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Ho Chi Minh Gulf Of Tonkin
738 wordsIndochina is made up of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It was colonized by the French in the late 1800 's and given up in 1939. Japan took over Frances loss after that. After Japans defeat in 1945, Vietnam's patriot and communist, Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh declared Vietnam independent. After that, France came to claim their loss. The US supported France fearing the "Domino Theory" would take affect after in 1949 China fell to communism. In 1950, the US sent troops to South Korea to prevent the ...
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Cuban Missile Crisis World War Ii
1,036 wordsDuring the Truman administration, a containment policy was developed. The policy eventually became the central concept defining U. S. foreign policy in the Cold War. To contain Soviet Communism, President Harry Truman used American military and financial resources to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II. Under the Truman Doctrine, President Truman requested Congress for funds to build up Turkey and Greece, two countries that came under pressure from the Soviet Union. Truman stated that...
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Prisoners Of War Prisoner Of War
511 wordsthe war in Vietnam was mostly a helicopter and air war there were many jets and helicopters that had been shot down in the enemy controlled areas in the than that a survivor of a one of these crashes were captured they would become a prisoner of war or POW's Violations of the Geneva Convention occurred in the Vietnam War (1959 - 1975). Ill treatment of prisoners was brought to light by the Red Cross throughout the war. In September 1969 the North Vietnamese Red Cross declared that U. S. pilots, ...
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Anti War Movement Nixon Announced
1,380 words... honorable end" to the war. He let the Democrats, badly split over the war, tear themselves apart, further setting himself apart by running on a "Law and Order" campaign that blamed America's most visible, divisive problems on the liberal Democrats. Nixon's appeal to the "forgotten Americans, " who felt themselves ignored in the upheavals of the sixties, brought him a close victory over Hubert Humphrey. Upon election, Nixon pledged that he would bring America together, but his margin of victo...
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Spread Of Communism Domino Theory
1,306 words... ly a Communist, but that he put nationalism first and had no direct ties to the Soviet Union. He was not a tool of Communism, in fact, Ho was relentless in his pursuit of direct ties to the United States. Also, the Soviet Union was more anxious to pursue dtente and had no special concern for Southeast Asia. The Soviet Union would not even recognize the freedom and independence of Vietnam. They only recognized the state of Vietnam after the Chinese recognized them when the People's Republic o...
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Chinese Communist Party Prime Minister
1,055 wordsLeader and leading theorist of the Chinese communist revolution, born in the village of Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China, the son of a farmer. He graduated from Changsha teachers' training college, then worked at Beijing University, where he was influenced by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. He took a leading part in the May Fourth Movement, becoming a Marxist and a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (1921). During the first united front with the Guomindang (Nationalist Party), he concentrat...
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Dien Bien Phu Ho Chi Minh
1,312 wordsAs the founder of the Indo-Chinese Communist party in 1930 and president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969, Ho Chi Minh led the longest and most costly 20 th-century war against colonialism. His whole adult life was devoted to ending French and later, American domination of Vietnam. His goals were achieved in 1975, six years after his death, when the last Americans left South Vietnam. The Vietnamese communist has always claimed that Ho Chi Minh was the hero who gained independence for Vietnam f...
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Us Intervention In Vietnam War
1,226 wordsIt is said that the intervention of the United States can be explained using hegemonic war theory. They were to intervene so that their military would not be seen as incapable of fighting in this war, and to maintain their prestige as a super power. The involvement of the United States in this war was not only seen as a way to stop a war that was escalating but also to gain power and respect. The main goal was to put an end to the rise of communism portrayed by a dictator who skillfully manipula...
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Crimes Against Humanity World War Ii
1,620 wordsIn ancient times prisoners of war were usually treated without mercy. With Greeks, for example, it was common practice to kill the whole adult male population of a conquered state. The ancient Britons also killed their prisoners in a screwed up way. The Ottoman Turks executed 30, 000 Christian prisoners during the War of Candia. In Western Europe, however, as chivalry spread in late medieval times and the practice of sparing and ransoming prisoners was started. Over one hundred thousand people d...
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Ho Chi Minh Involvement In Vietnam
967 wordsDuring 1954 to 1965, America became more involved for several important reasons, the most important one is that America feared Vietnam would expand communism all over Asia. Throughout these years the USA could have retreat and stopped giving aid to South Vietnam, but didn't, as the Presidents wanted to maintain there stature of strength and not let Russia think they were weaker. From 1946 ahead the Vietminh organisation set-up and was led by, communist Ho Chi Minh. He fought seriously with the F...
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The Lost War Vietnam
1,850 wordsI can still imagine the powerful blasts echoing through my grandfathers mind as he dove for cover in one of our trenches. The year was 1972 and our great nation of Vietnam was at war with the Yankees, the United States. In the end it was a war that we won even though the Americans argue that it was the other way around. The war was not an easy one to win though. Thousands of lives were lost and millions more were impacted. It all began with the United States intervening in our political relation...
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Ho Chi Minh Bao Dai
1,359 words1945 Ho Chi Minh and his People's Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces and Japan transfers all power to Ho's Vietminh. President Roosevelt dies Making good on his threat to unleash .".. a rain of ruin the like of which has never been seen on earth... , " President Harry Truman authorizes the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan -- one on Hiroshima on August 6, and a second on Nagasaki on A...
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House Judiciary Committee Richard M Nixon
1,818 words... area, Nixon traveled to Italy, Spain, and Yugoslavia, and visited the United States Sixth Fleet, stationed in the area. The tour included meetings with NATO commanders, an audience with Pope Paul VI, and visits to England and Ireland. The change in administrations had little initial effect on the Vietnam peace talks being conducted in Paris. However, in June 1969 President Nixon announced that he would begin a phased withdrawal of American forces. The first contingent of some 25, 000 men ret...
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John F Kennedy Lyndon B Johnson
2,218 wordsVietnam era changes and how they affect us today A quarter of a century after the Fall of Saigon, Vietnam continues to exercise a powerful hold of the American psyche. No deployment of American troops abroad is considered without the infusion of the Vietnam question. No formulation of strategic policy can be completed without weighing the possibility of Vietnamization. Even the politics of a person cannot be discussed without taking into account his / her opinion on the Vietnam War. This obsessi...
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Ho Chi Minh U S Troops
1,282 wordsIn the late 1800 s a French missionary had raised a missionary force to help Nguyen Anh become Vietnam's emperor in hope that the new emperor would look favorably upon France as a trading partner. After this new bond was formed France fought for possession of Vietnamese land so they granted the French land in the Mekong Delta. France grew greedy and proceeded to fight for North Vietnam as well, but the North created the Vietminh to fight off the French and their influence (Karnow). The impositio...
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Ho Chi Minh U S Government
1,124 wordsVietnam today is a country on the eastern edge of the large Asian landmass known as Indochina. Before the Vietnam War many Americans did not know where it was located. When American troops finally came home, they sometimes found themselves still embattled. One of the most painful events in all of Americans history was the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was an unsuccessful effort by the United States and the South Vietnam to prevent the communists of North Vietnam from uniting with the South Vietna...
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Ho Chi Minh 38 Th Parallel
1,168 wordsThe Cold War was characterized by mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings by the United States and the Soviet Union. At times, these conditions increased the likelihood of a third world war. Elementary and Middle School books tell about the cold war being the struggle of the evil east against the democratic west. This leads students to believe that the cold war was one major battle, but really the cold war was made up of many smaller events. The United States accused the Soviet Union o...
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U S Troops Vietnam War
1,498 wordsLesson Learned: Vietnam and the Gulf War No new taxes. This is a quote that most all of us remember from the 1992 presidential election. Along with it we remember that there were new taxes during that presidents term in office. There are a myriad of promises made and things done in a presidential election year that have questionable motives as to whether they are done in the best interest of the people or in the interests of the presidential candidate. These hidden interests are one of the bigge...
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Richard M Nixon U S Military
1,438 wordsJohnson was born on Aug. 27, 1908, near Johnson City, Tex. , the eldest son of Sam Easy Johnson, Jr. , and Rebekah Baines Johnson. His father, a struggling farmer and cattle speculator in the hill country of Texas, provided only an uncertain income for his family. Politically active, Sam Johnson served five terms in the Texas legislature. His mother had varied cultural interests and placed high value on education; she was fiercely ambitious for her children. Johnson attended public schools in Jo...
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Corpus Christi John Kennedy
645 wordsLyndon Baines Johnson the 36 th President of the United States was born near Stonewall, Texas in 1908. He was the eldest of five children. His father had served on the Texas legislature five times. Although Johnson shared his father s interest in politics he went to college and began working on a school teaching career. He graduated with a degree in history and went on to teach at a high school in Houston. After two years he became interested in a political position and took the job of private s...
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