The award winning documentary, Hearts and Minds, portrays the attitudes of the opposing sides in the Vietnam War. ... " This is an excerpt from President Johnson's speech that he delivered during the midst of U.S involvement in the Vietnam War. ... " Following his interview, the film presents a clip of music that states, "We are just beginning and we won't stop winning, till the world is free.... When the Vietnam War was finally over, American soldiers were rudely welcomed home. "You let us go off to war saying yay team lets go fight Vietnam," said Sgt. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Vietnam, the heart and soul of teenage rebellion to the government for creating a draft that sent over the creative and intelligent youth, was a war that deemed to get rid of the political idea, communism, which spread as quick as the napalm that blazed over the serene green landscapes. ... Cross and Martha were both a prime example of the difficulty of sustaining love in the Vietnam War. ... With each letter, Cross was beginning to realize that Martha did not love him and according to Steve Kaplan "the girl did not love Cross," but Cross kept on hoping that maybe one day that beyon...

• Word Count: 1571
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• Grade Level: High School

Democratic nations tend to want to bring an end to wars and find a resolution, while totalitarian nations usually take conflicts to the point of beginning a war, and ending in numerous casualties. ... Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. ... Vietnam supports the theory of democratic peace. ... 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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Initial interpretations of the foundation of the Cold War, known as Orthodoxy, became the norm for historians between the 1940's and the beginning the 1960's. ... 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 ended and time moved further on, the caustic nature of the debate be...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, it was not only Vietnam's lower level of development which lead to the cooperation between both states, but also the political system was much less distinct as Vietnam was just in the process of recovering from its recent war with the USA. ... Since the beginning of the 1970s, several bilateral contracts at colleges and technical colleges had been made between the two states, so that many young students from the SRV were sent to East Germany. ... Another example of solidarity support between the GDR and SRV was the ''Vietnam-Aktion'' of the 1960s. ... For Vie...

• Word Count: 1950
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• Grade Level: Graduate

He chronicles his experiences beginning with his working class background from his tour of duty in World War I, to tenure at Spelman College, and to his disposition of the Vietnam War. ... He did not go there expecting to play a role in the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movements. ... Being a veteran of World War I made him realize the horrors of war and why it occurs. ... After Japan he wrote a book to illustrate why the United States should withdraw from Vietnam immediately. Vietnam: The Logic of Withdraw was a deep critique questioning the morality of the war and questioning the motives ...

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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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From this point onwards, things such as the war, foreign affairs (such as the period of communism), immigration and trade have changed the policies and attitudes of the Australian people, which were in place from federation (1901) to the beginning of the war. ... 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 fro...

• Word Count: 1983
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Beginning as a student protest in a Parisian suburb, Nanterre,quickly spread to a general strike involving millions of French workers that temporarily paralysed the French economy. ... 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 ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Was occupied by Mongolia and suffered from Japanese expansion before World War the Second. From the beginning of 19th century China became a colony of the West and Great Britain in particular. ... Geopolitics of China at the beginning of the 21 century is based on preservation of economical and military power, increasing of its influential status in Asian Pacific region. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 2157
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate