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process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...
checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...
reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...
or hurt is as bad as joining with the abusers. A great deal of the damage thats done in society is done by those who only stand a...
Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
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...
of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
the Vietnam debacle, and, consequently overlook Johnsons achievements in Europe, which Schwartz feels "deserve consideration as on...
The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...
alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...
expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...
In short, Linds book presents the theory that the Vietnam War resulted from a complexity of geopolitical factors, factors that Lin...
serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...
This was a misplaced fear. Communism would fall on its own, and even if it did not, the idea that it would spread like a disease i...
immediate collapse of the Bao Dai government at the end of the war Ho Chi Minh took the reins in Vietnam. He headed up a coalitio...
as no one bothered to make sure that things would go well. In the end, the war was just stopped but there were no victories. Ther...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...
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 two powers for years to come (Elbaum, 2004). In April, Peng Zhen was purged and in the months coming, Mao and the PLA took s...
The welfare system and war handling by the United States and the changes that resulted from the Vietnam War are discussed in 5 pag...
In five pages this paper discusses how the Air Force and Army have employed aircraft in warfare with examples from the Vietnam and...
In 5 pages this paper examines Vietnam War vet Oliver Stone's films about the war Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. There are ...
In seven pages the Vietnam War is examined within the context of LBJ's role in its perpetuation and military escalation and the im...
In five pages this paper discusses how US culture was polarized as a result of the Vietnam War and considers the media's role. Fo...
In twenty two pages this paper examines the Vietnam War in an overview of various factors that contributed to its outcome. Fourte...