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1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

In 1968 the events that shook Chicago during the year 1968 including the raucous DNC with conflicts resulting from the war in Viet...

General William Westmoreland's Attrition Strategy During the Vietnam War

that followed (RCAH). While the United States was very much involved in the conflict, purportedly to keep peace in the world by ta...

Guerrilla Tactics and the Vietnam War

machine - guns, cannons, bombs. (Suter, 128). US intelligence prior to our involvement supplied the United States with a c...

US Foreign Policy and the Vietnam War

States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...

Bombing Policy of the United States During the Vietnam War

do with war strategy-which was a total failure of U.S. leadership. In the end, the bombing campaigns served to decimate land and v...

Documentary Film on the Impact of the Tet Offensive on the Vietnam War

In three pages this essay considers a documentary on the Vietnam War and the impact of the infamous Tet Offensive. There is no bi...

Antiwar Sentiments, Sociopolitical Thought, and the Vietnam War

7,000 men a month virtually indefinitely. Political cadres won support from, or at least neutralized, the Southern peasantry. Weak...

End of the Vietnam War

the U.S. Army off for two years with bows and arrows. (60) These lessons from history were largely ignored. American involvement...

Reality of the 'Unwinnable' Vietnam War

bags of whatever soldiers werent forever-missing P.O.W.s. I have learned from the readings that the war, in retrospect, was a terr...

Vietnam War's Gulf of Tonkin Incident

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how the Vietnam War was affected by the early Gulf of Tonkin battle. Ten sources are cited ...

Short Essays on American History

Short essays are included in this three page paper with on page being a letter that is written to Winston Churchill by Indian lead...

Vietnam in A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo

In this paper consisting of two pages Philip Caputo's memoir reflects the Vietnam War experience as a whole as it represents the s...

The Cold War Years of 1945 to 1963 on the American Homefront

In a paper consisting of five pages the effects of the Cold War in America are considered and include the atomic bombing of Hirosh...

America After Vietnam and Books by Gibson and Englehardt

In five pages this paper discusses Warrior Dreams by Gibson and The End of the Victory Culture by Englehardt in a consideration of...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

Martin Luther King Jr.: The Vietnam War 'Shot Down' the Great Society Envisioned by President Lyndon B. Johnson

actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...

The Vietnam War

Introduction The Vietnam War was a very chaotic time. Many argue that the war was never a war that could have been won by the Uni...

Questions on the New Left, Liberalism, and Vietnam Answered

under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...

Unlearned Lessons from the Vietnam War

American involvement in Vietnam has had a long and complex history. The question of why the US was...

Historical Accuracy, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now

In eight pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the Vietnam War in an assessment of historical accuracy and the presentation ...

US Loss in Vietnam

Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...

John M. Del Vecchio's The 13th Valley

to set the record straight. There were stories coming out claiming how bad American troops were in Vietnam. This infuriated me. ...

Reasons Why the US Suffered a Loss in Vietnam

against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

Symbolism in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

US Continued Involvement in the Vietnam War and the Decisions Responsible for this Involvement

two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....

Media Representation of the Vietnam War

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...

Vietnam War and Soldiers' Good Luck Charms

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

Changes Resulting from the Vietnam War

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

What Soldiers Experienced During the Vietnam War

end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...