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between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...

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...

free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

it" (Zelnick, 2005). There was also some dissent at this time, but it didnt come from protestors, but from professional military p...

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...

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

under French rule" (Vietnam, 2007). The French named the colony "Cochinchina" (Vietnam, 2007). It took them 16 more years to bring...

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...

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

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

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

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

(Vietnam, 2008). The President is elected from among the members of the National Assembly once every five years; the next presiden...

to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...

Some years later, Hofstede added a fifth dimension, that of Long-Term Orientation. LTO determines the degree to which a society em...

(Tanenhaus, 1999). The struggle between the two countries was both strategic and ideological, with the "future governance of the i...

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, t...

2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...

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

American values were the primary motivation of the U.S. participation in the southeast Asia conflict. Author Richard Slotkin expl...

This paper examines the issue of whether or not the film, Hamburger Hill, is an accurate depiction of the life of a soldier in the...

mission he will go berserk and get shot. Still, the show usually broached some touchy subjects, from officer corruption to cowardi...

Bien Phu ended French control of Indochina. (Anonymous PG). Ironically, French General Henri Navarre had wanted this batt...

pursued careers and got married and had children. The veterans of World War II settled down to were raise the children who were to...

In five pages this paper examines the First and Second World Wars and the wars in Korea and Vietnam in order to determine their so...