This paper centers on the reasons why the US fail to win the Vietnam war. There are many reasons. Firstly‚ the US couldn’t expand the scale of the war. As for the US，it might lose if not expand the scale‚ but it must lose if it expanded. The biggest enemy of the US is the Soviet union‚ and the most important place it should protect is the Europe. If the US expand the scale of the war in Vietnam‚ pitting a large number of troops to the place where is far from the Europe‚ complaining with Chinese
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unquestionably the Sixties. The counterculture encompasses a period from the 50s through the mid-70s. It is one of the most revolutionary and riotous trend in the American history which came into being in a wide range of social and cultural aspects and it basically appeared with its strong‚ shocking and demonstrative features in such mainstream genres as musical and Hollywood movie. The main objective of my work is to demonstrate the hallmarks of the counterculture with the assisstance of Hair: The
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Therefore‚ America trained the South Vietnamese army to fight the Viet Cong and in 1963‚ 16‚000 advisors were training troops in South Vietnam. Many of these troops were not professionals. These men were young‚ inexperienced‚ and were from America’s minority groups. This was one of their first mistakes - using troops who were not experienced or highly skilled. All they had was basic training behind them. US troops used helicopter gunships as well as aircrafts‚ allowing them to have total control
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world and has been sung by renowned singers such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett‚ were a vibrant moving force of the 1960’s; they permanently changed the course of music and soundly influenced the lives of future generations. To get an idea of how much the Beatles helped shape the following generations’ lifestyles‚ one must look at the lifestyle and the music before the Beatles. The music the Beatles played‚ “Rock and Roll‚” had already established itself as a popular form
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Vietnam War The Cold War was the base to creating the Vietnam War. The Indochina War contributed create the Vietnam War as well. The Cold War and the Vietnam War were almost the same war. The countries in each war argued over whose way of leading or ruling was right. The Vietnam War did have fighting though. But‚ the Indochina War wasn’t like that. The Indochina war was over who should have power in Vietnam. To fully understand the Vietnam war‚ you have to understand the Cold War and the Indochina
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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 Cold War is defined as the geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Because of the tension between the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc‚ the other countries started to get involved in the Cold War. Different beliefs clash with each other‚ which led to an increase in tensions around the world. Due to the countries having different political systems‚ it created conflicts in countries like Vietnam and Cuba‚ but those conflicts eventually brings independence. First of
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Linh Nguyen Pro. Pam O’Klock English 1A – Fall 2014 06 December 2014 Reading Response #1 “Family Counterculture” "I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way". These are the lyrics from Greatest Love Of All song of Whitney Houston. After listening lyrics of this song‚ I realized that children are very important in our life because they are the happiness of family today and the future of our world. Thus‚ investment for children is investment for our future
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SDS who joined the Weathermen like‚ Karen Ashley‚ Bernardine Dohrn‚ Bill Ayers‚ John Jacobs‚ Jeff Jones‚ Gerry Long‚ Terry Robbins‚ Steve Tappis and many others. They felt that this was desperate decision because of the slow efforts to stop the Vietnam war and bring the U.S soldiers home. Also‚ the Weathermen felts that they needed to fight the internal force (the police department) with violence because‚ since 1965 the soul and body of these movements were student
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The war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq differ in many ways such as; the reason for war‚ US support‚ the cost‚ number of deaths‚ and the time and place. In this essay I am going to compare the Vietnam War with the war in Iraq describing three ways in which the war in Vietnam differs from the war in Iraq. Three ways the two wars differ are the reason for war‚ number of deaths‚ and the cost. The Vietnam War was a war over communism that started in 1950‚ when Ho Chi Minh‚ the national leader of
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