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    election to unify North and South Vietnam. However‚ in 1956‚ South Vietnam backed by the US refused to hold the election. The US supported South Vietnam by sending 2‚000 military advisors-which grew to over 16‚000 by 1963. In 1960‚ the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) began to attack the South Vietnamese government. After two attacks on U.S Navy vessels‚ the Gulf of Tokin Resolution was passed by the US Congress to give the US more powers to fight the war in Vietnam. The first US Combat troops

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    Liberty Leading the People presents a scene of July Revolution of 1830 in Paris from Eugène Delacroix’s view. It outlines the time‚ place and characters in the uprising. We can read Delacroix’s attitude towards the revolution and Parisian society through the painting. Eugène Delacroix is a distinguishable figure in French painting. He was strongly influenced by the Neo-classical style from Jacques-Louis David in his early painting education. When he was attracted by the style of Peter Paul Rubens

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    One critic of his time even referred to Cheret as “the father of woman’s liberation” (Megg) for his new female characterizations‚ which in turn were dubbed as ‘Cherettes’. They were idealized representations of cheerful‚ playful and glamorous girls that broke the old Victorian stereotypes. They were liberating images that depicted

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    lower positions. They change their location‚ but also inadvertently change careers as well. According to recent interviews with workers around Chicago‚ many immigrants were forced to get inferior jobs to support their families. A former People’s Liberation Army Police Officer turned air-conditioning unit installer explains‚ “When I was seventeen‚ I joined the PLA Armed Police Force. In total‚ I have spent

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    Nam in their struggle to wipe out the French colonialists and defeat the American interventionists; to bring the liberation war of the Viet Nam people to complete victory‚ thereby making Viet Nam a genuinely independent and united country. In the field of external affairs‚ the Viet Nam Laodong Party recommends: ’The Viet Nam people must . . . actively support the national liberation movements of oppressed peoples; unite closely with the Soviet Union‚ China and other people’s democracies; form close

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    1960’s  Revolts     Business & Society Wild  six2es  –  a  century  full  of  change   June  1969   Woodstock  fes9val‚  NY‚  USA   Mar  to  Mai  1968   Student  Movement‚  FRA   Feb  1968   An9-­‐War  Movement‚  GER   April  1965   An9-­‐War  Movement     WA‚  USA   Apr  to  May  1968   -­‐assault  of  Rudi  Dutschke‚  GER     -­‐students  protests

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    a goal to collect an empire (Said‚ 1978‚ p. 42.) Events such as plagues that occurred in Alexandria and the anti-French rebellion that happened in Egypt fragmented the façade of liberation. The political and

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    French ← 1911 left Vietnam on a steamship >worked as kitchen hand Western influences and travels; France and USSR ← By 1914 well travelled>India‚ US‚ England (worked as a pastry cook) ← 1917 arrived in Paris and was known as Nguyen Ai Qouc (Nguyen the Patriot)>Paris read Karl Marx‚ heard of Bolshevik rev. similarities b/t Russia and Vietnam> communism ← 1919 went to Woodrow Wilson to petition for Vietnam independence ← 1920 founder of the French Communist Party ← 1924

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    <b>1945</b><br><li> Ho Chi Minh and his People’s Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces and Japan transfers all power to Ho’s Vietminh. <br><li> President Roosevelt dies<br><li> Making good on his threat to unleash "...a rain of ruin the like of which has never been seen on earth...‚" President Harry Truman authorizes the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan -- one on Hiroshima on August 6‚ and

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    discriminatory attacks against the Jews within the world. In eastern Jerusalem during the a highly celebrated Jewish holiday‚ more than forty graves were vandalized at an ancient cemetery. Also there have been attacks against Synagogues. In July 2014 a Paris Synagogue was burned but no-one

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