The story is described for the reader in an hour-by-hour account of the four-day battle by hundreds of different soldiers. ... Instead of marching for hours through enemy territory with a heavy pack, a solider could be flown via helicopter to any battlefront with in minuets. ... The first eighty soldiers had to face an enemy of sixteen hundred strong alone for a half hour. ... The assault began at 0830 hours with helicopter reconnaissance and American artillery firing on the LZs. At 1030 hours Company B of the 7th cavalry landed unopposed at Landing Zone X-Ray. ...

• Word Count: 2373
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. ... The battle would last upwards of two hours and resulted in thirty-one Soviet troops killed in action (KIA), fourteen wounded in action (WIA) and an unknown number of Chinese casualties. ...

• Word Count: 1275
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietn...

• Word Count: 1324
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietn...

• Word Count: 1324
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The all news stations such as CNN would not arrive for over another decade, so news time devoted to the Vietnam War was usually limited to a half hour in the early evening. ... CBS and NBC did not have half hour evening newscasts until 1963 (Hallin 105). Until 1963, CBS and NBC both used fifteen-minute evening newscasts and ABC waited several more years before moving to the half hour format. ...

• Word Count: 1969
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION The main reason for the decline, and ultimate collapse, of the Soviet Union was the failure of the economic system. The need to improve economic performance led to wide-ranging changes in the economy and politics. The failure of the economic system was due to i...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

December 9, 1958, Robert Welch and eleven other men gathered in a meeting hall. They came from Oregon, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Massachusetts. He called upon these self proclaimed patriots to help him found a society of pro-American's known as the John Birch S...

• Word Count: 2226
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Power, Pressure, and Persuasion "Power is the ability to get another actor to do what it would not otherwise have done" (Goldstein, 73), this declaration is a accurate. To prove the accuracy of this definition this paper will define power, examine the natural state of man, and draw on the cold ...

• Word Count: 1392
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Communism is a political theory about leading a society to equality. The term "communism" is ambiguous because the world can argue whether it is good or evil. At one point, communism was vastly powerful and advocated by many people in poverty. However, America feared this political view because thei...

• Word Count: 1564
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The Moment the War Comes Home After landing troops on the battlefield of South Vietnam with huge amounts of war expenses, Washington D.C. incessantly acclaimed for a liberal democracy in this small Asian country. However, that illusion was quickly shattered by hard facts: slaughters, piled-up bod...

• Word Count: 1705
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected President, and the first Roman Catholic. Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as President. He had a worldwide influence and his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis m...

• Word Count: 1882
• Approx Pages: 8

The most characteristic feature of the Cold War, indeed the very reason behind the name, is that superpowers were afraid of the potential consequences between them, as epitomized by the fear of nuclear Armageddon.  As a result, both sides were dedicated to fighting the battle through proxies rather...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of t...

• Word Count: 2184
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

President Truman had decided to commit US air and naval forces to defense of Korea was withheld from the American public for twelve hours, Truman knew he needed political support for entering the war (Goulden 84). ...

• Word Count: 2254
• Approx Pages: 9
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"How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they're forever banned? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. Yes, ho...

• Word Count: 2300
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School