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Essays 31 - 60
The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...
Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...
expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...
Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...
For support, he look towards what he called the "silent majority" believing that they were really supporting his foreign policies,...
2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...
first and second worlds, or the free world and the communist bloc. Many equated the U.S. as a major force of the first world and...
but rather gives the reader the big picture in respect to what was occurring on either side and how the people felt about what was...
In nine pages this paper discusses the politics of Southeast Asia, Ho Chi Minh's Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and the US involv...
In eight pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the Vietnam War in an assessment of historical accuracy and the presentation ...
the commercialism introduced to the Vietnamese during the war, has brought about new economic and political goals. Oliver Stones ...
In three pages this essay considers a documentary on the Vietnam War and the impact of the infamous Tet Offensive. There is no bi...
watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...
A 18 page critique of this less than successful film. The author atributes the lack of success however to the poor distribution a...
causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...
(Tanenhaus, 1999). The struggle between the two countries was both strategic and ideological, with the "future governance of the i...
to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...
there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...
Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...
spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...
rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
In five pages the book Eagle's Talons The American Experience at War and article 'When Did the Sixties Happen? Searching for New...
In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...
to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...
supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...
the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...
the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...