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order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

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...

forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...

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...

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...

to the United States. II. The location and terrain were vastly different from one another, requiring different strategic maneuvers...

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

(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...

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

of Vietnam was born ("Earliest known history of Vietnam," 2007). In 1946, it was all agreed that Vietnam would be independent ("E...

was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

In this five page paper the writer explores the book by Tom Engelhardt from a personal perspective. Insight is provided as to how...

This paper contains five pages and discusses how the War of 1812, also the Napoleonic Wars, was relatively minor and that its limi...

In three pages this paper examines the Revolutionary War role of New Jersey and its crucial war 'turning point' involvement. Ther...

In twelve pages this paper examines the Cold War, US policy of containment, the presidential campaign of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower...

In four pages this paper examines the myths associated with the Second World War in an analysis of Michael C.C. Adams' The Best Wa...