Essays on Anti-Communist

Mao ruled China for the period from 1949 to 1976. During his leadership, Mao oversaw several initiatives that aimed to put across the progress of the country. Several of these revolutionary changes captured the attention of the media and received intensive debate from professionals and members of the Republic. Among the initiatives that received media attention is the five-year plan that was published in the first week of August 1955. The information in the extracts of the China Mainland Press indicated that the plan was drafted to happen between the years 1953 to 1957 (Pong, 2009). The five-year plan ...

The Cold War was a very interesting period in American history as it as much fought domestically and through negotiation of major institutions as much as it was a war in any traditional sense of the word. The Cold War in the United States was everywhere especially early between the end of World War II and 1960s. American society and culture negotiated with the Cold War in many different ways. It popped up as anxiety, fear and something that could actually work to change the country for the better. America’s anxieties with the Cold War were very prominently ...

Even though he left public life more than 40 years ago, Richard Nixon is still a controversial figure. He had a meteoric rise in politics, and an even steeper fall. Nixon was considered to be a complex and transitional politician (Miller Center of Public Affairs 19). He had a number of positive accomplishments during his presidency, especially in foreign policy, but his methods were often less than completely ethical.

Biography

Richard Milhous Nixon was born January 9, 1913, the second of five children, in Yorba Linda, CA, a small farming community (“Richard Nixon Biography” 1). His father was a failed ...

The Decline and Fall of Apartheid: National, Regional, and Global Factors

Introduction The struggle for independence in the Republic of South Africa was weakened by certain policies and directives that were passed on by the then ruling Afrikaans. Apartheid was the biggest obstacle that these freedom fighters were to face. It was characterized by racial segregation that gave preference to the white people while the black people were not viewed as equals. Racial segregation was seen in many other areas such as health care facilities, schools and places of work such as mines where the black people were forced to work. The Apartheid regime came to an end and allowed ...

This essay has been written by Name of Student of Class of Student of Name of College on Date of Submission of Assignment Introduction. First Indo-China war ended in 1954 through the Geneva Accord and same day marked the start of two independent territories of Vietnam called the North and South Vietnam. Both North and South Vietnam were divided by a line at 17th parallel. The communist Vietnam called the North Vietnam was declared as Democratic Republic of Vietnam having Hanoi as its capital whereas the Anti-communist South Vietnam was called the Republic of Vietnam with its capital at ...

We refer to the Cold War as the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the USSR in 1990. That is when two powerful countries emerged, one being the United States of America and the other being the communist USSR. So, when the end of militarization was expected, the American government presented the people with a new threat, claiming for many decades that another war was imminent. The USSR was presented as a new Hitler with expansionistic tendencies. This helped to justify American intervention abroad, like for example in Greece right after World War II and ...

Chapter 16 – World War II

Zinn begins this chapter by posing a series of questions. Was World War II a people’s war as it had been claimed at the time? Why did the US really enter the war? How much did the imperialist powers of the day differ from Nazi Germany in terms of racism?

Zinn’s views are extremely interesting, considering that even today, these are issues people hardly ever discuss or even learn. We learn at school that the American intervention was caused by Hitler’s atrocities and the extreme loss of human lives in Pearl Harbor, but never about the real motives ...

Japan and Germany

Japan and Germany Before World War 2, Japan and Germany had certain similarities in their foreign relations and domestic policies, which will be discussed in this paper. It is arguable why the two countries found themselves as allies together with Italy in world war two, but there is a great possibility that if the two countries had been neighbors, they would have fought each other because of their similar foreign policies. However, due to their distance between each other and their similar foreign policies, they were allies in the Second World War. This is because they found themselves fighting ...

The U.S’ government decision to wage war on Vietnam without a good plan of war involving clear-cut strategies and plans was one decision they poorly made. Therefore, it resulted to a prolonged Vietnam War and made the victory indeterminate for them (Yancey, 2001). The war was between the North Vietnam which was a communist state backed by other communist nations such as the Soviets and China, against the U.S, South Vietnam forces together with other anti-communist nations. People fought the war in North Vietnam. This war took place as a way to stop the spread of communism as the North Vietnam government fought ...

Abstract

The rapid growth of Christianity in Asia, including South Korea, is one of crucial trends in the modern development of different branches of modern Christianity (Jenkins 7). For a state the growth of a new religion means changes in different spheres of life, such as politics, social sphere, education and world outlook of the population. The assignment is aimed at exploring the role of Christianization and Christianity in Korean politics, social life, education and people’s dimension. Complex consideration of these spheres’ development with respect to the emergence and growth of Christianity in Korea is necessary to single out the role ...

This paper will focus on discussing one of the plays written by Tae Sok. Tae Sok is a popular playwright in Korea, mostly because of his orthodox and non-linear style of presenting a story, which is basically contrarian to the strategy that is often being implemented by Western playwrights. The focus of this paper will be on his play entitled Bicycle which he released and was published in 1983 . The story in Bicycle allegedly centered on one of the experiences Tae Sok had during the Korean War, particularly in his home village in Sochon. To be more specific, the plot and ...

Answer to Question 1

The novel-based movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers has featured an entirely outrageous concept in its storyline – the involvement of alien forces in the infiltration of a small fictional town of Santa Mira, California. The capability of the aliens to produce replicas of people through atomic-mutating giant plant pods have become the subject of fear among people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which they have sought all throughout to challenge. Turning people into empty replicas of their original selves, the alien forces have taken the form of “evil” that has taken over Santa Mira, erstwhile a peaceful and balanced town ( ...

- In what way did Dr. Martin King Luther King use non-violent protests in the Civil Rights Movement? At the staff retreat of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King talked about the dangers of violence. King said, “Violence has been the inseparable twin of materialism, the hallmark of its grandeur”, and he stood his ground against it on the basis that hate engenders violence. Hence, to curb hate and violence, King saw the importance of participating in peaceful protests no matter how unjust the situations they were in and how difficult it was for Black people to ...

Introduction

The Vietnamese War, fought from December 1956 up to April 1975, is one of the Cold War-era proxy wars fought in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Although, on paper, the war was fought between North and South Vietnam, allies of the two antagonists were also involved in the war. For example, North Vietnam was supported by its communist allies (such as China), while South Vietnam was supported by anti-communist allies (such as the United States and France). Up to date, there is no consensus about whether the war itself was necessary, and whether objectives of the war were achieved.

Background

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McCarthy & McCarthyism: An Introduction

In the 1950s, the senator from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy ventured to reveal the truth about communism attack in the USA. For about 4 years, McCarthy relentlessly tried to disclose the individuals who had been identified as communist agents in various government departments and posed huge security risks to the USA. In view of invasive Cold War tensions amongst USA and USSR, one should anticipate that Senator Joseph McCarthy’s crusade to unearth the truth regarding communist influence in the USA should be appreciated and praised from all and sundry. However, it did not happen. In contrast, McCarthy ...

Communism has catalyzed numerous wars in the history of the world with the Vietnam War being an explicit example. At the end of 1955, a cold war era was brewing due to the differences between the North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was communist and South Vietnam, anti-communist. The People’s Republic of China supported the northerners and the Southern Vietnam got their main support from The United States (Pious 85). The United States involvement was an attempt on their part to prevent the invasion of communism to South Vietnam. This is because they had a wider strategy of a non-communist country. ...

Paranoia is deeply entwined with the human psyche, and parallels can be seen across generations. This is made extremely clear with Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, written in 1953, which parallels the communist-hunting era, so characterized by Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy and his incessant search for communists, against the backdrop of the Salem Witch trials. There are indeed many parallels which can be made. In both the anti-communist atmosphere of the Cold War and the paranoia of ultra-religious Salem in 1692, there was an element of “the enemy is among us”. It was, to an extent, taken ...

Throughout the Cold War, from period of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan in 1947 through National Security Memorandum 68 in 1950, the U.S. was attempting to expand its system worldwide, at least outside the Soviet Bloc and China, wherever such expansion was possible. George Kennan’s doctrine of containment, formulated in the 1940s when he was head of the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department, was based on this analysis of a police state with insecure and paranoid leadership that expanded opportunistically rather than by a design for world conquest. As a realist, Kennan believed that the industrialized Western powers ...

- In an essay, explain the process of global decolonization starting with India in 1947. Discuss whether the great colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the Netherlands "gave" freedom to their colonial subjects - in this regard think of contrasting "struggles" like the French in Indochina and the British in West Africa. Describe the temporary approaches of the British and French to keep their colonies tied to them. Finally explain how the United States and the Cold War effected decolonization. In India, the nonviolent methods of Gandhi like the famous Salt March of 1930 were instrumental in ...

The Cold War of 1947 could be considered one of the most peaceful yet chaotic war in history as two of the most influential nations tried to dominate the other through tactical and superior means. With the threat of the Nazi-led Germany eliminated by a temporary alliance, the USSR and the US remained as the two superpowers in dominance in the globe. The USSR tried to solidify its dominance by creating the Eastern Bloc filled with satellite states supporting the country. The US aided in the recovery of the Western European countries through the Marshall Plan. Eventually the US created ...

The cold war between USA and USSR after the World War II had a deep-rooted impact on both the nations. The mutual distrust and suspicion reached an epic proportion. As a result, the NATO Treaty and the Warsaw Pact came into being. In America’s social life a propaganda was started to project USSR and the communists as the devils.

Cold war is described as the bitter relationship that grew between the capitalist USA and the socialist USSR after the World War II. No party was actually engaged in physical war because in that case nuclear weapons could cause massive destruction on ...

“Ultimately it was Australia’s dependence on the United States that led it into Vietnam” (Gregory Pemberton). Is this a correct analysis of Australian military involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s?

The Vietnam War or the Second Indochina War—a conflict between the North and South Vietnam to gain the ruling power over Vietnam—took place from 1962 to 1975 (The Cold Warrior). While the United States and other democratic countries supported South Vietnam, communist nations, People’s Republic of China and Soviet Union supported North Vietnam (The Cold Warrior). Several international events were responsible for the revolution that resulted in ...

Abstract

The Vietnam lasted for 30 years and had dire consequences for both, America as well as Vietnam. However, these consequences where not short lived. Some had long lasting effects on the society, economy, politics and foreign policy. The war led thousands of Americans to question their own countries approach towards conflicts on foreign shores as well the level of risk it takes when partaking in such wars. It also raised several questions on how these wars were conducted and the morality of troops sent to fight wars on foreign soil. The war changed the way people thought of their ...