No period of time passes without leaving its mark on human history. It is uncommon‚ though‚ for a decade to be as transformative on a society as the 1970s – and closely related events in the 1960s and 1980s – were on the United States. The Vietnam war and the counterculture’s response reached their zenith. Environmentalism as a sociopolitical force found new and much stronger footing. The mobile phone and microprocessor‚ the foundations of large-scale modern telecommunications‚ were invented. However
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The Vietnam War The Vietnam War was a strung-out‚ vicious‚ and costly war that went on between the communist government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The Northern army was supported by Soviet Union‚ China‚ and other communist countries. The Southern army was supported by the United States of America‚ Australia‚ Thailand‚ and other anti-communist countries. During this time‚ the Cold War was also going on between the United States and the Soviet Union and just added on the intensity of the
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The Vietnam War which went from 1965 to 1975 involved America and its allies‚ including Australia‚ aiming to prevent South Vietnam from an invasion by the communist North Vietnaese. There were many key reasons for Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The Americans provided valuable support when they arrived at our aid during the WWII so Australia felt a responsibility to return a favour to the US to maintain healthy foreign relations. Australia also became implicated in the war due to the
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the front of the war from visuals of death to the destruction the war brought to her homeland. She is an advocate for democratic reform and her novels speak against the communist regime. The Vietnamese communist party expelled her for her protests and ordered that none of her books be published in Vietnam. She served prison time for her protests and later was allowed to travel to France where she lives in exile to this day. None of her work is allowed to be sold or read in Vietnam. The root of the
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Title: How did Fukushima change the World? Mission statement: Egy esetleges zéró nukleáris energia politika hatása Japán energia piacára I. Introduction Fukushima is a prefecture in the Tohoku region on the island of Honshu in Japan. On Friday 11 March 2011 the Great East Japan Earthquake hit the region with an epicentre 130 km away from the east cost of the island. The historic-high magnitude of 9.0 was followed by a major tsunami that inundated about 560 sq km and resulted in human death toll of
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CBA The Vietnam war was a very horrible. This war took place in Vietnam‚ Cambodia‚ and Laos. Viet Cong‚ against South Vietnam and its principal ally‚ the United States. This war was for because communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia. The Vietnam war went from November 1‚ 1955 to April 30‚ 1975. This conflict couldn’t have been avoided. More like South Vietnam could not have avoided it. The US could have avoided the Vietnam War. We could have avoided it by not helping South
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represent my decision and view on how merciless the Vietnam War was and the dropping public support for the war in the later years. I purposely portrayed the casket with colored American flag in the center of many colorless graves and dry tree to symbolize the public view of how pointless the war was to begin with. Many did not know of Vietnam until the war was escalated‚ when soldiers are brought back no one would pay respect and left as if they did something morally wrong to years of harsh criticism
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The Vietnam War was a conflict between the communist‚ North Vietnam and South Vietnam. In the wake of the Second World War western fears of a communist expansion throughout Asia were running high. The United States was concerned that if North Vietnam succeed and turned Vietnam into a communist state‚ neighboring countries were also likely to follow. As an ally of the United States and Australia’s involvement in South-East Asia Treaty Organization and the Australia - New Zealand - United States Security
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“huey”. It will include information on what the huey did in the Vietnam War‚ some heroic pilot stories‚ and what happened to it after the Vietnam War. The huey was the first helicopter to be used in combat and is still used in the military today along with the police forces‚ coast guard‚ hospitals‚ national guard‚ and civilian private aircraft. The huey’s design was made and started production in 1960 and was finished by 1962. In the Vietnam War‚ the huey was used for mainly troop carrying and medical
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events. Wilson has done this through inspiring the Vietnam War through his ideas.The wilson created idea that inspired the war was Moral Diplomacy. It was a concept that wilson used during his presidency that called for U.S to share it’s values to the world. The whole point of the war was to give vietnam the value of capitalism. If Woodrow Wilson never had the idea of Moral Diplomacy if he didn’t have that idea people would be like leave vietnam alone because before Wilson the U.S was isolationist
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