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Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Civil Rights

In three pages this essay examines what may have been in terms of civil rights and the Vietnam War had JFK lived and also discusse...

1960s' Political and Social Movements and the Chicago Seven Trial

In seven pages this paper discusses the counterculture, Vietnam War protest, and student movements of the 1960s with the emphasis ...

1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

In 1968 the events that shook Chicago during the year 1968 including the raucous DNC with conflicts resulting from the war in Viet...

1945 to 1954 Involvement in Vietnam by the United States

ironic because Ho Chi Minh had turned to Communism because Western leaders would not hear his petition for Vietnamese self-determi...

Fighting the Vietnam War

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

Buddhism and the Impact of War

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

Vietnam, Indonesia, and Population Control

the children to do. Families moved to the cities and the transition was difficult. Still, this larger change resulted in a reduced...

The Vietnam War: The Problem with Escalation

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

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...

America's Wars

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

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

The U.S. Failure in Vietnam

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

Tone Setting Early 20th Century Conflicts

Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...

LBJ and His Foreign Policy by Alan Schwartz

the Vietnam debacle, and, consequently overlook Johnsons achievements in Europe, which Schwartz feels "deserve consideration as on...

Vietnam Explored in Argumentative, Narrative, and Expository Writing

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

The Vietnam War and the U.S. Defeat

In short, Linds book presents the theory that the Vietnam War resulted from a complexity of geopolitical factors, factors that Lin...

Explication of Neil Young's Song Ohio

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...

Social Hierarchy and Imperialism

process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...

Speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.

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...

Positive Perspective on the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

Song Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore and its Relevance

The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

US Could Not Justify Vietnam War Involvement

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...

WWW Sites on the Vietnam War

serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...

Vietnam and Misconceptions Regarding America' Involvement

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...

Warfare Turning Point, The Tet Offensive

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...

Buddhism and Postwar Vietnam

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...

1966 and 3 Important Events

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...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Post 1980s Foreign and Economic Development of Vietnam

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Richard Russell

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...