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    Cold War Part 2 Objectives • Evaluate the role and ideologies of Kennedy‚ Nixon‚ Khrushchev‚ Mao‚ Castro‚ and Ho. • Analyze the Vietnam War and its place in the broader Cold War. • Compare two proxy conflicts in two different regions. • Analyze the role of détente. • Analyze political developments in China (Great Leap Forward‚ Cultural Revolution) • Discuss the Sino-Soviet split. • Evaluate the process and effectiveness of various arms control regimes. •

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    Evaluate the effectiveness of the Strategies used by the opposing sides in the Second Indochina War (1965-1973). Why was it inevitable that the South (USA and Republic of Vietnam) would be defeated?It was inevitable that the USA and the Republic of Vietnam would be defeated in the Second Indochina war of 1965-1973 because of the effective strategies used by the North‚ with the use of Guerrilla warfare and the Ho Chin Minh trail. The south was defeated because their tactics like using conventional

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    Illegal Drug Use During the Vietnam War‚ American soldiers and officials used illegal drugs such as marijuana‚ heroin and opium to release stress from war and to kill the pain of an injury. The uses of narcotics were not strictly monitored and were sold at low prices increasing the amount of usage. The use of illicit drugs may have also resulted in some sexual assaults that led to children with mixed nationalities. Before the Americans came into Vietnam‚ drug laws were not well determined and people

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    “Teaching the Vietnam War makes one realize how the shape of a narrative determines‚ and is determined by‚ its content”. The Vietnam War was one of America’s most controversial wars. Many of its aspects are still plagued with great uncertainty. Those aspects of the Vietnam War are argued and debated about‚ they were argued during the time of the war and the arguing has continued. The Vietnam War was indeed a time of confusion. Why did the war start? What was the United States’ real reason for getting

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    The United States as a country never experienced an international war conflict that will significantly destroy their land‚ cities or cost lots of lives of innocent civilians. If the US was participating in the war it was usually under the label of rescuers. It is right that they helped to save lots of nations during the war times but sometimes we should ask was it necessary to expand the problem into the war such as Vietnam War? They wanted to protect democracy and yes‚ it is important but they were

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    country‚ was when Japan bombed Darwin and sunk a number of ships in Sydney‚ during World War 2. The question then has to be asked‚ why Australia has been involved in so many conflicts. A number of recent conflicts in this century come to mind‚ they include‚ The Boer War‚ World War One‚ World War Two and The Vietnam War. By far the conflict that drew the most outrage from Australian citizens was the Vietnam War. Australia has been drawn into these conflicts through a number of treaties and alliances

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    diplomatic relations with China and the Soviet Union‚ ended the draft for Vietnam‚ created Title IX‚ helped fund the war against cancer and started a distrust between the people of the United States and the president. Besides Watergate‚ Nixon his best known for diplomatic

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    is practically running all too fast through his childhood with his only and best friend Jenny. His mother taught him the way of life and leaves Forrest with the decision to choose his own destiny. Gump joins the army to fight in the service of the Vietnam battle. While enlisted he find new friends called Dan and Bubba‚ he wins lots of medals‚ helps create the smiley face‚ conducts a famous shrimp boat business‚ helps inspire several people to jog around the world‚ starts a pong-pong craze‚ donates

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    Vietnam is a country that extends about 1000 miles from Southern China and Southwards to the Gulf of Thailand. The country’s official language is Vietnamese‚ and its capital city is known as Hanoi. Vietnamese are newcomers to North American who still hold their culture‚ and they have traced their civilization back even further to a religion known as Phung-Nguyen that existed before 2000 B.C. This paper contains a discussion and also research about the Vietnam War or the so-called Vietnamese “boat

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    states‚ “I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told‚ the lives that were lost - and the shock when‚ twenty years after the war ended‚ former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.” On November 1‚1955‚ President Eisenhower deplays the Military Assistance Advisory Group to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (Cuny 1955). This marks the beginning of the United States involvement in the war recognized by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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