated under some strict restraints such as no being allowed to invade enemy territory in North Vietnam and for many years being stuck in ground, search-and-destroy missions in the remote jungle regions (Cameron 80). ... From then on the Vietco...

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Most Americans simply assume that the United States is a democracy. ... In his campaign Johnson promised American voters "that American boys would not fight Asian boys in Vietnam." ... It has also been speculated that Roosevelt instigated the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor by refusing to trade with Japan until it stopped its military exploits in Asia (Hargrove 102). ... A president's actions can help support the American democracy also. ... Yet Reagan's steadfastness proved that he was willing to support the American people's goals and thus be working part of American democracy...

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Most Americans simply assume that the United States is a democracy. ... In his campaign Johnson promised American voters "that American boys would not fight Asian boys in Vietnam." ... It has also been speculated that Roosevelt instigated the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor by refusing to trade with Japan until it stopped its military exploits in Asia (Hargrove 102). ... A president's actions can help support the American democracy also. ... Yet Reagan's steadfastness proved that he was willing to support the American people's goals and thus be working part of American democracy...

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The American people were outraged by this increase. ... He sent envoys to European, Asian, African, and Latin American capitals carrying a message of America's desire for peace. ... When the end of 1967 approached the American public support for the war had dropped to only 39%. The president's performance was not being approved by the American public. ... I believe that a peaceful Asia is far nearer to reality because of what America has done in Vietnam. ...

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They finally had to pull out of South Vietnam after one million Vietnamese as well as nearly 60, 000 Americans lost lives and the administration incurred severe backlash at home (Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, chapter 3). ... The war had shown that even America's vast military might could not stop the spread of Communism. ... Students protested local and federal governments as well as Johnson's policies in Southeast Asia. ... For the U.S, animosity towards Iran came from that hostage crisis, while for Iran, anti-American buildup came from the 1953 coup and reinstatement of the Shah'...

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Popular culture and its natural process of development can be and is affected by virtually everything from other cultures (the recent Latin influence on American popular music), the weather (would Morrisey have happened in a country that didn't get as much rain?)... When it comes to popular music in a North American setting, there is some precedent that we can examine. ... As that war raged on, and the television cameras overseas broadcast images of death and destruction all over the jungles of Southeast Asia, the natural evolutionary processes of popular culture did their thing. ... The ...

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In 1969, African Americans were still not being treated equal and there was still very strong hate among Americans. ... Many liberation movements arose in American Society in 1969 and 1970. ... In 1969, eighty percent of Americans wanted the war to be over. ... Damage that will never parish from their minds. 58,000 American deaths, 200,000 Americans wounded, and 1 million Vietnamese deaths are some facts that are instilled in the minds of so many Americans from that period. ... The thousands of young adults that arrived in White Lake, New York on August 15th, 1969, wearing "gaily colorful ...

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Vietnam is a small country on the coast of South East Asia. ... " Further, in his news report for New America Media, De Tran noted a fifty seven year old woman and her nineteen year old severely deformed son, as they live in a one bedroom shack, with a leaky roof and no running water within the city of Danang where some of the US military personnel were station. ... Thousands of American GIs still receive disability payment for condition related to dioxin. ... "The spray was white like a midst," said a former soldier in the article "Agent Orange Studies Overlook Vietnamese...

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Though Americans were not fighting the Koreans or the Chinese in Vietnam, the Americans were still fighting communist forces. ... Links between both the American and Communist forces strategies were plain to see, tactics were not however the key to America changing its policy on War. ... Johnson called the Americans being sent to the Southeast Asia military Advisors. ... Like the Presidents before him Bush upheld Americas policy of limited war. ... It was these actions that shaped the future policies of America's conflicts....

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And, although it only lasted for about one month, it was one of America's most notable battles that taught the Americans and the Vietnamese valuable lessons about life and war. ... The United States became involved in Vietnam because it believed that if all of the country fell under a communist government, communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia and beyond. ... So the offensive did, in fact, not take Americans by surprise. ... The question that started to be asked by American troops and its citizens was: "Is this the offensive or not?" ... At the very least, they would shatt...

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One of the main photojournalists in the Vietnam War was the American, Larry Burrows. ... The causes of the Vietnam War revolve around the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia and America wanted to stop its spread. ... The Americans backed the capitalists, South Vietnam, but because they put troops on the ground the Soviets could only back North Vietnam through China, supplying them with weapons so that the Vietcong could fight the Americans. ... One other factor could have been television, which showed the conflict to Americans on a ni...

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For example, congress passed the Elementary and Secondary School Act of 1965, which was the first form of broad financial aid given in America's history. ... During Johnson's Presidential career, he spent much of his time developing a solid foundation for the well-being of America's Foreign Affairs. ... 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 peace negotiations if Vietnam abandoned the war (Goodwin, Doris 255.) ... With a close analysis of ...

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