The United States entered the war to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. American leaders feared that Communist forces would gain control of Vietnam. They believed in the domino-theory which meant that if Vietnam fell into communism‚ it would drag other countries in Asia to communism. Vietnam had been split in half in 1954 after a long war of independence against the French since 1946. When the French were defeated in the battle of Diem Bien Phu they withdrew from Vietnam. After the
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"The Singapore identity was formed during the formative and momentous years of the island ’s participation between 1963 and 1965." Discuss. The years between 1963 and 1965 were particularly important for Singapore because it marked the transition of Singapore becoming a state of Malaysia and subsequently within a short span of 2 years broke away to gain her ultimate independence as a nation state. Both the merger and separation was to subsequently provide momentous impact on Singapore and the
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Assess the view that Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) had no choice but to send US troops to Vietnam in 1965. Word Count: 304 Word Count: 304 Hess argues that the threat of the USSR and Communism “left the US no choice but to stand up to the challenge posed by Vietnam”. Direct confrontation was impossible as the USSR was a nuclear power‚ therefore the only choice available was “a policy of containment”; previous success in Korea gives validity to this view. Hess states Vietnam was the centre of the “Domino Theory”
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Question: 1 Black Tuesday refers to a day in Bahamian history‚ April 27‚ 1965. The then-Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister of the Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling threw the Speaker’s Mace out of the House of Assembly window in protest against the unfair gerrymandering of constituency boundaries by the then ruling United Bahamian Party (UBP) government. Thursday the 16th day of April‚ 1965‚ around 3 o’clock in the afternoon‚ the draft order providing for the new constituency boundaries under
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also some praise between the time of 1945 and 1965 with the handling of African American rights. It would be more accurate to give praise to many campaigns and people between the times of 1945 and 1965 that would go on to help shape and improve the position of African Americans. Campaigns and cases such as the Brown case‚ Montgomery bus boycott‚ little rock campaign‚ and many more helped to improve the position of African Americans between 1945 and 1965. President Truman as a young man was undoubtedly
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Since the 19th century‚ law enforcement and punishment has developed rapidly into the justice system we rely on today. Obscure laws that had become irrelevant in an industrial and post-industrial era were fast being replaced‚ and despite its lack of existence at the beginning of the 1800’s‚ policing standards are‚ today‚ high. The necessity for this drastic change in approach to crime has stemmed from the needs of industrial Britain‚ and the increased awareness of the public‚ and government‚ and
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He is talkative. When writer asked Max Kelada whether he is English or not‚ his answer was very long. Instead of answering yes‚ he asked back the writer: "You don’t think I look like an American‚ do you?" but his main purpose is introducing about his human origination: "British to the backbone‚ that’s what I am". Not only said he like that but also took him out his pocket a passport and airily waved it under my nose. Even the writer also recognized that he is "chatty". "He talked of New York and
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social situation in South and North Vietnam. The origin‚ purpose‚ value and limitations of the two major sources: Vietnam: A History written by journalist Stanley Karnow‚ selected for its comprehensive analysis of the Vietnam War‚ and Rolling Thunder 1965: Anatomy of a Failure is written by Colonel Dennis M. Drew‚ selected for it in-depth analysis of the effectiveness of the Operation will be assessed in Section C. In Section D‚ an analysis will be provided to show how the Operation only fulfilled its
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The Lottery The community has no real knowledge of this ceremony. It seems ridiculous that a community would cling to such a barbaric tradition‚ especially when they don’t even know the correct way to do it. It becomes apparent this community is very weak-minded. Even the way they congregated at the lottery was done systematically in a sexist way. This community could be convinced to do anything. There are so many points in the story that show these people know nothing of the lottery’s history.
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Introduction Summary In 1965‚ Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment which mainly focused on the severity of the electric shock that a person would be willing to administer to another person based on the directions that were given by an authority figure (Milgram‚ 1965). The researchers who were apart of this study expected anyone who participated would go beyond 150 volts shock point. The “victim” stated they no longer wanted to participate in the experiment. In 1965‚ Milgram reported that this
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