This was Eisenhower's reason for sending soldiers and aid to South Vietnam. ... "It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1862.html). ... Overall, the Vietnam War was an unnecessary disaster but the war did have some positive outcomes. ... In fact, "the following year the federal government funded $1 billion to conduct research on the chemical poisoning of veterans"" (http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/The-Vietnam-War-and-Its-Impact-Lessons-and-legacies.html#b). The Vietnam War also showed that it is not always beneficial fo...

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The war in veitnam Only hours after Lyndon Johnson Had became president of the United States in 1963, his first words on the Vietnam War were "I am not going to lose Vietnam. ... Johnson believed that the key to success in the war in Vietnam was to frighten North Vietnam's leaders with the possibility of full-scale U.S. military intervention. ... By early 1967, the war wa! ... The Communist Party believed that the American people were growing war-weary and that they could humiliate Johnson and force the United States to hand over south Vietnam. ... e war. ...

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The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. ... 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. ... The war did not only affect the people in Vietnam but the people in the U.S. as well. ...

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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR Why was there a Vietnam War?? This question has been asked a lot of times since the war. ... The United States war in Vietnam had no beginning and it was a series of steps between 1950-1965 "in May 1950, President Harry S. ... The United States was now at War! Since there were so many starting points in the Vietnam War it complicated to say the causes of the U.S entry. ...

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Cook Reaction to Howard Zinn's Writing about Vietnam Zinn gives a complete overview of what happened. ... While reading this some of my thoughts of the entire Vietnam War changed. ... I think that one of the biggest problems our country had during the Vietnam War was the extreme lack of public support. ... They would rather go to jail then be put in the situations of the Vietnam War. ... If I was alive during the time of the Vietnam War I believe I would have been willing to go to war, until it got out of hand. ...

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Usually all Hollywood films adopt two main approaches in depicting the Vietnam War. ... Another perspective on Vietnam War is given by Bubba. ... Jenny, though she is not taking part in the Vietnam War sequence, represents completely different opinion towards the war. ... The Vietnam War is just another event or period of time for him. ... So there are four views of Vietnam War for audience to choose from. ...

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Reaction to Howard Zinn's Writing about Vietnam Zinn gives a complete overview of what happened. ... While reading this some of my thoughts of the entire Vietnam War changed. ... I think that one of the biggest problems our country had during the Vietnam War was the extreme lack of public support. ... They would rather go to jail then be put in the situations of the Vietnam War. ... If I was alive during the time of the Vietnam War I believe I would have been willing to go to war, until it got out of hand. ...

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Background information: Before The War The Vietnam War, well known and brought up a lot in today's world as a comparison to the current Iraq war. This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. ... They thought this because the Northern Vietnam was backed by China and Russia. ... Being that it was the Vietcong's homeland, they were in the better position to win this war. ... That was a bad time for Richard Nixon, having to control the Vietnam War that Johnson had started. ...

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The anti-Vietnam War movement brought demonstrations in New York City that attracted 25,000 marchers; within two years similar demonstrations drew several hundred thousand participants in Washington, D.C., London, and other European capitals. ... The legacy and meaning of the massive protests against the Vietnam War are still debated, but as you can probably see that the American movement against the Vietnam War was the most successful antiwar movement in U.S. history. A significant event that leads to the philosophical shift from liberalism to conservatism is the Vietnam War. The Vietnam W...

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In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. ... Small begins his outline of the anti-war movement with what he calls the "Americanization of the war" when the majority of Americans were supportive of action in Vietnam. ... The author argues, both from historical and from political perspectives, that the anti-war movement did in fact directly and in...

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The Tet Offensive was the turning point in the Vietnam War. ... The American public now despised the war more than ever and put pressure on President Johnson to evacuate the troops in Vietnam. ... The Tet offensive can be seen as the turning point which led to the end of the war. ... The loss of support for the war in the US was something that the Viet Cong needed. ... The Tet Offensive was undoubtedly the turning point in the Vietnam War. ...

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Ho Chi minh one of the most well known Vietnamese because of his leading role in the war between North and South Vietnam known as Vietnam war. ... Vietnam and the west coast of the island hainan. ... Eventually led to the escalation and official documentation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam National liberation front- it was formed in 1960 to effect the overthrow of south Vietnamese government and the reunification of north and south Vietnam. ... Nixon doctrine- Set in 1969 the point of this doctrine was that the major effort for deterrence of localized wars overseas. It must be made...

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The Nature of War War is part of God's world-order. ... The authors of these pieces give views and ideas expressed during the Vietnam War. ... Him and his platoon were in Vietnam, he wants to go to Paris so he can live his life without war. ... A man had just witnessed his generation and the younger generation fight in the Vietnam War. ... Kennedy, LBJ, and Nixon all forced the Vietnam War upon the American people. ...

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Such is the case with songs like "WAR" by Edwin Starr and "What's Going On?" ... "WAR," a song from the Vietnam Era depicts the growing anti-war sentiments to be found throughout the United States. ... Johnson broad military powers, the Vietnam War became Americanized with the first American combat troops arriving and the first continuous bombing of North Vietnam. ... Although many Americans supported this at the start of the war, as the fighting progressed it came to divide the United States as no other event had since the Civil War. This greatly affected the treatment of veterans r...

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He joined the army, was sent to Vietnam war, awarded the congressional medal awarded by president Nixon, and from spending time in a hospital from an injury, he picked up ping-pong. ... For example the Vietnam war was presented in the movie and the year was correct, 1963. ... When the war was taking place, you could almost feel the habitat of Vietnam it was so realistic. It was like it was actually taken from the war. ... The film showed the Vietnam war, and life at the time, so it made the viewer more aware of history. ...

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The first US combat troops arrived in Vietnam. By the end of the year, 190,000 American soldiers were in Vietnam to fight the war. My father was also one of these soldiers over in Vietnam. And here we are today in the year 2003 getting ready to go to war with Iraq. ...

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Three are the same that the war is bad. The first showing that no one knew why the war was going on not even the soldiers. ... To put the civil rights and the Vietnam war together is two very import things that tie into each other. ... The mane importance of the Vietnam war was this is the only war we lost completely. In Korea we compromised but in Vietnam we fought and lost and there was a great US casualty. ...

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He faced the major challenge - Vietnam War. ... However, his efforts to negotiate a compromise with North Vietnam were futile. The key challenge was to force North Vietnam to consider giving the South its independence. ... Nixon was determined not to be defined by the war. ... Many universities throughout the country led big demonstrations against the war. ...

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One thing that engulfed the President was the Vietnam War. ... Every decision he made regarding foreign and domestic policy was based on the war. ... He began to end the war slowly by withdrawing troops while assisting South Vietnam with the ability to defend it self. Meanwhile criticism from the anti-war movement and the media was increasingly growing with such things as the Cambodian incursion in 1970 and the bombing of North Vietnam in May and December of 1972. In January 1973 President Nixon ordered a halt to all offensive operations in North Vietnam after representatives from all side...

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Farber places the 1960s in proper historical context, which helps define this turbulent era as the logical extension and culmination of an earlier time that came after the Great Depression, World War II, and before Watergate and women's liberation. ... Around the mid-part, the Vietnam War and Civil rights are highly talked about. Also, there is discussion about President Johnson's Great Society (war on poverty, war on racism, Medicare, etc., which seemed to have good intentions, but rather unrealistic since poverty and racism seemed to continue even after the 1960s were long gone, ...

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They are expected to make the right decisions even though they personally don't want anything to do with the war, they are simply expected to rise to the occasion. ... Some times these situations occur before they even enter the war, such as in Tim O"Brien's short story, "On the Rainy River". ... He felt that he was "too good for this war, too smart, too compassionate, too everything" (41). ... He made the "right" choice to go and fight in the Vietnam war. ...

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Kennedy came from a wealthy well-known family and was a democratic, navy war-hero from Massachusetts. ... On January 12 Eisenhower and his advisers discussed reports on U.S. limited war, reaching the conclusion that "U.S. capabilities to conduct limited war are substantial and will show a further improvement on the basis of the 1962 budget as submitted." ... Another thing that JFK wanted to do was to avoid war in Vietnam and solve it peacefully, but he ended up sending soldiers to Vietnam which started a war. Also during his presidency there was a nuclear cold war between the U.S. and the Sovi...

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War was the topic of nearly all conversations and sex and drugs were on everyone's minds. While boogie fever swept dance floors, young men were sent off to die in a war that they could never win. ... One can be certain though that with her steadfast and determined way of thinking, she probably would have been protesting the Vietnam War from the very start and the right of nuclear power plants to be in operative mode. ... For example, many other wars were breaking out and many others were beginning to cool off. The Yom Kippur War began in 1973 while the Cold War was ceasing between the US,...

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In 1942 Richard Nixon joined the US Navy where he was a supply officer spending much time in the Southern Pacific during World War II. ... Kennedy on June 6, 1968 and there was the Vietnam War which was now at its peak. ... As Commander in Chief he helped with ending the Vietnam War by turning over responsibilities to the South Vietnamese soldiers thus allowing American troops to return home. ...

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In his first year of presidency it looked like the end of the war was near, but with this announcement the end of the war was not evident. ... How could the President make the decision to continue war when he promised to end it? ... Young students were upset because they were the ones being drafted and the sooner the war ended the less chance they had of seeing war. On Friday, May 1,1970 anti-war rallies began to take place at Kent State University. ... Most of the songs in the sixties and seventies were based on protest of the Vietnam war. ...

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