The plan was to give $400 million U.S. dollars in aid to Turkey and Greece with which to set up respective governments. ... American analysts had hoped that the invasion would spark a popular uprising against the Guatemalan government. When the citizens of Guatemala failed to revolt against their own government the CIA decided to take a more active role in the plot to overthrow Arbenz. ... Afghanistan The afghan war, which was from 1978-92, was a conflict between anti-Communist Muslim guerrillas and the Afghan government and Soviet Union. ... The conflict largely settled into a stalemate, ...

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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have bought the realism of what is going on in our heads. ... This meant it was a pre-existing condition which disqualified him for treatment or any kind of compensation from the United States Government. ... Fast forward to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, in an article titled "PTSD after deployment to Iraq: conflicting rates, conflicting claims" published in 2009, the authors J. ... After arriving to his duty assignment in 2006, he was shortly shipped off to Iraq. He served 15 long months during the most violent times in Iraq. ...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

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A more direct method of gaining allies was the Truman Doctrine of 1946 which was used to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 It was the beginning of American policy for the cold war. ... The American government after the war, realized it was in a very profitable position, with many of the smaller countries having to choose whether to side with the reds or the red white and blue. ...

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