The Cold War was a big arms race that was started after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR or modern day Russia). ... The United States, after World War II was trying to promote it democratic ideology to the entire world. The other superpower that benefited from World War II, the Soviet Union, tried to also spread their communist idea throughout Europe and the rest of the world. ... During World War II the Soviets and the US were fight together to stop another country from becoming a dominant power, but in life money, greed and power caused the two to start th...

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One of the most significant aspects of this war that made it differ from other wars throughout American history was the lack of support from the American people. ... A great deal of the anti-war movements were a result of the media's inaccurate portrayal of the war. ... The support for both World War I and II was much greater and showed to be more successful. ... Unfortunately, the negative image of the Vietnam War is greatly influenced by Hollywood's portrayal of the war. ... The peace movements began with the start of the war in 1964. ...

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The Vietnam war was fought in 1955 to 1975, and the Australian military fought in it from 1962 to 1973, and at the time, it was the longest that Australia had participated in all-out war. ... There are many contributing factors for the beginning of the Vietnam War which was all linked to the Cold War. The term ˜Cold War' refers to the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) which began after World War II through suspicions and hate between the two superpowers. ... Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given con...

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The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. ... This was a method to get people to war. ... In this campaign alone more bombs were dropped on North Vietnam than were used in the whole of World War II. ... The war also set up comparisons on wars for the future. ... The Vietnam War was a very controversial war, which lasted over a decade. ...

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During World War II, the United States Marine Corps' Navajo Code Talkers played a crucial role in keeping classified information coded and out of the hands of the enemies. ... The Navajo Code Talkers were needed during World War II due to the fact that the Japanese were excellent code breakers. ... The Code Talkers were also crucial to American victory during World War II by creating an unbreakable code for the Japanese to try to break. ... Even after World War II, the Navajo were still used in both the Korean War and Vietnam War but did not hold as crucial of a role as they did in World ...

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The founder of North Korea, Kim II Sung created the policy of juche, which means "self-reliance. " This ideology has been the main reason for North Korea's isolation from the rest of the world, and can also be the reason for many of its conflicts. ... North Korea is constantly in conflict with other nations, and was almost the reason for World War III, through the Korean War. ... The 38th parallel was an imaginary line chosen by the United States military following World War II. ... The United States entered the war because they feared it turning into a bigger war involving the takeover o...

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They have no sense of why they are even in this war; this is not their war to fight. ... The men understand that this war is real, people will die. ... The Vietnam War is unlike any war the United States of America has ever participated in. ... To them there is no great purpose in this war as in The Revolutionary War or World War II. ... Both show the war to be largely pointless, at least in the end. ...

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The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. ... From there, the war protest began. ... The Legislative composed of anti-war elective officials handcuffed the Executive by laws which progressively made President Nixon lose power in the war. ... The war also left behind a painful America. ... This war also ended the agreement with the foreign policy of the Cold War and made many Americans more concerned about other actions of their government oversea...

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It was not the first war to happen while television existed; both World War II and the Korean War were fought in the infant stages of television. ... By the time the Vietnam War escalated in the mid-1960s, television was ready to capture the war's images and most Americans were able to watch in their homes. ... As a result of this commentary, news coverage of the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1970 influenced the American public's opinion of the war effort. ... CBS was the news leader during the Vietnam War years. ... Before Tet, television journalists tended to describe the war as "our s...

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The Vietnam War was between the of 1957-1975. ... The Vietnam War was the longest war the United States had ever participated in. ... The Vietnamese Communists called the war "a war of national liberation." ... The war had many stages. ... During World War II, SRAO women were known as "donut dollies." ...

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Vietnam: The War We Should Have Won The Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. ... Before the War Even years before the war, Vietnam was a hotly disputed territory. Many countries had taken Vietnam over, and after World War II, Vietnam was in the hands of France. ... During World War II, the allies could depend on decimating the industry of their enemy, thus destroying its fighting power. ... Again going back to World War II, the massive armored assaults that won the war for the allies were useless in the dense jungle. ...

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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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This war would be the Vietnam Revolution. ... After World War II and The Korean Conflict, the last thing U.S. citizens wanted was for the government to send troops into Vietnam. ... In 1963 sides were beginning to form for the war. ... However, as they began to realize, this war was going be a long drawn out war. ... The growing anti-war movement alarmed the U.S. government, and eventually dictated the way the government ran the war. ...

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To follow from that, what happened fifty- six years ago - the end of World War II. ... A New World was the phoenix that emerged out of the ashes and smoke of World War II, a world where two large and colossal countries were bitter adversaries, both with nuclear weapons. ... West Germany historically Europe's industrial hub had to be rebuilt as a buffer against Soviet expansion; European fears of their World War II foe would lessen only if the Germans were integrated into a larger Europe. ... Prior to World War II, the US followed a policy of "isolationism", whereby the U.S refused to inte...

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This war was a war that they fought in their minds and in their hearts. ... The veterans of World War II spent weeks or in extreme cases even months with their respective units returning on ships, or planes from all over the world. ... One important fact about the Vietnam War was that it was America's first true integrated war. Women have fought in all of America's wars, even though it might have been unofficial in some of the earliest wars. ... In World War II and almost every other war in United States military history, our military was ...

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Prior to the 1960s, war films did well at the box-office. ... 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. ... However, a film can be an excellent movie in spite of its use of myths and inaccuracies about the war and the soldiers. ... Nick ultimately loses the game, metaphorically illustrating a death due to his experiences in the war. Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 release, Apocalypse Now, is another Vietnam War f...

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From the start of the war, the Vietminh had several major problems staring them in the face. ... In the war against the French, the Vietminh had many great advantages. ... The initial strategy planned by Ho Chi Minh and Vo Giap was to wage a long struggle that the French could not afford, much like the Allies tried to force upon the Germans in World War II. The Vietminh strategy for the Indochina War consisted of three stages. ... The French, who were used to the conventional battles of World War II, were unprepared for the guerrilla combat the Vietminh waged. ...

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Three years, one month, and two days later the war ended. ... This was also an ideological war. ... They war was also purchased with the blood of millions. ... Others felt that World War II was the last "good war" , and all other wars should be a source of shame. ... There is no such thing as a "good war", but there are some wars that have to be fought. ...

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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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Wars have been won. Wars have been lost. ... The Korean War can be divided into three phases. ... 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. ... The war left Afghanistan with severe political, economic, and ecological problems. ...

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Remember the episodes depicting Bugs and the gang in Word War I or World War II garb and situations? ... (Dudley & Bender, 1990, p. 76) The media, ever since being the puppet of the World War I and World War II government has since strived not only to cut the strings, but also to become the puppet master. ... The Vietnam War had very little support on the home front from the American public. What the press brought to the dinner table brought out the opposition to the war. ... In both cases support for the wars remained high despite mounting casualties.""...

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The war traced its origins to before the Cold War and even before World War II. ... Eisenhower's advisors after calculating the forces necessary to win the war were perceptive enough to convince him to keep the U.S. out of the Indochina war. ... A war of guerillas and insurgents, a war fought in ambushes not traditional combat. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prolonged United States involvement the number of people against it grew. ... The Vietnam War was the first war in the history of the United States to be fought on foreign and d...

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Philip Caputo, author of "A Rumor of War," was born in 1941. ... "A Rumor of War" is divided into three sections. ... Caputo and his fellow troops had wished and hoped for World War II type battles but instead learned to detect boobytraps and how to survive and make their way through the Vietnam jungles. ... He states in his book that, "this is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them." Caputo stated that his purpose of the book was just to inform American readers and all readers about the Vietnam War, including the whole ugly truth ...

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Both of these wars were expensive, the Korean War cost the US $67 billion and Vietnam cost $140 billion . ... The Americans took this act as a sign that Kim II Sung was utilising a communist take-over, thus in October of the same year America, with UN sanction, invaded North Korea. The Korean War became the first American war ever waged solely as an ideological war. ... The Korean War was extremely popular domestically because it was part of the Cold War. The Cold War was a result of World War Two, it caused the two ideologies, capitalism and communism to each struggle for control over ...

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They highlight the radical difference in opinion they had on the war. ... Other themes include anti-war, communism, and inhumanity. ... " Here, it is emphasized that our nation was power hungry to end all fighting after emerging victorious in World War II. ... They didn't lose loved ones to the war because their power probably protected their families from having to be involved in the war. ... World War II strengthened our economy and brought us out of the Great Depression. ...

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