Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. ... We failed to accomplish the goals we created in the beginning. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. The Vietnam conflict only became a larger issue when a civil war broke out in Laos, We needed to find out how serious this problem was so we sent vice president Johnson to Vietnam to assess the issue. ...

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Although, in the end, communism reigned in Vietnam, the effect the war had on the world was the beginning of the end of the dominance of communist leadership in many similar nations. ... Vietnam began its mark on the world, when beginning in 1857, France attacked the land and later seized it as a colony. ... Indochina was part of the beginnings of another world war"(Erringtonand McKercher 17). ... In 1963 sides were beginning to form for the war. ... Citizens back home in America were beginning to question way the U.S. was fighting this war. ...

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Prior to the Vietnam War, the use of the helicopter had been limited to transporting the wounded from the battlefield. ... The war traced its origins to before the Cold War and even before World War II. ... A war of guerillas and insurgents, a war fought in ambushes not traditional combat. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prolonged United States involvement the number of people against it grew. ... The Vietnam War was the first war in the history of the United States to be fought on foreign and domestic soil at the same time. ...

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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR Why was there a Vietnam War?? This question has been asked a lot of times since the war. ... The United States war in Vietnam had no beginning and it was a series of steps between 1950-1965 "in May 1950, President Harry S. ... The United States was now at War! Since there were so many starting points in the Vietnam War it complicated to say the causes of the U.S entry. ...

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In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. ... Small begins his outline of the anti-war movement with what he calls the "Americanization of the war" when the majority of Americans were supportive of action in Vietnam. ... Despite popular support of the president, this early stage of the war was also the beginning of the anti-war movement as teach-...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. ... In the sixties the "Cold War" was heating up. ... Many feel that because of Kenn...

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Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. ... Then too, as with the undeclared war in Vietnam, this was a bi-partisan phenomenon. ... One difficulty was foreseeing the contingencies under which war may arise. ... The reconvening of Congress to deal with an undeclared war was merely be the beginning of the battle. ... Senators Church of Idaho and Case of New Jersey introduced a bill forbidding the use of any funds whatsoever to finance the re-involvement of US military forces in hostilities in or over Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia without pr...

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He faced the major challenge - Vietnam War. ... However, his efforts to negotiate a compromise with North Vietnam were futile. ... Nixon was determined not to be defined by the war. ... This was the beginning of illegality created by the administration. ... However, in the beginning the story did not get much attention from the public. ...

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Humphrey McCarthy would become a strong runner during the beginning of the campaign and then would start to fold over during the end of the election. ... During the election race, McCarthy would be most concerned with the war in Vietnam, calling it illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional. ... McCarthy would make reference to the war as still having to do with the Cold War, which he said was over now and Vietnam did not have to be fought, at all. ... Kennedy and McCarthy would show difference in their campaigns when it came to the war in Vietnam. Kennedy would call for the war to be ended,...

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Nixon campaigned with telling the public that he would end the Vietnam War. Nixon blamed President Johnson's actions of adding troops and criticized his decisions of escalating the war in Vietnam. ... The plan of Vietnamization seemed to be very well developed in its beginning stages, but soon became much more complicated later in the war as Nixon was faced with lots of new challenges. ... Lots of platoons had parties in their bunkers and refused to fight. 3 Nixon became aware of the soldier's issues in Vietnam and looked for new ways to try to make peace and end the war with the...

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An investigation into Watergate was starting and in the beginning Woodward and Bernstien had their doubts that the whole truth would not be revealed. ... During this time the U.S. was involved in the Vietnam War. In America at the time there were many Anti-war protests and formations of groups like the New Left. ... Government because they would not back out of Vietnam. ...

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"I"d have to say the Vietnam War definitely had a big impact on society. ... One example was the Tetan offensive of 1968 in Vietnam. ... "The 60's is the Vietnam War, and being in the army, I went to helicopters that didn't have anything on them to ones which have guns and can shoot missiles. With everything focused on Vietnam there were new tactics and advancements; we even copied the French a little bit by using H-21 helicopters, which are kind of like banana shaped helicopters. It would just have to be the Vietnam war that had to have the most impact on me." 10. ...

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Johnson encountered one of his biggest obstacles in 1959 when the Vietnam War had begun as a result of Communist-led nationalists rising to opposition to the government in South Vietnam (Encarta 2001, "Johnson, Lyndon Baines".) ... Right from the beginning, John inherited from the Eisenhower administration that the United States would not permit South Vietnam to fall to Communism (Goodwin, Doris 253.) ... That was the only event that occurred before Johnson was fully in support of the Vietnam War and increased military involvement. After months upon months of brutal war, Johnson resolved tha...

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This book starts talking about the beginning of the 1960s and how everyone seemed to have great expectations for better things to come. ... Around the mid-part, the Vietnam War and Civil rights are highly talked about. Also, there is discussion about President Johnson's Great Society (war on poverty, war on racism, Medicare, etc., which seemed to have good intentions, but rather unrealistic since poverty and racism seemed to continue even after the 1960s were long gone, and poor people seemed to find a reason not to improve themselves,(why bother trying to get a job when you can go on wel...

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Richard Milhouse Nixon had it within his grasp to be the greatest post-World War II president, he was extremely intelligent, had a driving ambition, and was a political consummate. ... Francis' father, Richard's Grandfather, Samuel Brady Nixon, was only fifteen when his father, George, died in the Civil War. ... Nixon exploited the fact that the Cold War rivalry between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. was just beginning and that anti-communist sentiment was high. ... Even in the beginning of his political career it's easily seen that Nixon was a better politician than he was a person. ......

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War was the topic of nearly all conversations and sex and drugs were on everyone's minds. While boogie fever swept dance floors, young men were sent off to die in a war that they could never win. ... One can be certain though that with her steadfast and determined way of thinking, she probably would have been protesting the Vietnam War from the very start and the right of nuclear power plants to be in operative mode. ... For example, many other wars were breaking out and many others were beginning to cool off. The Yom Kippur War began in 1973 while the Cold War was ceasing between the US,...

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"Once a man has been in politics, once that's been in his life, he will always return if the people want him." (Richard M. Nixon) Richard Nixon's the thirty seventh president of United States (1969-1974), was born in Yorba-Linda, CA in 1913. Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and D...

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What comes to mind when you think of Richard Nixon? Although most people immediately recognize his name as a previous President involved in the Watergate Scandal, few know anything more about this controversial President. Overshadowed by the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon had a tumultuous ch...

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This wouldn't normally mean a lot but during this time there was a lot of fear of a World War III because of the Cold War in Russia. ... The biggest issue though during Nixon's presidency was the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War at the time was splitting the country, as well as splitting American families- physically, mentally, and emotionally. ... During his State of the Union message in the beginning of 1971 President Nixon announced a 100 million dollar grant for cancer research. But it was not the war on cancer that would earn him a permanent place in history. ...

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A quarter of the working force or 13 million people were unemployed in 1932, and this was only the beginning (Encarta Encyclopedia). ... The Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Lewis and Clark Expedition was the first United States overland exploration of the American West and Pacific Northwest, beginning in May 1804 and ending in September 1806. ... The league was based on a new concept: collective security against the "criminal" threat of war. ... The covenant was formulated as part of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, in 1919. ... Cold War: The cold war is the post-194...

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