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We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Book Report on Thomas Sanchez’s Mile Zero

to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

David Halberstam/The Best and the Brightest

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam War

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

Vietnam through a Cold War Lens

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

United States’ Involvement in the Vietnam War

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

Civil Disobedience in the 1960s

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

World War II Battle of Iwo Jima

the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...

Unlearned Lessons from the Vietnam War

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

The Years Leading Up To World War I

The years leading up to Word War I were full of clues...

Manifest Destiny: Exploration or Genocide?

the United States had a god-given right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific; that it was "manifest" (apparent) that it was ...

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 ...

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...

Why the West Is Losing the Wars in the Middle East

(Parker, 2005, p. 2). The result was that technological innovation "and the equally vital ability to respond to it, soon became an...

Overview: The Civil Rights Movement

This research paper presents an overview of the history of the civil rights movement. The major major events that characterize thi...

American Liberty, 1820-1877, Overview of Issues

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

Periods in Music History and Timeline of Events

This paper is comprised of two sections. The first section is speed sheet, khmuschtl.xlsx, which describe each period in western m...

Henri and Julia and World War I

much in love, and neither of them is going to stray from the marriage during their separation. Well also imagine that at the time ...

New York City Draft Riots of 1863

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

Stoessinger on Vietnam

(Kissinger 684). Rather than commit virtual genocide and lose the "soul of the United States," Johnson was finally forced to withd...

Presentation on the History of the US Army

his 12 slide PowerPoint presentation traces the history of the US army from the origins of the army through to the twenty-first ce...

War Beginning, Ending, and the Role of Politicians

In five pages this paper assesses the statement 'Politicians start wars, armies do not. Government end wars, generals do not' in ...

Germany's Military and Prussian Militarism

In five pages this report examines Germany's military in World War I and World War II and considers the role played by Prussian mi...

1st Example of Modern Warfare, the U.S. Civil War

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

Korean War and Its Impact

Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...

War and the Human Psyche Impact According to Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper considers how many of Hemingway's works are rooted in his own wartime experiences and observations as a c...

History Repeating Itself But Not Exactly

In a paper consisting of seven pages the ways in which history repeats itself especially in reference to war but throws in some su...

History of Detente from WWI to Nixon

In seven pages a detente history is presented from the First World War until the administration of President Richard M. Nixon. Th...

Battle of Dien Bien Phu Between the Vietminh and the French

In five pages this battle that brought an end to Europe's involvement in Vietnam is examined....

Irrevocable Consequences and Nuclear Destruction

In five pages this report discusses a nuclear war's result regarding radiation contamination and its ecological and biological con...