The Vietnam War was also a part of the Cold War, and the ongoing 'war' between the US and the Soviet Union. Photographers have been a part of wars for decades however the Vietnam War was the first war that was shot and actually shown to the people at home on a daily basis. ... One of the main photojournalists in the Vietnam War was the American, Larry Burrows. ... The photojournalism throughout the Vietnam War was the main reason that people on the home front changed their opinion about the war. ... The Vietnam War was a part of the Cold War and was meant to be a short and easy win...

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It will provide some of the causes of the Cold War, the events in the early period and post Cold War, and lastly a contrast of the Cold War and the Post Cold War Worlds. ... Some other major events on the Cold War were such as the crisis at Cuba in 1962 and the Vietnam War. ... During the 60s, there was an extension of the cold war, which is the Vietnam War. North Vietnam's invasion of South Vietnam was a relatively small conflict in South Asia. ... Communist forces eventually conquered South Vietnam and proved that the United States was growing unsure of itself and its policies. ...

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Vietnam became a major defiance state that later helped to shape the outcome of the Cold War. ... The Vietnam War became a proxy between the United States, the Soviet Union and communist China. ... Not only did the USA fail to stop South Vietnam going Communist, but the heavy bombing of Vietnam's neighbors, Laos and Cambodia in secret CIA wars, actually helped the Communist forces in those countries to win support. ... The war sparked a series of social movements and criticism of Johnson's involvement in Vietnam. ... Since the United States suffered from 'Vietnam syndrome'...

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-Walter Cronkite The origins of the Cold War have been debated since 1945 when, at the end of World War II, the allied countries of Great Britain, The United States, and The Soviet Union had to decide how to map out the fate of Europe. ... As would be expected, the period during the 1960's and 1970's, the debate over the origins of the Cold War between traditionalists and revisionists was extremely argumentative and scathing: In the 1960's, debates generated by the cold war and the war in Vietnam brought the so-called cold war revisionist interpretation. ... After Vietnam had e...

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The model of contract work between the GDR and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) started first with an agreement in 19803. ... However, it was not only Vietnam's lower level of development which lead to the cooperation between both states, but also the political system was much less distinct as Vietnam was just in the process of recovering from its recent war with the USA. ... Another example of solidarity support between the GDR and SRV was the ''Vietnam-Aktion'' of the 1960s. ... For Vietnam the main area of interest laid in creating new jobs and obtaining new...

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America also limited the production of war machinery to try to reduce the war among the states. ... It is where the war began, and America wanted to avoid this war. ... Besides the government also won the heart of the citizens who in return termed the war as "The Good War," in reality some of the Americans were against the war. ... Effects of Cold War The cold war had several effects on human beings and the earth as a whole. ... Cold war also left a legacy of lost lives, about 100000 Americans died in the wars in Korea and Vietnam. ...

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However, the Vietnam War generated more debate and controversy than that of any other war in history between the great rival ideologies of communism and capitalism. ... Map showing who were supporting North Vietnam and South Vietnam in the Vietnam War, 1954). Therefore, the war that was fought in Vietnam prolonged more tension between USA and China, capitalism vs. communism. ... In the late 1960's the US got out of the Vietnam War, because of the loss of many American lives in the senseless conflict. ... Through both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, one can see that even though both US...

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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... Although, I personally wo...

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Nixon became president during one of the most controversial events in American history: Vietnam. ... A whole subculture, the hippy movement, had developed among teens opposed to the war. The first year he was president, Nixon created the Guam doctrine, which allowed him to remove ground troops from South Vietnam, but continue sending aid to the Asian nations fighting communism. ... In 1972 Nixon was forced to send America back into the war when he bombed North Vietnam. ... Virtually paralyzed, North Vietnam retreated; the war ended, but has left an immense scar on this nation and the others i...

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The crisis also highlighted the Cold War climate engulfing the globe. ... The Cold war climate of 1956 arguably shaped every aspect of the Suez Crisis. ... Nasser was aware that he was a pawn in a war of far greater proportions and therefore emphasized the Cold War aspect in this imperial, regional crisis. The Cold War context was extremely apparent in the distribution of arms to Egypt in 1955. ... Furthermore it is a prime example of Cold war behaviors and politics in order to gain geographic and cultural alliance, just as it was seen in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. ...

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The cold war was a long and tense time in American and European history. ... We were also tested in many ways: the Korean and Vietnam wars, the bloody wars for independence in countries such as Indonesia and Angola, and my current topic, the Cuban missile crisis. Of all the situations during the cold war, none of them ranks as high as the missile crisis, in its intensity and proximity. It's quite honestly the closest we got to an actual war in the cold war, and it tested the lines drawn by the two colliding superpowers of the world at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union. ......

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The Soviets utilized the threat of nuclear war and their sheer power to force Mao to back down, but it's quite possible that Mao and Brezhnev used Sun Tzu's tactics to deal with their mutual adversary: the United States. In Sun Tzu's Art of War first chapter, entitled Laying Plans, the eighteenth rule is as follows: all warfare is based on deception (Cantrell, 2003). ... This would be an opportune time, since the United States was heavily invested, both economically and politically, in the Vietnam conflict in 1969. ... Perhaps the Soviets and Chinese leaders were simply ut...

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Most would argue unfair taxes are what started the Revolutionary War. ... Before his presidency, the world had seen the triumph of Marxism in countries such as Angola and Nicaragua, with El Salvador seeming to follow them, America had been humiliated by the outcome of the Vietnam War in 1975, during the Jimmy Carter administration, 52 Americans in embassies had been captured, which resulted in the American military having low morale, low pay, outdated equipment, and little to no maintenance on what equipment they did have. ... President Reagan ended the Cold War. ... This promise was put to th...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. ... The war of 1812 was a depiction of English relentless cling to the land that it had lost. ... The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. ... Those at the conference also decided to meet recurrently after the conclusion of the war. ... Conflicts in both Korea and Vietnam have seen both American and British military powers fighting for the common cause of Containment fearing the overall Domino Effect of Communism that wa...

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JFK's pragmatic approach in dealing with the USSR led to the outcome of events related to the Cold War in the early 1960's. ... In hindsight Kennedy's caution during the crisis saved the United States from possible nuclear war, but the gamble he took was huge. ... In 1961 the North Vietnamese began developing a supply line through Laos into South Vietnam. ... In fairness to both sides, the Cold War was full of deceptions and misjudgments on both sides. ... The Cold War was essentially a game of "chicken-. ...

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Was occupied by Mongolia and suffered from Japanese expansion before World War the Second. ... In order to decrease the level of import government pay attention to the sea territories of 3 million square kilometers, on which also Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand are pretending. ...

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