Essays on Vietnam War

The Vietnam War is one of the most controversial and complicated military actions in American history, a confluence of a number of factors that stemmed from post-World War II ideas about America’s place in the world, its relationship with Communism and the Soviet Union, and the increasing presence of the news media in the field of battle. In the Cold War following World War II, in which America turned its attention (and its weapons) to the cultural and ideological threat of Communism. However, the staggering defeats US military forces experienced, combined with the malaise and resistance provided by ...

The Tet Offensive took place on January 31, 1968. It was among the largest military movements during the Vietnam War that was launched by the Viet Cong forces and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the US, and their allies. This war was a series of unexpected attacks on the citizens, control centers and the military bases in South Vietnam. The speed of the attack and the amount of the violence that it carried almost caught the US and South Vietnamese forces off-guard (Ford 66). However, the next morning, when the collectivist operations began, the offensive had covered almost ...

“American Boys

directed by Joshua Seel and Edward Feuerherd; produced by Joshua Seel and Edward Feuerherd, Creation Films, in Heart of Darkness: Vietnam War Chronicles, 2 (London, England: Entertainment One Ltd., 2005), 42 mins”

Summary.

With the Cold War increasing, the United States solidified its approaches against any associates of the Soviet Union, and by 1955 President Dwight D. Eisenhower had vowed his firm backing to Diem and South Vietnam. With preparing and hardware from American military and police, Diem's security strengths took action against Viet Minh sympathizers in the south, whom he mockingly called Viet Cong (or Vietnamese Communist), capturing about ...

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The Impact of Insurgency Efforts During the Vietnam War 3 External Sponsors of Insurgency Movements 6 Conclusion 10

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Introduction Among the many lessons to be learned from the Vietnam War is that counterinsurgency efforts must be stopped, but it is growing increasingly difficult to do so. Fanatical individuals who are deeply devoted to their cause often head insurgent movements. Unless an equally fanatical force on the other side exists, the necessary division of labor between external sponsors and clients states in the prosecution of counterinsurgency simply cannot be met. The issue of insurgency is not unique to the United ...

Argumentative Essay

The American people have been proud of the U.S. Army for a long time, because it was able to protect them from the numerous international threats. Nowadays a large number of people are involved in the activity of the army. There are “1.1 million soldiers in the ranks and more than 400,000 civilians and contracted employees”. However there are critics that think that there is a very deep crisis in the civil-military relationship that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Particularly, the army has become strategically and militarily ineffective, and it is not neutral anymore. In ...

Q&A

The most important thing about the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 was its emphasis on strategic surprise. The surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur demonstrated that armies and military forces need to be vigilant and prepared even on religious holidays, and never let up for a second lest their enemies take advantage of their weaknesses. The Israeli Army learned that, despite being ambushed in a surprise attack, they were still able to defeat their Arab enemies in a conventional war; however, greater planning and vigilance would have to be maintained to avoid these surprises again.

How did the international security environment change in the period between 1989 and 2001?

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How was the My Lai Massacre reported by the U.S. media? 1680 words

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How did the United States media represent the My Lai Massacre? What did the incident look like in the American newspapers? I have chosen this topic because the importance of the media during the Vietnam War (particularly the My Lai) cannot be underrated. The U.S. media influence Americans’ perception of the event, as the primary information was reversed and many details were never revealed. Throughout the world history, many countries did the same thing in order to avoid panic and unneeded criticism. In this particular case, ...

Vietnamese War: Impact on American society

There are only a few episodes of modern history that have impacted the US American society severely. Other than Pearl Harbor and 9/11, it was the Vietnam War. The war lasted till 1975. Post WW-II the American society gradually has gathered an opinion that their nation was the most powerful, invincible, and morally supreme and it had to take the responsibility for the world. They felt that America had to ensure the world would not go the evil way. In addition to the Leaders, most US laity thought Communism to be an evil. If the US Americans of that ...

Light in August, Saint Maybe, and The Things They Carried

The literature contains unique expressions of life issues. In close view, many writers have written on various matters affecting humanity. Importantly, their writings have significantly inspired society's understanding and appreciation of life. Thus, the stories and accounts told from various perspectives help to draw lessons, ideas, and various themes from the actual life. Some of the novels recount of predicaments that people went through in life. This paper considers the theme of predicaments in three novels. The first is Light in August by William Faulkner, Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler, and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Put ...

The Vietnam War was costly, long, gruesome war fought between the pro communist North Vietnam and the US backed South Vietnam. During this war, a number of civilian were involved in the formulation of policies that had great implication on the war. Besides, there were military leaders whose ideas changed the course of the war. This paper discusses these leaders.John F. Kennedy Kennedy was the US president between 1961 and 1963. He signed US military and economic aid with South Vietnam in 1961. This treaty increased the US funding of military activities of South Vietnam. He also the number of ...

The U.S. Victory in Vietnam: Lost and Found

The Iraq war and its insurgency has been likened to Vietnam’s insurgency, the U.S. also faces an equal defeat. Contrarily, people in support of the Iraq war state that Vietnam and the U.S do not share any similarity with the defeat of the U.S. in the Vietnam War.

The U.S. is very dissimilar with Vietnam War, the U.S. won in 1973. It has been argued in two prisms: the Chinese Revolution has been likened to Indochina; the conflict was a Vietnamese Revolution and this was not a threat to the ...

A Presentation

My presentation today is about two well-known Australian poems which are both broadly anti-war in their overall message, but were written in different periods and use different poetic techniques to convey the poet’s emotions and thoughts. ‘The Trains’ by Judith Wright was written during the Second World War when the threat of a Japanese invasion of the north of Australia was seen as a real possibility. ‘Homecoming’ by Bruce Dawe was written in response to Australian involvement in the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 70s.

Each poem’s title gives no hint of its actual subject ...

In what ways did American progressivism/liberalism draw from and change previous elements of American political thought, starting with the Populists and continuing through the New Left? Are there tensions within this broad movement?

Over the past century, the US has seen the stage being set for modern liberalism. This has been done by the progressive assault on the binding constitutionalism which had been set by the founders. By pin pointing the exact drawbacks, the movers have been in a position to address a number of areas that needed to be addressed. To understand the metamorphosis, one should visualize the changes ...

Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” is a story about a platoon of soldiers caught in the commotion of the Vietnam War. Reading this story was enjoyable, but there were several things about it that concerned me. In a story about war, it is all but natural for the author and his characters to have to deal with death, and Tim O'Brien’s story is no different. Tim O'Brien has used various styles to write this story, and he has written it in a non-traditional format. Mainly, he has written this story in a limited omniscient, third person style. However, elements ...

Section I: progressive review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He died and why it Matters

It was anthropologist Mary Douglas who observed that Human is at heart, creatures of denial, they crave for stability especially when their notions are threatened, rearrange the way they conceive issues and deny the challenges. In her book, JFK and the unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matter, Douglas offers an incisive and searing diagnosis of the various ills that marked the death of once an American icon and human activist John F. Kennedy. In an articulate voice, the well known anthologist, advocate and writer in different universities offers a compressive scanning on the episodes that marked the termination ...

The United States, being a world power, has interests across the globe. These interests, along with the interests of their allies, put the U.S. in the position of safeguarding their concerns both far and near. These global interests include business partnerships and maintaining U.S. military presence in territories that require U.S. support. In effect, the U.S. has informally become the “policemen” of the world, adapting its foreign policy in order to protect those interests in the name of peace and democracy.

In the ...

This was a proxy war in the Cold War-era, which took place in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos between 1956 and 1975. It came after the First Indochina War and was a battle between North Vietnam that was backed by the China, Soviet Union, as well as other communist allies and the South Vietnam government that had the U.S. backup together with other anti-communist nations.

The Viet Cong, common front from South Vietnamese communist that was directed by the North, battled a guerrilla war against forces of anti-communism in the area. The North Vietnamese Army was involved in a more conventional battle, sometimes ...

Question 1

The U.S had a strained relationship with the South Vietnamese president. The U.S opposed Diem leadership since it supported nuclear war. In a very unlikely event, the U.S supported the corrupt regime to avoid Ho Chi Minh coming into power. Later on, the U.S government planned and supported a coup to bring the leadership of Diem to a downfall so that they could fight the emergence of the illegal National Liberation Front.

Question 2

Lyndon advocated for the end of poverty since he was unhappy by the population who lived in absolute poverty. As a result, he introduced the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which aimed ...

- Introduction

- The Vietnam War is known by many names. The most prominent of these is “The American War. It is the longest war that was ever fought by the Unites States of America on foreign soil. It spanned from November 1955 to April 1975; just over 17 years. The Vietnam War was overseen by four American Presidents; Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. The roots of the Vietnam War date all the way back to pre-World War II era. This paper answers crucial questions on the origin, execution, result and aftermath of the ...

All over my life, my interest in conducting a research about the Vietnam War has been intensive. Vietnam War was a long struggle between the nationalist forces who were attempting to unite Vietnam under the government of communism while the U.S was trying to inhibit the spread of communism in the country. The U.S lost the support of the public in the war and ever since the war ended, it has become a benchmark for the act that should never be repeated in all the future United States foreign conflicts. I commenced my research on this interesting topic at the start of ...

Beattie, K. (1998). The scar that binds: American culture and the Vietnam War. New York: New York University Press.

Daum, A. W., Gardner, L. C., & Mausbach, W. (2003). America, the Vietnam War, and the world: Comparative and international perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Hagopian, P. (2009). The Vietnam War in American memory: Veterans, memorials, and the politics of healing. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Hagopian, in his book, records the history of how the veterans and those who were seriously involved in the war, were affected. He recounts the ordeals that the veterans went through, and some of his assertions are direct interviews with the veterans. The veterans restate how they went through the ordeal, the harsh conditions they were subjected to, and the inhuman characters and governments, who handled them. According to them, it took long for them to heal because some were permanently affected physically. Today, many families in America still feel the same effects, especially having family members, who felt ...

Impact of Vietnam War on American Culture

- Although decades have passed since the occurance of the Vietnam war, the American culture, which was partly born as a result of this war, is celebrated today. - Body - The War changed the views of the American people on their constitutional rights, the media and the government. - The war created many stereotypes that referred the veterans as drug addicts, bitter, struggling to readjust in society and psychologically devastated. - The chemical weaponry that were used on the Vietnam vegetation had an adverse effect on the people in a way that even after three generations, ...

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 ...

Nixon was elected the president of United States of America 1968 on the promise that he would take a different approach to end the Vietnam War. Consequently, halting American engagement in Vietnam was his greatest challenge. Having known that Vietnam Wars was his greatest burden, Nixon explored diplomatic options that attracted positive public opinions. He orchestrated a peace talk that led to the withdrawal of US soldiers from Vietnam. This reduced the number of American casualties in the war. The war ended in 1974 when the South Vietnamese forces were defeated by the North Vietnamese troops (Young & Buzzanco, 2002).

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Abstract

This paper will reflect over the case of Dillon vs. Legg from 1968. It will reflect on how this case changed the zone of danger. It will also reflect on how this case relates to the mental health issue. It will reflect over some rudimentary critical thinking questions to help understand the importance of mental health during this time. Last, it will show why this is important throughout the paper.

Main Body

Dillon vs. Legg case serves as a reminder of the horror that emotional damage from trauma can cause. This case was about a defendant who hit a child as she legally walked ...

Kaiser, D. (2000) American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge, Boston, MA: Belknap Press.

This book explores the origins of the Vietnam War, with specific focus on the clash of the two ideologies of socialism and capitalism. The book makes an in depth look in the American society prior to the start of the war, the key individuals involved in the decision to engage in the military campaign and the horrors suffered during the war. The book makes an important deviation from the operation of the war to the growing resentment towards the government and its war machinery in Vietnam at home. It explains in detail the political situation as it changed ...

Holcombe, A. (2010). Politburo's Directive Issued on May 4, 1953, on Some Special Issues regarding Mass Mobilization. Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 243–247.

In this directive, the use of propaganda against the spread on capitalism and the defence of socialism are clearly shown in the directive.

Kaiser, D. (2000) American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge, Boston, MA: Belknap Press.

This book explores the origins of the Vietnam War, with specific focus on the clash of the two ideologies of socialism and capitalism. It looks into ...

Calloway, C. (1995). 'How to tell a true war story': Metafiction in The things they carried. Critique 36(4): 249.

In this article, O'Brien's work is examined as a piece of metafiction; the style and structure of the work frames the stories into epistemological tools with which to view the Vietnam war, life in America, gender issues and more through the lens of different viewpoints. The amount of autobiography found in many of the stories creates a metafictional link between O'Brien's experiences and the contents of these stories. O'Brien also notes unique ways to involve the reader in creating their own interpretations of the text - Calloway examines several places in the book where the author ...

John .F. Kennedy has been one of the most successful presidents of the United States. He was assassinated on 22nd November 1963. Even after 50 years of his assassination, there is a sense of grief for having lost a capable leader who had all the potential to change the future of not just the country but also the world. One event that would surely have not occurred is the blunder United States made in Vietnam War. Lyndon Johnson made a mistake of increasing the number of ground troops in Vietnam to fight the Chinese. [1] As a result, there was a huge loss ...

1) Japanese-American Internment Internment is the compulsory detention, relocation or other restrictions of the freedom of movement, adjustable by one belligerent for the located on its territory nationals of the other belligerent, or to nationals of the other belligerent, located in the occupied territory of the first belligerent or neutral state for military belligerents. Japanese-American Internment had place during the Second World War from the side of the USA toward, mainly, the Japanese citizens, located in the US (Harth). On February 19, 1942, the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the decree №9066, which allowed the military ...

Introduction

Social Workers are responsible for performing a large spectrum of jobs that range from giving support to people facing difficult situations, significant change or emotional stresses in their daily lives to diagnosing behavioral, mental or emotional health disorders in struggling individuals clinically. As a social worker, you need to help people cope with their situation, advocate for people in need and seek means of support and seek valuable resources for the people affected. The two articles that will form the research for this paper will be Victor Okeke’s – ‘Government And The Challenge Of Drug Abuse In The Country’ and Brian ...

The U.S., from its very inception having a penchant for land or real estate, subordinated the whole of continental United States by the end of 19th century. It turned towards the sea as its new area of expansion. The nation was now tempted to become the world power and politically dominant. The people perceived their intrusion into foreign territories as their moral obligation to propagate democracy in the entire length and breadth of the world. It came to be referred as neo-imperialism or new imperialism, and the Spanish-American War in the closing years of the 19th century is an example ...

[Client’s Name] Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried reads much like a list of physical items that the men of the Alpha Company carried during a tour in the Vietnam War, but at closer examination the short story is about much more than physical items. The Things They Carried blends fiction and non-fiction to detail the items American soldiers carried with them as they fight for their country – physical and emotional. Each member of the platoon carries something specific to their own state of mentality, physicality or beliefs. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries the memory of his ...

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The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien was born in the town of Austin, Minnesota, and moved to Worthington at the age of 10. He went to Macalester College and participated in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1970 as an infantry soldier. After the war, he completed graduation from Harvard University and worked as a reporter with The Washington Post for a short duration. He launched his literary career in 1973 with the publication of If I Die in a Combat Zone which established him as a leading writer on Vietnam issues. In the book “The Things They Carried, Tim O’ ...

Cherry Moraga gives an account to the Latin Americans, sharing their experience while living in America. In the poem “The Welder”, the poet talks about how the American culture and ideology have been assimilated by Latinos living in America. The Latinos in America have faced different immigration issues, depending on whether they are assimilated, or not. Moraga says that she is interested in the issue of blending and trying to make it a common element that is acceptable for all Americans. What she actually talks about is the issue of assimilation in terms of blending. If we examine her words, ...

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 ...

The year 2014 marks the 28th anniversary since the movie Platoon was first released. It is one of the most honored and best movies of all time. It was released on 24th December 1986. It was directed and written by Oliver Stone, while Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen were the people starring. Upon its release, it took moviegoers, critics, and audiences by surprise as it took home four academy awards including best director and best picture, Oscar awards in 1987. In 1997 and 2007, it appeared in top 100 films of all time in American Film Institute ...

Introduction

One of the longest wars that America has involved itself in was the Vietnam War. This war, which took place between 1959 and 1979, was a prolonged struggle between the United States and North Vietnamese nationalist forces who were trying to unite the country under a single communist government. Unlike many wars where America has emerged victorious, the nation was however defeated in this war and communism took over in Vietnam. Many Americans opposed the war and today, this war is often used as benchmark of what America ought not to do when it comes to foreign conflicts. In my efforts ...

Essay for Lesson 9: The Student Movement and German Terrorism

Introduction The post-Second World War period was a tumultuous time for Germany, as it entailed the division of the nation into two distinct governmental entities – West Germany and East Germany. As West Germany emerged as a bulwark against the Communist-led East Germany – backed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), it effectively allowed itself to be modeled by the United States (US) as the promoter of democracy in Western Europe. The Marshall Plan, which enabled West Germany to resurrect its status as an industrialized economy, became the cornerstone of US involvement in the nation and eventually throughout the rest ...

The formation of the student’s movement in Germany in the 1960s was occasioned by several reasons. One of the reasons is that West Germany, which was previously a communist, was against the activities that were being carried out by the United States in Vietnam. Of great concern was the Bombing of Vietnam in the infamous ‘Operation Rolling Thurder’, (Rinner 20). The U.S. involvement in this war therefore became a catalyst that resulted in active protests in Germany and in many communist nations. University students in West Germany came together to form a movement whose agenda was to advocate for peace and ...

Films are made to pottery some of the social issues in the societies. A film is defined as the components of motion pictures that are recorded with the camera. Since films depict some aspect of any culture, so it does not affect the cultures both in positive and negative way. Films are considered the best media to convey a social message. So most of the films these days show violence, and it has an adverse effect on society even on small children. Wars movies are the best examples of this. The more violence that is showed in movies, the more ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder is described as a mental disorder that is accessioned by traumatic events that might have threatened the safety of an individual, and therefore, the individual feels somehow helpless (Koren et al. 276). In most cases, PTSD is associated with soldiers who have served in major battles, as well as with persons who have experienced horrible situations in their life, for instance fatal accidents, violation of human rights for instance rape among others. According to Koren et al. (277), about 20% of Vietnam War veterans suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and/depression. However, it is worrying to note ...

The Things They carried by Tim O'Brien is a story regarding a soldier who takes part in the Vietnam War. O’Brien is the narrator. The story has various themes regarding the war and a bunch of soldiers of an American platoon. One of the dominant themes is death among the soldiers. In the introductory part of the narrative, the author provides a description of the major characters by describing the things that they carry. His description of the characters goes from the physical objects to emotional expressions. He states thus, “they carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die, grief, ...

Martin Luther King, Jr was an American activist, pastor, leader and humanitarian involved in the African American Civil Rights movement. Martin was a Christian and led his movements based on his Christian beliefs. He advanced civil rights without using any violent means or civil disobedience. King was opposed racial segregation, and in 1962, he led a struggle in Albany, Georgia, using nonviolent protests to ensure that the cries of the black people were heard. This protest attracted many people including the news coverage, and it was at this point, where he delivered his speech “I Have a Dream”. The speech made him a ...

Is there a significant difference in the employment rate of African American in Higher Education in California after the implementation of Affirmative Action?

Chapter 1 – Introduction and background to the problem

This paper attempts to provide an analysis of Affirmative Action in minority employment, specifically in relation to African Americans in the California higher education system by comparing the period 10 years before and 10 years after the implementation of Affirmative Action in higher education in the State of California. The paper argues that affirmative Action led to changes in the State of California structure including higher education and employment rate as compared to the period during the ...

Nowadays, the financial aid is a familiar and expected part of the international relations between countries all over the world. Interestingly, that before the Second World War there was no foreign aid at all. Today economies of many poor and developing countries are being funded with financial aid from different developed countries and international organizations (Lancaster, 2007). There has always been a controversy about the purpose of the financial aid, as it can reduce the poverty in the country and improve its economic situation, but, on the other hand, it can also strengthen the donor influence on the recipient (Lancaster, ...

In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in

Media Transformation, Research, Historical Events, and Technological Development Even before the 1980s, different media platforms thrived to disseminate information to the masses such as newspapers in circulation since the early 1990s, radio, and film among others. Nonetheless, during the early 1990s, there was little interest in studying media and its impact on people. Most scholars then dismissed the media as useless even after World War II when people demanded information about current events then (Douglas, 2008, p. 78). Other scholars who studied the media before highlighted the limited or less pronounced impact of media on people particularly when ...

War is always a complicated issue, particularly with regards to wars being fought in nations not directly involved in the conflict. Public opinion of their nation entering dramatic conflicts – risking the lives of their citizens and killing others – depends largely on cultural factors that can shift and change depending on history and context. While World War II was a largely well-supported conflict, given the attack on Pearl Harbor and the undisputed evil of the Nazis, the Vietnam War had a decidedly more complex reaction. These anxieties are also reflected in literature; Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five capitalizes on the Vietnam War tension experienced ...

The 1970s was a decade of the public’s disappointment with the government and its policies, domestic and foreign, social and economic. It was the time of counterculture and various movements and protests that followed the example of the civil rights movement. The most important topics for the American people were the distrust for the government after the long-lasting Vietnam War that weakened not only the United States, whose economic situation was already devastating, but other countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia and their neighbors; the Watergate scandal that made Americans doubt that the county is in fact a democratic one, the state ...

- Describe your thought on Brinksmanship. Brinksmanship is a word coined by Adlai Stevenson as he criticized philosophy with ‘going to the brink’ in one of his interviews with John Foster Dulles, a former secretary of State under the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower who is the 34th president of the United States. Brinksmanship is a strategy in which it aims to push through the dangerous events into the ‘brink’ of disaster to achieve a winning situation. Some examples of brinksmanship occurrence in world history are the threat of nuclear force during Cold War and the high stakes litigation. Forcing the ...

“The Lesson,” by Toni Code Bambera, is a story about children who live in a poor part of New York, and have lived in poverty all their lives. Several of them have become close friends; notably the narrator and “Sugar,” her best friend. A Mrs. Moore moves into the neighborhood and takes an interest in the lives of the children. She is childless herself, but has “been to college,” and she acts in what the children think is a pretty hoity-toity fashion. Mrs. Moore begins to design outings for the kids, and finally takes them by taxi to the huge F.A.O. Schwartz ...

Introduction

The Vietnam War will always be remembered throughout much of the history of the United States (US) as a mighty assertion by the nation of its status as a reckonable political and moral influence in the international community. Democracy has since been the driving force of the US in its pursuance of goals in the Asia-Pacific region – an area the nation sought to contain against communism by the former Soviet Union (USSR). Indochina, geopolitically adjacent to communist-led China through its location in mainland Asia, stands as perhaps the area in the Asia-Pacific region that is most affected by communism. Under the ...

Vietnam War

Vietnam War The Vietnam War is the most famous and significant US external affairs that will remain in the history of US. In essence, it is arguable whether US lost the war or to some extent; it won. Often than not, it appears that the US lost the war as it withdrew from the battlefield before achieving its agenda. The war had a significant economic, social and political impact on the people of US. The US government was overspending on this war; thousands of soldiers were being killed and protest and thus ‘no need of drama’ (O’Brien, 2014 p ...

The movements and protests that took place in 1960s played a vital role in shaping the modern social, political, legal, and economic status of the American people. The prolonged social inequality and injustices and the exposure of the American in the Vietnam War were some of the factors that influenced young Americans, mostly students and women stage protests in an attempt to reclaim the rights of the minority groups. The most influential movements that took place in 1960s and early 1970s include the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Vietnam war movements, the women’s movement, and the Environment movement among others. ...

Cold war is defined as an extreme pressure between USA and its allies and Soviet Union and its associates after the World War II and departure of the Soviet Union. United States used containment policy to stop the spread of communism overseas. This policy was a reaction to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to expand its community influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. The House of Un-American Activity Committee was monitoring the community to ensure there were no such things as being unpatriotic during Cold War. Vietnam War was between the years 1955-1975. In 1959, ...

- What is A? Why is it there? Why should we care?

The third-largest island in the world is shared by three countries. In Indonesia the island is known as Kalimantan, and that country claims the southern portion. Malaysia also has territory on Borneo, two provinces known as Sarawak and Sabah on the northwestern coast. Borneo contains a wealth of natural resources, including forest resources, minerals, petroleum, and a vast potential for hydro power on its rivers. Borneo is one of the wildest and most bio diverse places left on the planet. There are about 3,000 species of trees, ...

Contesting for a re-election is not as easy as it may sound but with appropriate strategies in place one can make it though. One ought to have plans that address growth of organizations bearing in mind that the voters are well informed and analytical on the previous term. Understanding the voters is fundamental to winning the re-elections. One needs to address the factors that voters consider vital in a political contestant. In the United States issues related to taxation, human rights, affirmative action and race is a key consideration in shaping voter's decisions on the most appropriate candidate. The contestant may be ...

Introduction

The First World War or the Great War was a remarkable event in the history of the humanity. It influenced and shaped our modern world to an extent like none else, and the reflections of today’s development traces its route back to the decisions taken during and post-World War I. No one had any idea about the huge armies that would be involved, the amount of ammunition that will be expended, and how many people would die. However, the role of Canada in the war is noteworthy, considering the fact that the nation decided to stand by the Britain’ ...

The movie “Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara”, is a documentary expressed through the viewpoint of U.S Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, who worked during Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. In the movie, McNamara describes the reasons for the Vietnam War, Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crises. Regarding the cold war, the movie expresses the domino theory, which explains that if a state in a country is ruled by communism, then the neighboring countries follow the domino effect. Throughout the movie, it is understandable that war occurs because of a conflict between two groups due to ...

Introduction

The Vietnam War took place between 1961 and 1975. The technology of helicopters goes back to the 20th century. The US army had acquired experience on the effectiveness using helicopters during the World War II. Mobility set the pace of the war. Time, policy, politics, and circumstances converged with technology and adequate funding to create the Vietnam War. The US army entered Vietnam in May 1965 to find they were fighting a different kind of war than that for which they had been trained. However, they did not enter blindly. There were a large number of army officers already serving in ...