Communist expansion has been feared much by the United States, especially after the Korean War. ... American leaders felt that United States should stand as a firm power against any communist advance. ... (Dodd 810) More third world countries fall into the communist hands in 1960's that ever before. ... Pro-communist guerilla movements spread across South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. ... One of the most famous examples would be Che Guevara fighting for communist revolution in Bolivia. ...

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He also stated that the American people should be aware of the communists, Khrushchev in the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communists, how they were on the move and America had to counter and move towards freedom. ... Kennedy simply said that they needed to watch and be continually alert to what the communists were doing. Nixon agreed and also stated that the way to fight Communism was to attack the injustices in society that the Communists feed upon. ... Nixon said that nothing should just be turned over to the Communists because it just makes them more hungry for more land. ... He ...

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Obviously, the Vietnamese wanted their own country, and their long history of being a colony prompted the oppressed people to fight for their independence in the French-Indochina war. 7 Ho Chi Min, a leader of the Communist party, organized the Vietnamese independence movement, Viet Minh. Asking for support from America first, Ho Chi Min did not want to have to turn to communist support for the freedom of his people. ... It was only after Russia and China offered to help that Ho adopted communist ideals and wanted to make all of Vietnam communist. The Vietnam war started simply because Ho Chi ...

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Article#1 This article was written in the Washington Post on November 23rd, 1693, and titled, "Mystery Call Foretold Fate of President." The article imposed the fact that fifteen minuets before the President was shot an Oxnard California telephone supervisor over heard a woman whisper, "The P...

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So in April of 1970, he approved a joint US-Vietnamese attack on Communist sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia. It took two months and huge quantities of supplies were taken, supposedly assuring that the Communists would not mount an offensive in Vietnam. ... This controversy was settled in 1973 when it was found out that the United States secretly bombed Communist targets in Cambodia in 1969 and again in 1970; Even though Nixon had said that "neither the United States nor South Vietnam has moved against those enemy sanctuaries because we did not wish to violate the territory of a neutral...

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He did not have any illusion about the communist government in Vietnam or about a future communist society, but he knew that the invasion and bombing was wrong. ... He sympathized with communists because he realized what they were all about. He knew that the communists might provide land, medical care, and education more equitably to the poor. ...

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Kennedy wants to prevent South Vietnam from becoming communist. ... The rebellion was lead by 8,000 Southern born communists. 1963, American troops totaled 35,000. ... The Communist respond by taking the war to South Vietnam's cities. ... In 1970, North Vietnam receives four billion dollars from the communists. ...

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So, he turned to the Soviet Union and Communist China for aid and both countries were more than happy to help his cause. Being aided by these countries was the catalyst for Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnam adopting a communist government. The corruption in the South also formed a pro- communist group there who were supporters of Ho Chi Minh: the Viet Cong. ... Many in the U.S. also believed in the Domino Theory: the idea that once one land became communist, the surrounding areas would follow suit. ... For fear that Ho Chi Minh's Communist party would win in the elections for Vietnamese le...

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In 1946, the U.S. began providing economic aid to the French in their war against the communist Vietminh. ... (Dougan 130) Communist casualties during the Tet Offensive were as high as 40,000, mainly NVA. ... (Krepinevich 234) As the war in Vietnam progressed, President Johnson perceived the need to send more American troops and finally declared war against the communist North Vietnamese. ...

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"Current trends, unless reversed in the next 2 ­3 months," he said, "will lead to neutralization at best and more likely to a Communist-controlled state." ... Taylor divided his analysis of the circumstances into three sections: Strategy: "The communist strategy as defined by North Vietnam and the puppet National Liberation Front is to seek a political settlement favorable to the communists. ...

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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".) Before long, the communists formed their own system of government that was organized into the National Liberation Front (NLF.) ...

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In China, the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which had been supported by the United States, was unable to withstand the advance of Communist forces under Mao Zedong. ... Truman's critics, including Kennedy, charged that the administration had failed to support Chiang Kai-shek against the Communists. ...

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Truman's critics, including Kennedy, charged that the administration had failed to support Chiang Kai-Shek against the Communists. ... In August 1961, in an effort to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West, the Communists ordered a wall built on the border between East and West Berlin. ...

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Vietnam Antiwar Movements The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the United States from 1965- 1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. Prominent senators had already begun criticizing American involvement in Vietnam during the summer of 1964, which led to th...

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Nixon's Foreign Policy Richard Milhous Nixon was elected President of the United States in 1968. In a low-key campaign, Nixon promised to bring peace with honor in Vietnam and to unite a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War. Nixon defeated his two opponents, Hubert Humphrey and George W...

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The JFK Assassination: Investigating Motives Behind Popular Conspiracy Theories Most people who were alive at the time remember exactly where they were on the fateful day of November 22, 1963. On that day President John F. Kennedy arrived in Dallas to a crowd of excited people lining the streets, ...

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Vietnam Antiwar Movements The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the United States from 1965- 1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. Prominent senators had already begun criticizing American involvement in Vietnam during the summer of 1964, which led to th...

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How would you feel if your home, the one place you and your family can feel safe to practice and believe in whatever they wanted to was constantly being invaded by your next door neighbor who thinks otherwise. You would most like be furious and attempt to put an end to the reign of tyranny at all c...

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1. There are several groups that were involved in the assassination of JFK. First of all, it is Soviet. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of Russia who was humiliated by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, instigated the assassination. According to the two theories related to Soviet, one proposes that Osw...

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In Bruce J. Schulman's brief biography of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, Schulman offers a digest of Johnson's early life through his persistent means of working towards American liberalism. In his book, Schulman states that Johnson "personified a liberal, activist government", by means of a ...

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For many decades liberalism was the biggest factor in politics, and the largest force in changing America. Liberals believed in a government that was active in the nation to provide "economic prosperity, international security and social justice"(Schulman 1). Lyndon Baines Johnson "embodied the cont...

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Truman continued the surveillance of Americans suspected of "subversion", a violation of privacy rights carried out by the FBI, which involved wiretapping, the opening of mail, and other acts of domestic spying justified by the threat of communist infiltration into America. ...

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Though President Eisenhower lobbied for equal rights for women and ethnic groups from 1953 to 1961, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy gained power and influence in the government by conducting investigations against suspected communists in the federal government which reclaimed the Republican Party for the conservatives (56-71). ...

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