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End The War South Vietnam
838 wordsEntering the executive office in 1969, Richard Milhaus Nixon would have to "pick up the slack" of his predecessor Lyndon Johnson who had left office while the Vietnam War was still waging on. Expected to be the "peaceful-president", Nixon was visualized by many Americans as being the one who would put an end to the war in Southeast Asia and bring American troops home. With Henry A. Kissinger as his most trusted foreign policy adviser, Nixon redefined the American role in the world, suggesting li...
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Arab Israeli Conflict Six Day War
2,012 wordsInternational Effects of the Yom Kippur War The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 was an armed conflict between Israel and the Arab countries of Egypt and Syria, fought during the month of October 1973. Egypt and Syria initiated the conflict to regain territories that Israel had occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967. Although both sides suffered heavy losses during the 1973 war, Israel retained control of the territories. Because the conflict began on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur and took place duri...
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Kissinger And Metternich Revolution And War Disorder
958 wordsHenry Kissinger, Secretary of State during the Nixon administration, sculpted his statesmanship from the realistic ideals of Prince Klemens von Metternich, who served as the Minister of Austrian Affairs nearly 160 years earlier. Although Kissinger has denied fashioning his ideas after Metternich, he believed the following to be true: legitimacy is one of the most important factors regarding revolution and war, and that disorder is far worse than injustice. Revolution, by definition, is a dramati...
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Pentagon Papers Richard Nixon
999 wordsWhitewater vs. Watergate. Both are political sandals that have rocked the nation. As Watergate unraveled, many of Nixon's dirty tactics were learned, including assorted lists of enemies (a number of which became targets of IRS tax audits), wiretapping, political sabotage, burglary, blackballing, and smear campaigns. Similarly, as Whitewater unfolded, the scandal appeared to involve more than just an illegal loan. It touched on possible hush money paid to witnesses and includes the acquisition of...
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The Causes Of Cold War Post Revisionist
1,521 wordsThis is from AP history and bear with me because some of the stuff got a little screwed up in transit. : -) Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signified, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold but not clothed. There was never a war that this idea can be more correct applied to than the Cold War. According to noted author and Cold War historian Walter Lippman, the Cold War can be defined...
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American Involvement In The Vietnam War
2,018 words... ops had gone home on leave, and U. S. troops were on stand-down in many areas. Over 85, 000 NLF soldiers simultaneously struck at almost every Major City and provincial capital across South Vietnam, sending their defenders reeling. The U. S. Embassy in Saigon, previously thought to be invulnerable, was taken over by the NLF, and held for eight hours before U. S. forces could retake the complex. It took three weeks for U. S. troops to dislodge 1000 NLF fighters from Saigon. During the Tet Off...
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Human Rights White House
1,302 wordsThe mix of economic sabotage, political propaganda and army persuasion worked. Allende found himself confronted by growing social chaos and soaring inflation. At every turn, his policies encountered well-funded adversaries. On September 11, 1973, amid the mounting chaos, Chiles military struck. In a classic coup data, the army seized control of strategic sites throughout the country and cornered Allende in his presidential offices. He died in a shootout, apparently shooting himself in the head t...
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U S Government Secretary Of State
979 wordsIn the beginning of 70 s the most tragic event in the history of Chile took place. In the countrys capital Santiago machine gunfire opened and the rebellion had begun. In the United States such events were supported by Nixon's administration, since it was a positive outcome of operations of intelligence services. Declassified U. S. government records shed light on corners of the story that previously had been suspected, but not proven. The documents describe how an angry Nixon demanded a coup, i...
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Third World Countries U S Banks
2,204 wordsThird World Debt The overwhelming debt burdens of poor countries are a major contributor to the crisis that grips the economies of most developing countries today. For the 41 most heavily indebted poor countries, total external debt rose from $ 55 billion in 1980 to $ 215 billion by 1995. (Rich, p. 189) Debt has continued to climb in most countries. African governments alone now have $ 350 billion of foreign debt and they have to spend two-fifths of their revenues to service it. As a result, gov...
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Nuclear Arms Race World War Ii
1,876 wordsDr. Strangelove vs. WWII The truth is bad enough - but nowhere near as bad as you probably think. The truth will do away with a lot of silly ideas, a lot of completely wrong notions, which millions of people now believe about the atomic bomb. These ideas could easily cause great panic. And right now the possibility of panic is one of the best weapons any enemy could use against us. " (Gerstell, How to Survive an Atomic Bomb, p. 1) The World War II has taken lives of millions of people. It produc...
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Henry Kissinger Northern Vietnam
813 wordsNixon Administration Richard Nixon was the thirty seventh president of the United States of America who with the help of various shifts and his persistence in 1968 has won presidential elections though he did it with very small advantage. The first year of presidency has lit up with shine of lunar landing which was made on July, 21, 1969 by astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin on a spacecraft "Apollo" and which has strengthened the undermined confidence of the nation. But an essential problem of the ...
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Chile 1970 1974 Part 1
1,733 wordsChile (1970 - 1974) In the beginning of 70 s the most tragic event in the history of Chile took place. In the countrys capital Santiago machine gunfire opened and the rebellion had begun. In the United States such events were supported by Nixon's administration, since it was a positive outcome of operations of intelligence services. Declassified U. S. government records shed light on corners of the story that previously had been suspected, but not proven. The documents describe how an angry Nixo...
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National Security Council U S Embassy
1,745 words... area that has been traditionally accepted as the U. S. backyard. (CIA, Briefing by Richard Helms for the National Security Council, 1970) Covert funds were passed into Chilean congressional campaigns; CIA agents stayed close to displeased Chilean military officers; to keep the military on edge, the CIA planted false propaganda suggesting that the Chilean left planned to take control of the armed forces. The CIA also secretly spent $ 1. 5 million as bribes into one of Chiles leading newspaper...
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Soviet Union Soviet Premier
938 wordsReagan's Change toward D? tente When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, he held a firm belief that d? tente should be abandoned and the problems of Communism be faced head on by his foreign policy. By the end of his second term as president, Reagan and his term in office would be remembered for furthering d? tente and influencing the peaceful collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991. Reagan's diplomatic strategy ultimately led to this end, but it was not inevitable. Tensi...
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