Between the two largest nations on Watt‚ the Halogen Empire and the Fluorescent Republic. The average cost per soldier was 84 Watt Dollars per month. The war got to the point that just about 47 states had become a battleground. The expansion of outposts during the war was extensive as 19 million schools‚ Homes‚ Businesses churches and farms were transformed. The Fluorescent Republic’s military budget alone was 13 Billion watt dollars per year! Over 71‚000 support personal were employed during the
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AP Lang. and Comp. 19 February 2013 The Battle of Khe Sanh Khe Sanh‚ a plateau in the northwest corner of South Vietnam‚ was a U.S. Marine Corps base and airstrip. Located where North Vietnam‚ South Vietnam‚ and Laos came together‚ the Khe Sanh base was important for American forces‚ as it enabled troops to gather information about the traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. However‚ the Communists also admired the region around Khe Sanh‚ since it could act as an avenue into Southern Vietnam
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Soon after the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe‚ China became Communist in 1949. The Americans had always regarded China as their outpost in the East. A massive Communist stronghold had appeared. Furthermore‚ spies informed Truman that Stalin was using Cominform to help Communists win power in other parts of the world. Many believed the Domino Effect‚ where Communism spread from one country to another like wildfire. When South Korea was invaded in 1950‚ many thought that only military action would
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colonists and Great Britain‚ resulting in the American Revolution. Even though the Ohio Valley was made up of a lot of good farmland‚ the French weren’t as interested in the land as they were in the fur trade with the Indians. They wanted to set outposts along the Mississippi River
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brothers" of him. The Chinese recquired the Portuguese for having paid tribute‚ but the Portuguese refused to offer more tribute‚ so they were expelled from Guangzhou. The local Chinese officials allowed the Portuguese to settle in Macao and use it as an outpost from which they could trade with China‚ but direct trade between Europe anfd China remained limited. Qianlong served from 1736 to 1795‚ he brought China to its largest size‚ increased its wealth‚ and sponsored an increase in artistic production
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religious leaders and their roles‚ US Border Patrol and US citizens. Her intent is to open up a dialogue on US immigration policies and educate the American public on the devastating consequences of a hapless built dividing wall between two countries which are felt not only by the immigrants but by the people that live in and around the border. Rose illustrates the conflicts that everyday Americans citizens living on the border face in trying to help and solve border issues with their personal solutions
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The Seven Years’ War began in 1754 and ended 1763‚ It is called the Seven Years’ War because the main conflict occurred in the seven-year period from 1756 to 1763. Eventually the war involved most of the great powers of the time and affected regions Europe‚ North America‚ Central America‚ the West African coast‚ India‚ and the Philippines‚ for this reason it is often considered one of the first world wars (although obviously the War does not bear such a name – it is not referred to as World War I)
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Gallaghr’s Barbarians The aim of Susan Van Zanten Gallagher’s article‚ "Torture and the Novel: J.M. Coetzee’s ’Waiting for the Barbarians’" is to untangle further what the book Waiting for the Barbarians is saying about the human psyche and how the novel analyzes imperialism. By finding its fear on the issues about ethics and violence and discovering the bounds of human brutality‚ Waiting for the Barbarians tests humankind and imperialism in several ways. Offering a psychoanalytic debate of Waiting
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using Laos to build and developed critical supply route to South Vietnam and later to Cambodia. But the NVA wasn’t the only ones who had interest in Laos‚ Americans wanted to keep the first domino from fall and wanting to contain the Communism at the border of “Red China”. In Laos‚ the American C.I.A was conducting a secret war again the Communist‚ at the same times as the 15 long years of the Vietnam War. But they weren’t using American soldier in the conflict‚ they were training and supplying Hmong
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of the English settlements‚ acquiring over a million citizens in their empire by the seventeenth century. New Mexico was the most successful of the outposts built and was still expanding‚ it had a population of over 10‚000 non Indian residents. Once Spain realized other nations were beginning to settle in California they also started creating outposts of the empire further north. In the 1760 the began building trading communities along the Pacific coast. As the Spanish moved into California they spread
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