Communist Russia and China were strong supporters of the North, and to keep Communism contained the United States sent troops to the South. ... They threatened to bomb China and to use atomic bombs on Korea. ... For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea. ... China lost 967,000, and North Korea lost 624,000. ... Every member supported American arms for the first time, and possibly only time in its short history. ...

• Word Count: 1181
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Vietnam War is called by many today to be one of the only wars in the history of the United States that they ever been defeated in. ... After the War, the US pumped billions of dollars back into the Japanese economy because it was afraid that Japan was going to become a communist country and they would have been intimated if China, Russia and Japan were all communist nations. Nations like England, France and most of Europe was backing the United States and countries like China, North Korea, Cuba and Vietnam were backing the Soviet Union. ... The one major thing that helped the United...

• Word Count: 1048
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea". ... Despite this support, America's Korean campaign was unsuccessful, this was to some degree the fault of President Truman, who had not believed that the Chinese government would be prepared to intervene and he also underestimated the military power of China. Therefore, not wanting to engage in an all-out war with China and the Soviet Union, which would most likely have led to the Third world war, Truman was forced to negotiate, and thus the Korean War ended in stalemate on July 1953 ...

• Word Count: 1037
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By definition, the Vietnam War was a protracted military conflict between the Communist forces of North Vietnam supported by China and the Soviet Union and the non-Communist forces of South Vietnam supported by the United States. ... If the book of history known as Vietnam is put on a shelf and is never read, then no one will truly know what war is like and what a great blessing peace is. ...

• Word Count: 885
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Americans see it as a blemish upon their history because they couldn't decisively get the victory that they wanted, but the Vietnamese people have not gotten the life that they thought independence would bring them either. ... They are slowly moving towards establishing relations not only with their other Southeast Asian neighbors by joining the ASEAN, but also have worked on their relations with China and the United States. ...

• Word Count: 669
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

(Jezer 33) The integration of the fifties was one of the most pivotal points in United States history. ... (Jezer 102) Throughout the past fifty years in American history, the media has played larger and larger role in how we view our country and the world. ... From the Vietnam War being the first televised war, to the United States spy plane being *censored* down over China, the media is a big influence on how we view the world. ...

• Word Count: 1207
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

One problem with Johnson's approach was instead of sending ships and Gatling guns, he sent B-52 bombers that could carpet bomb miles of territory easily, Defoliants that killed jungles and humans alike, and ground fire power that was greater that any in history. ... Congress was threatening a bill of impeachment indicated it would cut off all funding for operations in Indo-china once U.S. forces had withdrawn. ...

• Word Count: 1233
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School