By aiding the French, the U.S. thought they were helping their free-trade ally France fight communism, the Communist Party was very strong in France (Goldstein 3). The U.S. feared that Vietnam would fall to communism, and set-off the "domino effect- for other communist satellites in Indochina (McNamara 76). With weapons and training from Russia and China, the Viet Minh forced France to request help from the U.S. Fearing the spread of communism under Ho Chi Minh's regime, the U.S. was glad to offer France assistance, but even after the French humiliation at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the U.S. continued their involvement in Vietnam (Encarta "Vietnam War-). The Vietnam situation became another indirect way to confront communism, which was a perfect excuse to implement Kennedy's very aggressive policy of "Flexible Response- in the early 1960's, when the U.S. was eager to get into battle (Chant 9). After the French conceded defeat and were forced to withdraw by the Geneva Accords, the U.S. decided to escalate its involvement, believing the South Vietnamese wanted assistance in driving out communism. The U.S. knew of South Vietnam's weak military condition, and became more and more involved despite an uncooperative government. Suggestions the U.S. made were ignored, and the army avoided combat (Chant 38). Without complete involvement and a true desire to win, the guerrilla warfare of the Vietcong was too effective to face in a jungle setting, especially when most Vietcong soldiers were recruited in the South and had much support from the local civilians.
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. ...
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. ...
(10) Johnson's Vietnam mission report reflected the third tenet of postwar liberalism; to defend the freeworld from communist expansion. ... " (12) There were two political mistakes that Johnson made that ultimately stifled the Great Society. First, he "underestimated the expense of leading a two-front war in Vietnam" (Schulman 101). Johnson thought that he could fund the Great Society at home, as well as support the war against communism in Vietnam; later he regretted leaving the "lady he loved" for the war in Vietnam. ... (15) There were two differences between the war on poverty ...
Stalin thought that Hitler wouldn't risk an eastern war as well as a western; he thought that a war on two fronts was an idea that would never work. Stalin did not want to risk war with Germany, however he hoped to profit from the Western front battle if he could. ... This was a fatal mistake. ... Some say that overwhelming industrial power does not always lead to victory in the war. USA found this out 30 years later when it lost the Vietnam War. ...
Note from 1957 to the early 1970s each curve approximately doubled - meaning about the same ratio of debt was supporting national income growth, despite paying on old WW II debt and covering Korean and Vietnam wars. e's a representative chart of the many shown in the main National Debt Report, linked below. ... In just the 1990s real debt increased more than two times faster than growth of the total economy - - despite zero cold wars. ... Excerpts from WTZY interview: "During the Civil War we accumulated $2.8 billion worth of debt which the North owed mainly to the House o...
Later, the government's mysterious tests of concept aircraft led to a UFO epidemic; an era of outer space-related movies was born during the Cold War. ... Ripe with scandal and failure (Nixon, Vietnam, The Beatles split-up, etc.), this decade was peculiarly keen on possessed or demonic young children, as shown in The Exorcist (1973). ... Kramer typically traps them in elaborate mechanical devices that are set to murder the occupant unless a goal (symbolic of the character's mistakes in life) is accomplished. ...
Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the law, Caine picked up where The Fugitive (1963-67) left off and added a topical resonance with the televised resistance to the war in Vietnam by living like a pacifist, draft-dodger as well as fighting guerilla-style like a Viet Cong, and, in all respects, getting the better of his Anglo-American opponents, while being white himself. ... Rapid Fire...