The Vietnam war was fought in 1955 to 1975, and the Australian military fought in it from 1962 to 1973, and at the time, it was the longest that Australia had participated in all-out war. ... There are many contributing factors for the beginning of the Vietnam War which was all linked to the Cold War. The term ˜Cold War' refers to the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) which began after World War II through suspicions and hate between the two superpowers. ... Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given con...

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The numerous conflicts of the war and peace produced writers who sometimes chose to concentrate their writing on the horrifying effects and worthlessness of war. ... Just like Owen, Jarrell shows the horrific aspect of war in his poem and he is giving us an insight into war. ... The last line of the poem is conceivably the best graphic picture to portray the cruelty and the coldness of war, when he states that "when I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose" (551).From the ambiguity of this line we can understand at least two meanings at once. ... Sadness goes hand in han...

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The longest war in American history, (besides the Iraq War), and probably one of the most controversial events in American history as a whole, the Vietnam war divided our country and resulted in over 58,000 American causalities. ... Because of the Cold War, the United States believed that the Soviet Union was responsible for any communism in any country, and that the goal of this was to envelope the entire world in communism and wipe out capitalism and democracy. ... That is exactly what the U.S. did in the case of the Vietnam Civil War. ... This was only one failed military tactic during the ...

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The fear of Communism crept in continuously throughout the Cold War. ... The fear and paranoia of Communism did not destruct after the Cold War. ... Former Vietnam veterans even supported to end the war. ... This war was not traditional fighting. ... This war was guerrilla war. ...

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Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. ... It was the first war televised, making people more aware of what was happening overseas. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... With the Cold War, the United States had promised to keep communism from spreading. ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. ...

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Gina Ferraro History 137 THE VIET NAM WAR REPRESENTED THE POWER OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO WAGE WAR WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS? I agree that the Viet Nam War represented the power of an American president to wage war without the consent of congress. ... Kennedy inherited the Cold War policy from President's Truman and Eisenhower and was determined to stop the spread of communism. ... Johnson used the powers given to him by congress to wage the war without declaring war and congress did very little to impede or interfere with the administrations war policy toward Viet ...

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The war traced its origins to before the Cold War and even before World War II. ... Eisenhower's advisors after calculating the forces necessary to win the war were perceptive enough to convince him to keep the U.S. out of the Indochina war. ... 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 d...

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As the book progresses, so does the war. ... A Rumor of War was written not long after Caputo's experience in this tragic war. ... No one spoke and I felt it come back again, that old, familiar, cold, cramping fear Goddamn this war, he said, Goddamn this war," (248). ... These things all display how war can affect man; war truly is a nightmare. ... A Rumor of War is one ...

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The Nature of War War is part of God's world-order. ... The Cold War was in full force and the American government felt it needed to stop the spreading Communism in South East Asia. ... War is part of God's world-order, in war all man's evil desires are unleashed upon the enemy. War is an evil act, and can change any man. All forms of war should be stopped. ...

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The story takes place during the Vietnam War in the late 1860's (O'Brien 637). ... The challenging terrain of the Vietnam War is just one of the many difficulties they face. ... Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet, each carried a green plastic poncho that could be used as a raincoat or ground sheet or makeshift tent (O'Brien 638). ... At one point, Cross even says he is a kid at war, in love (O'Brien 643). ... This just comes to show that if the war were not affecting him, mentally, then he would not need drugs to get him through the difficultie...

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After World War II, French power began to slip and the First Indochina War began. ... These countries were founded during the Cold War. ... Not with weapons, but war seemed to be inevitable. ... The Cold War mentality, combined with a large communist group trying to gain control of the region led to the Vietnam War. ... This was the beginning of the First Indochina War. ...

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Baring in mind that the war occurred at the height of the cold war and the propaganda was quite strong; there was an overall distrust of communism and the East. ... This war became known as the T.V war. ... This turned the cold war into a three-way distrust from a two way one. All the countries had good reasons to want a warming of the cold war: America wanted to separate the USSR and China, as together they were too much of a threat to America. ... This was not to mean the cold war was over, the nuclear arms race with the USSR continued, but it did mean that the Vietnam War was drawing to an ...

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. ... They'd been close buddies, the tightest, and he remembered how last night they had huddled together under their ponchos, the rain cold and steady, the water rising to their knees, but how Kiowa had just laughed it off and said they should concentrate on better things. ... If this happened while he was in the battlefield, the Narrator might not have survived the war....

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. ... They'd been close buddies, the tightest, and he remembered how last night they had huddled together under their ponchos, the rain cold and steady, the water rising to their knees, but how Kiowa had just laughed it off and said they should concentrate on better things. ... If this happened while he was in the battlefield, the Narrator might not have survived the war....

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This war would be the Vietnam Revolution. ... At the time, the United States was in the midst of its own conflict with Russia, which was called the Cold War. ... In 1963 sides were beginning to form for the war. ... However, as they began to realize, this war was going be a long drawn out war. ... The growing anti-war movement alarmed the U.S. government, and eventually dictated the way the government ran the war. ...

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The American conception of Vietnam as a cold war battleground largely ignored the struggle for social justice and national sovereignty occurring within the country. ... By July 1965, Johnson faced the choice of being the first president to lose a great war or of converting the Vietnamese War into a massive, U.S. directed military effort. ... The American troops and POWs came home, but the war continued. ... In April 1975, North Vietnamese troops and tanks converged on Saigon, and the war was over. Why did the United States lose the war? ...

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The movie also failed to illustrate the hippies that fought in the war. ... The movie also failed to explain how the war began? How the Americans become involved in Indochina war? ... Their attitudes towards the war, was very cold and harsh. ... I felt that the movie, Platoon, was pro - American and not pro - war. ...

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This started the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1959 - 1973 when the U.S finally withdrew. ... (Vietnam War Statistics). ... This started a war between the French and Vietnamese. For years, Ho Chi Minh tried to get the U.S to help him but the U.S stood strong with its Cold War foreign policy of containment, which meant preventing the spread of Communism. ... (The History of the Vietnam War). ...

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The film uses beautiful cinematography along with superb sound mixing, soundtracks, and a huge budget to recreate the Vietnam War as closely as possible. ... This pounding mix of sounds creates such a powerful feeling that it hits the viewer with a wave of energy that pours out of Captain Willard's cold, dark, and blank eyes, all before they are even introduced to him, or even heard him speak. ... As a viewer one is left thinking of the gore and gruesome details within the action of the war sequences and "Indeed, the very nature of cinema has the tendency to turn war into spectacle, and a...

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In an unjustified war, it means just that. ... By using dualistic thinking all unjustified wars can be avoided. ... We were currently in a Cold War situation with Russia and fearing that communism would spread through out the world, America thought it was there duty to keep that from happening. ... No one wanted to be remembered as the president who was the first to lose a war. ... The war tactics used by America in Vietnam were lower than low. ...

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The soldiers carried loneliness, uncertainty of the truth of war, and the heavy burden of physical and emotion weight; Tim O'Brien uses war related imagery to symbolize the vim of storytelling in his book "The Things They Carried". ... Cross and Martha were both a prime example of the difficulty of sustaining love in the Vietnam War. Martha's love was a warming welcome to Cross, he heard her voice in letters and tasted her from the pebble, but she gave a cold shoulder with each letter she signed with love. ... "The only certain thing during the Vietnam War was that n...

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Over the next several hundred years, rivalry with the Champa led to an almost constant state of war between the two countries. ... Until the last years of the Vietnam War, more than eighty percent of the Vietnamese people lived on the land. ...

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The foreign policies of President Eisenhower led to the involvement of the Americans in the Vietnam War, but to a limited extent. The initial involvement of the U.S. in this conflict was based on strategies to ensure a victory in the Cold War. These foreign policies led to an effective involvement in the Vietnam War from an American perspective. ... From the 1880's until World War II, France governed Vietnam as part of French Indochina under the control of Emperor Bao Dia. ... Two months later in July, foreign ministers of nineteen nations met at Geneva to end the war in Vietnam. ...

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Coming out of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. ... Mecklin proves this to be the case when he states how these beliefs were reaffirmed when the Americans had arrived there, since "among most of the ten million people of rural South Vietnam, terms like democracy, Communism, imperialism, and Cold War were meaningless," (Mecklin 4). ... For Hoopes, a fighter pilot in the latter years of the Vietnam War, it was clear that what constituted victory and defeat was not shared equally by both sides, since the Americans...

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Life in America after World War II was immersed in social and political turmoil. The country was in the middle of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and many people were left with a false sense of security. ... African-Americans were in search for equality, the Cold War, and the country was on the brink of falling into a war in Vietnam. ... Songs like "Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall- - written about the Cuban Missile Crisis - and "Masters of War- - condemning political leader's pugnacious tactics - brought to the forefront the political and social issues occurring (Szatmary). ... Coupled ...

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