I"m against any war, and Vietnam War is no exception. ... Vietnam is the longest and most controversial war US fought. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara during the Vietnam era admits in his memoirs that Vietnam War was a mistake. ... Vietnam War proved to be extremely immoral and devastating. ... "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam". ...
The longest war in American history, (besides the Iraq War), and probably one of the most controversial events in American history as a whole, the Vietnam war divided our country and resulted in over 58,000 American causalities. The events of the Vietnam War expose a side of American history that is, put bluntly, quite unpleasant to look at considering the death and destruction left in the wake of our actions in Vietnam. ... During World War Two, the provinces of Vietnam had been colonized by the French who promised to protect Vietnam from the threat of a Japanese invasion. ... That is exactly...
The war was also a great hindrance on America's economic stature. 13 percent of all government spending by 1968 was on Vietnam. ... If they were not going to retreat from Vietnam they would most certainly lose. ... The population towards the end of the sixties started to become pacifists or at least disagreed with the Vietnam War. ... It could mean the end to the aid given by the USSR and China to Vietnam. ... This was not to mean the cold war was over, the nuclear arms race with the USSR continued, but it did mean that the Vietnam War was drawing to an end. ...
Moreover, the book also depicts the differences between the Vietnam War and other wars such as the World Wars, the Revolutionary war, and Civil War in the history of America. For instance, the Vietnam War is the most costly war ever fought in American history; more than the world wars and the civil war in which American soldiers fought. ... Nevertheless, in many ways the Vietnam War was different from other wars that American soldiers ever fought (O'Brien 17). ... The veterans of Vietnam War show a great deal of regret upon their return. ... The Vietnam War is thus more vivid among Ameri...
The award winning documentary, Hearts and Minds, portrays the attitudes of the opposing sides in the Vietnam War. ... " This is an excerpt from President Johnson's speech that he delivered during the midst of U.S involvement in the Vietnam War. ... " These men wanted to escape the pending war and didn't see the point in fighting in Vietnam; however they were looked at as cowards. ... When the Vietnam War was finally over, American soldiers were rudely welcomed home. "You let us go off to war saying yay team lets go fight Vietnam," said Sgt. ...
Vietnam, the heart and soul of teenage rebellion to the government for creating a draft that sent over the creative and intelligent youth, was a war that deemed to get rid of the political idea, communism, which spread as quick as the napalm that blazed over the serene green landscapes. ... The soldiers carried loneliness, uncertainty of the truth of war, and the heavy burden of physical and emotion weight; Tim O'Brien uses war related imagery to symbolize the vim of storytelling in his book "The Things They Carried". ... Cross and Martha were both a prime example of the diffi...
Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. ... Vietnam supports the theory of democratic peace. Vietnam is not a democratic nation and because of it is often involved in some form of conflict. During the Vietnam War one of the factors of the theory of democratic peace became prevalent. ... While the Vietnam War was taking place, there were several protests going on in the United States. ...
The committee gained tons of support when the United States entered the Cold War. ... In 1945, involvement in Vietnam by the United States was shaped by the Cold War. ... Stopping the spread of communism now fell on the North Vietnam to accept the division of Vietnam and that Diem becomes an effective leader, neither of which happened. South Vietnam couldn't defend themselves against the North and war was imminent thus drawing America even deeper into the strategic problem that was Vietnam (J. ... American involvement in Vietnam is still controversial till this day, many Americans believe...
-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...
In doing this he was advancing Vietnam's independence. ... Many historians such as David Kaiser (1998) proposed that Ho turned to communism subsequent to America's refusal to help him end French domination in Vietnam. After all, all of the other Nationalist parties in Vietnam prior to 1920 did not achieve their goal of overthrowing the French. ... Ho Chi Minh tried to create a socialist revolution in Vietnam aimed at the rising of the whole nation in order to overthrow the ruling French and become independent. ... William Duiker, Minh's biographer, a man who served in Saigon...
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...
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...
Revolutions, wars, and other struggles have been fought over his theories and concepts. ... This reason resulted in World War 1 and World War 2 and later the Cold War which had the largest impact on society. ... Many officials were forced to resign in the face of Cold War public opinion. ... Current Issues The current issue that still is in the new is Vietnam. Vietnam was a war fought and ended over 27 years ago. ...
He chronicles his experiences beginning with his working class background from his tour of duty in World War I, to tenure at Spelman College, and to his disposition of the Vietnam War. ... Being a veteran of World War I made him realize the horrors of war and why it occurs. ... After Japan he wrote a book to illustrate why the United States should withdraw from Vietnam immediately. Vietnam: The Logic of Withdraw was a deep critique questioning the morality of the war and questioning the motives of the Johnson administration. ... After the fall of Saigon in 1975, the war was over. ...
The five conflicts that show the most common action of the real reason why we invaded are: World War Two, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam, and Operation Iraq. ... The outcome of the Cold War was that Korea and Vietnam both gave into Communism, and wars were started because of this converting. ... The ideals of Communism spread to two third-world countries we both recognized as a threat, Korea and Vietnam. ... When the Cold War with Russia was going on we decided to not invade them because of the loss of lives due to ever growing capacity of both powers nuclear arsenal, but our President deci...
This was shown to be happening when at first China and the North Korea and then Vietnam became communist. ... While these are good examples the most obvious use of the policy was the Vietnam War in the late 1960's to 1970's in which forces from USA and Australia moved into South Vietnam to stop the spread of communism from the north. Since these wars communism has died out as a threat to the region. ... Another thing was that during the Vietnam War, a lot of it was televised back to Australian homes and the public saw the suffering of the Vietnamese and realised that they were not al...
With Eisenhower in office, cold war propaganda continues. ... The United States is growing rapidly along with the cold war. ... The U.S. got involved with Korea and Vietnam, both communist nations, and tried to occupy and convert them with new governments. ... Vietnam was a terrible mess and the only way to win the war was to occupation of the entire nation, many innocents were raped, tortured, murdered along with complete destruction of villages. ... Even Black soldiers who fought in the war suffered from segregation and racial tensions. ...
Communism have existed in many countries of the world such as Italy, East Germany, France, the Union Soviet, China, Cuba, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, North Korea, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam. ... Albanians did a hard and long war to win their independence, dealing with strong countries such as Italy and Germany, and when finally they archived this goal, a new, harder stage was going to be written through the pages of Albania's history: the Communism. ... After a bloody civil war, the nationalists were defeated, ...
Ten days after the end of World War II, Birch, who attained the rank of captain in the United States military, was taken as a prisoner of war by Chinese Communists. ... He told his fellow founders in Indianapolis that Communists were telling American GI's that war is a horrible act of violence. ... "We are living, in America today, in such a fool's paradise as the people of China lived in 20 years ago, as the people of Greece lived in a dozen years ago, as the people of North Vietnam lived in five years ago, and as the people of Iraq lived in only yesterday- (9). ... "We are los...
First of all, in terms of scale May 68 was the largest mass movement in France history, the French workers' movement, and the only general insurrection the overdeveloped world has known since World War II(Ross 4) There has never been a strike as powerful as May 68 that can be compared. ... It is the occurrence of May 68 is part of wave of the world-wide phenomenon which in part revolved around the issue of US involvement in Vietnam, May 68 is more than just another in a serious of student revolt in 1968 left. ... The "political awakening occasioned by the Algerian war" fomented "the birth...
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. ...
