However, the Vietnam War failed to provide the same stories of struggle and bravery that made films about World War I and World War II successful because the conflict lacked clear objectives and easily identified enemies. Therefore, Hollywood directors used myths to create dramatic constructions of the realities of the Vietnam War that moved audiences" emotions. ... Although not completely inaccurate, noble-grunt films can manipulate the viewers understanding of the Vietnam War by displaying its history as an emotional drama. ... Perhaps the best example of a Vietnam War film that utilizes m...

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Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... President Eisenhower had been sending aid to South Vietnam and helped them create the Army Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. The Vietnam conflict only became a larger issue when a civil war broke out in Laos, We needed to find out how serious this problem was so we sent vice president Johnson to Vietnam to assess the issue. ...

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Most general books and texts on the Vietnam War (including Moss' Vietnam, An American Ordeal, Fourth Edition) gloss over, if not skip entirely, the role of women in Vietnam. ... Unlike the men who served in the U.S. military during the war, all women in Vietnam were volunteers since they were not subject to the draft. In a war that became less and less popular as the years went by, American women still were motivated to join the effort in Vietnam. ... Some of these women traveled in and out of Vietnam at various intervals during the war, while others had a more permanent presence in th...

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From 1965 until 1973, the United States of America was at war with the communist nation of North Vietnam. ... Americans now commonly believe that the war in Vietnam fueled the anti-government and anti-war movements that shocked American society and ultimately led to the United State's failure in Vietnam. ... Unfortunately, the negative image of the Vietnam War is greatly influenced by Hollywood's portrayal of the war. ... The Vietnam War began in the early 1950's between the French and the North Vietnamese. ... A crowd of civilians gathered at Kent State University to protest th...

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From the US viewpoint, it was thought that the War in Vietnam would be over and done with rather quickly. ... Rejection and exploitation of the Vietnam Veteran by the US caused the veterans to fight a different war, PTSD when they returned home. ... Many friendships were made during the Vietnam War and many sacrifices were made for friends, sometimes even the greatest sacrifice, death was made. ... One important fact about the Vietnam War was that it was America's first true integrated war. ... Even though over 58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War there were approximately 600,000 ...

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The Vietnam Revolution could apply be summarized as a war between communism and democracy. ... This war would be the Vietnam Revolution. ... Plans for a full scale war were now being made by the Allied forces defending South Vietnam. ... After the Vietnam War, this would be the last time in which a president would receive such personal ability to attack in a war in whatever form that president desired. ... Civilian critics of the war argued that the government of South Vietnam lacked political legitimacy, and that support for the war was immoral" (Edwards 264). ...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. ... This movie a positive insight to the war through the main character. ... It was the British who instigated and prolonged the war. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. ... In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. French troops were concentrated in fortresses in North Vietnam fighting a static war. ... French public opinion had long turned against the war and "sale guerre" ("dirty war") was on everyone's lips. ... VIETNAM AFTER THE FIRST INDO-CHINESE WAR The Geneva agreements of 1954, which divided Vietnam along 17th parallel (later known as...

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Beyond the Truong Son lie Vietnam's immediate neighbors, Laos and Cambodia. ... For one thousand years, Vietnam was part of China. ... Over the next several hundred years, rivalry with the Champa led to an almost constant state of war between the two countries. ... THE PEOPLES OF VIETNAM 8. ... Until the last years of the Vietnam War, more than eighty percent of the Vietnamese people lived on the land. ...

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Vietnam The Vietnam War was a war fought between 1964 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos, and in bombing runs over North Vietnam. ... Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a communist-led South Vietnamese guerrilla movement. ... Vietnam released figures in 1995 that a total of one million Vietnamese combatants and four million civilians were killed in the war. ... Australia lost almost 500 of the 47,000 troops they had deployed to Viet...

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The two regions in particular are Burma and Vietnam. ... This incident began the first of three Anglo-Burmese Wars. ... France has been involved with issues in Vietnam for a long period of time. ... After the Second World War, this party was named as the Socialist Party. ... This group was aligned with Japan during World War II. ...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. ... In the sixties the "Cold War" was heating up. ... Many feel that because of Kenn...

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To follow from that, what happened fifty- six years ago - the end of World War II. ... At the end of the Second World War, whole countries were left in disarray and destruction. ... Twenty years after the First World War had come to an end, realists has shown that the human element of greed and annihilation was too much for the Fourteen Points; World War 2 being the obvious and excruciatingly painful proof. ... Yet another irony both super powers did not want another war to start but they were plunging themselves into another war the Cold War. ... However the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, j...

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Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. One would establish strict limits on the President's power to take the country into war without specific authorization by Congress, in pursuance of the power to declare war given to the Congress by the Constitution. ... Then too, as with the undeclared war in Vietnam, this was a bi-partisan phenomenon. ... One difficulty was foreseeing the contingencies under which war may arise. ... Senators Church of Idaho and Case of New Jersey introduced a bill forbidding the use of any funds whatsoever ...

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Three times, however, in one century, the victims were so numerous and their trauma so documentable that society could not ignore their suffering - World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. ... Originally, young British soldiers had enlisted for the war with enthusiasm. ... (Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never even met your enemy. ... Worst of all, the war, as Robert Graves noted, seemed to have no end. ... He died in 1937 in a mental hospital where he had continued to write "war poetry" thinkin...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? ... Many historians say that slavery was the main issue of the Civil War. Although some historians think the war was the result of political screw-ups and that the issue of slavery did not cause the war. ... "Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Almost as many as the combined dead of all other wars from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War (Boritt 634)". ...

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Nixon campaigned with telling the public that he would end the Vietnam War. Nixon blamed President Johnson's actions of adding troops and criticized his decisions of escalating the war in Vietnam. ... Lots of platoons had parties in their bunkers and refused to fight. 3 Nixon became aware of the soldier's issues in Vietnam and looked for new ways to try to make peace and end the war with the North Vietnamese forces. ... The ARVN strategy at this time in the war was every man for himself. ... The public reacted with lots of anti-war demonstrations. ...

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Vietnam however, challenged that presumption. The Vietnam War had a deep impact on the United States' application of foreign policy, especially, relative to its relationship to the Russians. ... Additionally, the experience of Vietnam shattered the bipartisan accord on American foreign policy. ... This unlikely harmony among Congress had all but disintegrated consequent to Vietnam. The war cracked the campaign of ant-communism which had been the preeminent ideology throughout the cold war, and which was made clear in Kennedy's inaugural speech. ...

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"I"d have to say the Vietnam War definitely had a big impact on society. ... One example was the Tetan offensive of 1968 in Vietnam. ... "The 60's is the Vietnam War, and being in the army, I went to helicopters that didn't have anything on them to ones which have guns and can shoot missiles. With everything focused on Vietnam there were new tactics and advancements; we even copied the French a little bit by using H-21 helicopters, which are kind of like banana shaped helicopters. It would just have to be the Vietnam war that had to have the most impact on me." 10. ...

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In the 60's and 70's the Generals in Vietnam insisted war was the answer, whereas others insisted love was the answer. ... Over 180 songs were written in reaction to the Vietnam war alone. ... The civil rights movement and the escalating war were two major catalysts for social and musical protest. ... Next stop is Vietnam. ... John Lennon was hoping his celebrity status combined with a number of protests against the war would have an influence on how people proceeded with the war efforts. ...

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At the end of the Second World War, many political and international changes came about. ... As a result, the Cold War became a topic of much controversy and fear. ... The Vietnam War was a much-protested military move, producing the hippie movement and other cultural revolts. ... He worked here throughout the duration of the war. ... He became the most influential designer in the post-war scene. ...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... Differences between the former Allies after it was generally uniting them during the war aim, moved to another plane. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war. However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ...

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After the WWI formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. ... Nevertheless, the conscientious objectors were targeted in the Red Scare after the war. ... This split occurred when Europe entered the war. ... However, some of the more prominent American Socialists, strongly supported the war. ... After the war formally ended in 1918, all the groups which opposed the war came under fire. ...

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She wants to impact the world while also successfully implementing her own artistic expression, goals which are seen to fruition throughout the entirety of her creations, yet are especially prevalent in the Vietnam War Memorial as well as in her earthwork A Fold in the Field. ­ ... " Her initial work known as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which also happens to be her most well-known creation, began first as an idea for a final project inspired by an advertisement for a Vietnam War memorial design competition. ... The dates 1959 and 1973, the respective beginning and ending years of the...

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Although SEALs did not become famous until the Vietnam War, two teams were commissioned in 1962 by President Kennedy: SEAL Team One in the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy, and SEAL Team Two in the Atlantic Fleet (Simmons 1). ... In Vietnam, the SEALs lost 43 men killed in action. ... Since this was all happening during the Persian Gulf War, a Navy SEAL team on the U.S.S. ... During the last three weeks of Phase 1, students are taught the basics of what UDTs did during World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. ... In a war such as Vietnam, one thing the SEALs would do was booby tra...

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