Past historic events from World War II with Adolf Hitler, at Munich in 1938, displayed that if aggression is not immediately handled the aggressors become more encouraged. ... One other important reason President Johnson sent numerous troops to South Vietnam is because the United States made an oath to protect Vietnam from the threat of Communism. ... The only war was not being fought in Vietnam but back in the United States as well. ... Former Vietnam veterans even supported to end the war. The veterans established a group known as the Vietnam Veterans against War. ...

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It provides a history of the events of Vietnam beginning from the end of World War II, continuing through to the Vietnam War itself. ... As well as providing the historical events, the book attempts to put the Vietnam War in its place in history. ... The book continues to cover the events after the war, including how America recovered from the war and the effect the war had on American relations up to the 1990's. ... The book is essentially a historical account of the Vietnam war. ... Based on this, the book provides an important lesson.This makes the thorough historical coverage more re...

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Likewise my father chose to fight for our country in another war. He was a Ranger with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam so we were always taught to respect those who served their country. ... I am presently helping my father record his combat experiences that will be a part of a book on Vietnam. His war stories have been included in several other books on Vietnam. ... I realize my father will never be able to do such activities as practicing softball with me or attend important school events due to his pain. ...

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One of the darkest, most controversial, and least talked about moments in American history is the Vietnam War. Zinn is extremely critical of the United States" involvement in Vietnam, and he tries his absolute best to let the reader know every fault, controversy, and mistake that the US made during this unfortunate war. For the most part, I agree with Zinn in acknowledging that the Vietnam War did take the lives of thousands of innocent Vietnamese civilians and American soldiers. ... That war is World War Two. ... I believe that it is important for all Americans to read A People's His...

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Australia still remains a part of the English empire and, more importantly, is still a country blindly following the world powers. ... We blindly followed into unpopular wars merely because the US told us to, first Vietnam and now Iraq, supposedly because of weapons of mass destruction, which have yet to be discovered, and then because the Iraqi people needed liberation. ... The US has shown a willingness to control Australia when it manipulated political events through the CIA in the Menzies era to ensure that the right people were elected. ... Pilger devotes two chapters, The Struggl...

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Instead of giving us war as a tactical maneuver, Spielberg gives us war as human experience. ... Although the film is only loosely based on a true incident, it's hard not to accept these characters and events as real and this is one very important aspect when looking at the representation of war in Saving Private Ryan, tghe realism of the representation of war. ... We"re left with the message that bravery isn't about facing death with no fear, it's about facing death despite fear -- because there are some things more important than yourself. ... It's not a pro-war mo...

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By the beginning 20th century with the effects of industrialization and common usage of communication devices and transportation becoming faster and more comfortable economy started to play the most important role in a state's political policies. ... Equally Asia has been struck by fundamental changes: from the imperial China to the communist China, the Vietnam war, the Korean war, the independence of India, the Iran Iraq war, the Gulf war, etc. Economy plays the most important role or is the main criteria in a country's prestige and power; economically strong states started to have ...

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To back this up I am going to raise some points about events that have happened in the past regarding nuclear products e.g. power stations, weapons etc. ... A nuclear war could start at any moment. ... In spite of terrible wars in the Middle East and Vietnam and several nuclear alarms, he US and the Soviet Union seem to be edging towards security than threat. ... People want to have a complete disarmament because they don't want repeats of Nagasaki and more importantly Hiroshima. ... Experts still think that a nuclear war could start by accident. ...

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