Names for the war Further information: Terminology of the Vietnam War Various names have been applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English. It has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict. As there have been several conflicts in Indochina‚ this particular conflict is known by the names of its primary protagonists to distinguish it from others.[56] In Vietnamese‚ the war is generally known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (Resistance War Against America)
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War Essay “War is unpredictable”. To an extent war is unpredictable‚ however the meaningless punishment and demoralising conduct is something that soldiers experience constantly throughout war. In Owen’s poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth” he diminishes the patriotism and heroism that is commonly associated with war and replaces it with depictions of the harsh punishment and perfidious death of youth in war. Correspondingly in his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” he extends the theme of unpatriotic behaviour
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The Mexican War is often regarded as one of the United State’s most controversial wars. The idea of Manifest Destiny was beginning to consume the minds of many Democratic Americans. They wished for the United States to expand their land to possess a continental control; it was believed that more land would mean furthered economical success. Meanwhile‚ the Whigs felt that the key to expanding the country was embracing the economical endeavors that were already being pursued. In order for the continent
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The Culture War The Culture War is a clash of ideas about what one believes to be true‚ and others with different view points. Some experiences‚ families‚ friends‚ education‚ and the media helped to form a belief system or what’s known as a World View. A World View determines where you stand in Culture War. Believe it or not‚ everyone has a world view. Your basic beliefs form your world view of things‚ placing you on one side of the world or another. For the past 150 years new ideas and discoveries
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War seems to be the most destructive and horrific type of human interaction. No other venue allows people to kill each other in such massive numbers or to cause such incredible and widespread suffering. Wars often take years to develop‚ can last for years longer‚ and the effects reverberate for decades if not centuries. If war is so awful‚ why do people continue to allow it to happen? Why don’t we simply eliminate it? Curiously‚ some people actually seem to like war. Armed combat is glorified
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I always perceived war to be glorious and honourable. However‚ as time passed by and change has come about‚ my thinking has also transformed. No longer is war the glorious thing it once represented to me. Instead‚ it has become a monstrosity‚ a miserable excuse for murder‚ monetary gain‚ bloodshed and a means of justifying pride in one’s country. Soldiers are just like the pawns of their governments in the war moved on the chessboard battle-fields; they think that it is glorious to die for one’s
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“The Korean War was essentially regional‚ but the superpowers made it personal and therefore‚ global.” Discuss. The Korean War‚ 1950 can be argued to be a civil war which was and later evolved to become a proxy war. Here‚ “regional” can be defined as the civil war between North and South Korea whereby the two had their own conflicting aims and ideology‚ “personal” can be defined as the proxy war between the two superpowers – USA and USSR where the objective and aims of the civil war between North
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simultaneously caught up in two civil wars during the 1860s. Even while contributing to the Union forces battling the Confederacy‚ Minnesota was also fighting an intense conflict between white settlers and the Dakota people. Newly ratified as a state‚ Minnesota’s local government made treaties with Native American tribes offering to buy their land. As the civil war progressed with Minnesota sending hundreds of men to battle‚ tension with the Dakota tribes increased. The Dakota War of 1862 played a large part
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any other in that it is susceptible to its external environment. Today’s situation recalls trends of 153 years ago‚ when the brutality of the civil war conflict spawned a revolution in the design and mass production of artificial limbs. Recognizing the alarming number of amputations resulting from combat‚ the U.S. government unveiled the "Great Civil War Benefaction‚" a commitment to provide prosthetics to all disabled veterans. With the lure of government support‚ entrepreneurs began competing for
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Iraq War‚ Unjust or Just On March 19th 2003‚ President George W Bush opened his address to the nation by saying “My fellow citizens‚ at this hour American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq‚ to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” (CNN) Bush’s address was the beginning of a costly and long war that resulted in hundreds of thousands of causalities and a hefty increase in national debt. As the U.S slowly recovers from the tragedies
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