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Ho Chi Minh Republic Of Vietnam
977 words
Do you know why the Viet Nam war started, or when
it really began? Well, it may surprise you to know
that the war actually began shortly after the end
of World War II. When WWII ended many countries
had taken control of smaller countries in Asia.
Vietnam was controlled by the French, but after
WWII Vietnam wanted its independence. France did
not want to give up its colonies because they
needed the extra income to help rebuild its
country after WWII. A man named Ho Chi Minh, who
declared their in...
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War In Vietnam Southeast Asia
1,432 words
... ever, Nixon faced the problem of emerging
social unrest, intensified by his policies in
Vietnam. Student activism was at an all time high
during his presidency and led to draft resistance
and campus protest. While Johnson reacted to these
tensions with a sense of betrayal, Nixon responded
with the covert determinism that characterized his
style. He initiated subversive efforts against
left wing organizations, and enlisted the aid of
the FBI and CIA to infiltrate such organizations.
He organi...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder World War Ii
2,009 words
It was not until World War I that specific
clinical syndromes came to be associated with
combat duty. In prior wars, it was assumed that
such casualties were merely manifestations of poor
discipline and cowardice. However, with the
protracted artillery barrages commonplace during
"The Great War, " the concept evolved that the
high air pressure of the exploding shells caused
actual physiological damage, precipitating the
numerous symptoms that were subsequently labeled
"shell shock. " By the end ...
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Ho Chi Minh Gulf Of Tonkin
1,724 words
Indochina 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
France's loss after that. After Japan's 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 th...
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Australias Involvement In The Vietnam War
1,191 words
Following the withdrawal of the last Australian
troops in 1972 more than 46000 Australian
personnel had served in Vietnam. This is out of a
population of approximately 11 million. Of these,
3000 were wounded and almost 500 were killed.
Australia became involved in Vietnam because of a
longstanding alliance with the USA since World War
2. It can be argued that Australias involvement in
the Vietnam War had its origins in the Cold War.
By 1945 the world had been divided between two
superpowers: the...
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American Involvement In The Vietnam War
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... 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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Ho Chi Minh Tet Offensive
1,273 words
France occupied all of Vietnam by 1884.
Independence was declared after World War II, but
the French continued to rule until 1954 when
communist forces under Ho Chi Minh, who took
control over the north, defeated them.
Eisenhower's advisers believed that Ho Chi Minh's
powerful communist-nationalist appeal might set
off a geographical chain reaction. As Ho Chi
Minh's government established itself in North
Vietnam, Eisenhower supported a noncommunist
government in South Vietnam and ordered covert ...
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John F Kennedy Lyndon B Johnson
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Vietnam 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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John F Kennedy North And South
1,471 words
email: all the catholic church in the vietnam war
The Catholic church played an instrumental role in
supporting the government of South Vietnam during
the Vietnamese War by feeding, clothing, and
providing spiritual support the Vietnamese people.
Historically the people of Vietnam were of a
Buddhist background, until the Roman Catholic
French missionaries introduced Catholicism inthe
1600 s into the early 1800 s. France decided to
take complete control of the country 1867, in part
because of rel...
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World War Ii U S Soldiers
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The Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful
periods in American history. Not only did the
greatest superpower in the world get bested by an
almost third-world nation, but we lost badly.
Perhaps this war could have been won, or even
prevented in the first place. The United States
could have and should have won this war, with a
combination of better weapons usage, better
tactics, and better support from their home
country. Before the War Even years before the war,
Vietnam was a hotly disputed t...
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Ho Chi Minh U S Government
1,124 words
Vietnam 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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Israeli Palestinian Conflict Second Punic War
3,630 words
Why do wars take place? Most people would think
that wars are launched because a country needs
more territory, or because a countrys borders are
threatened, or because of appeasement. The real
reason for war is that countries begin to feel
that their honor is threatened; they feel that
other nations are not giving them the worth and
dignity they deserve, and so they take to the
battlefield. On the Origins of War and the
Preservation of Peace, Dr. Kagan is a classical
scholar who hopes to get pol...
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U S Military Gulf Of Tonkin
1,280 words
Robert McNamara In Retrospect Random House New
York, 1995 Vietnam had long since been a place of
controversy, and where our government focused it?
s fear of communism for many years. Throughout the
Kennedy and Johnson administrations the government
maintained that the war between the Communist
north and the south can only be won by the South
Vietnamese, and that our military cannot win it
for them. It stressed that the fall of South
Vietnam to communism would threaten the rest of
the western wor...
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Lyndon B Johnson Military Personnel
1,241 words
JOHNSON S WAR In the 1950 s, the People s Republic
of China was becoming a growing concern for the
United States. China s expansion of power and
influence was potentially leading to the spread of
communism in the world, especially in Asia. The
United States wanted to keep their position in
Asia, so they decided to take a lead role in the
containment of China. The United States new
containment policy focused on South Vietnam. It
was here that the revolutionary Vietcong were
trying to overthrow th...
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Ho Chi Minh U S Troops
996 words
The Vietnam War was a military struggle starting
in 1959 and ending in 1975. It began as an attempt
by the Vietcong (Communist Guerrillas) to
overthrow the Southern Vietnam Government. This
research paper will discuss the Vietnam War, US
involvement in this war, and significant battles.
Following the surrender of Japan to the Allies in
August 1945, Vietminh guerrillas seized the
capital city of Hanoi and forced the abdication of
Emperor Bao Dai. On September 2 they declared
Vietnam to be indepen...
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U S Troops Vietnam War
1,498 words
Lesson 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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Tet Offensive Southeast Asia
755 words
The American conception of Vietnam as a cold war
battleground largely ignored the struggle for
social justice and national sovereignty occurring
within the country. After China became a communist
state in 1949, the stability of Japan became of
great importance to Washington, and Japanese
development required access to the markets and raw
materials of Southeast Asia. This apprehension, an
overestimation of American power, and an
underestimation of Vietnamese communist strength
locked all administ...
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Republic Of Vietnam Men And Women
1,829 words
John Clark Pratt Poetry that documents the
attitudes toward the Vietnam Was well as the
origins, development, and conduct of the was both
pervasive and significant. Although only a few
poems by French writers reflect that countrys
involvement, the Vietnamese tradition of poetic
expression produced a large body of work, both
personal and political, written by soldiers and
civilians of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
(DRV) and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN).
Unfortunately, except for the efforts...
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U S Troops Vietnam War
1,509 words
Political Control of the Military " 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 th...
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Operation Desert Storm Notre Dame
1,636 words
Political Control of the Military 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
biggest prob...
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