The Vietnam War had a big impact on New Zealand war veterans. Between 1964-1972‚ there was about 4‚000 young New Zealanders who had volunteered to service in Vietnam‚ they were wanting to get out into the world and do something exciting but the thrills of war were soon replaced by the gruesome reality. Things got worse when they finally returned home as they came to face an angry public and were told to get out of their uniform quickly and not to tell anyone where they had been. The full impact of
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Vietnam was the longest war in American history and the most popular American war of the 20th century. It resulted in nearly 60‚000 American deaths and in 2 million Vietnamese deaths. Even today‚ many Americans still ask whether the American effort in Vietnam was necessary or whether it was a noble cause‚ if it failed to protect the South Vietnamese from totalitarian government. The Vietnam War fought between North Vietnam‚ supported by its communist allies‚ and South Vietnam‚ backed by the
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The Communist Manifesto is an important historical document written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles. It’s a political pamphlet advocating for the implementation of communism and the cessation of capitalism. The authors believe that a communist government will help lower the wage gap between classes‚ lifting families out of subsistence living and ensuring that the wealthier classes pay a fair amount of taxes. Although communism has proven to be detrimental to our society‚ this pamphlet still has
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Australian Government respond to the threat of communism both at home and overseas?” With the conclusion of World War II in 1945‚ the world was left divided between two different political beliefs of the communist Soviet Union and the capitalist and democratic United States. The rivalry between these two superpowers‚ known as the Cold War‚ threatened Australia’s peace & security‚ therefore the Australian Government was forced to respond to the threat of communism both at home & off its shores. The Australian
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Maintaining A Healthy Body There are a wide range of factors that affect the health of the body. The nutrition of the body is one. The Government recommends that all healthy individuals’ diet should contain plenty of starchy foods such as rice and pasta. Plenty of fruit and vegetables‚ at least 5 portions a day. Moderate amounts of protein-rich foods such as meat and fish. Moderate amounts of milk and dairy. Little saturated fatty foods‚ such as salt and sugar (1). Another factor that works
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The All-Union Communist Party was dated from 1917-1991‚ the party was also from Russia. The party arose from the Bolshevik side of the RSDWP. The Bolsheviks in 1903 were led by Vladimir Lenin. In 1917 the Bolsheviks broke away from the Menshevik side of the RSDWP. In 1918 the Bolsheviks became the ruling party of Russia so they changed their name to the All-Russian Communist Party. After the founding of the U.S.S.R. in 1925 they changed their name to The All-Union Communist Party. Then finally
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Lincoln’s efforts to preserve the Union To what extent did Lincoln’s economic‚ military‚ and political policies from 1861 to 1865 contribute to the preservation of the Union? Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860. As a president of the United States‚ Lincoln’s goal was to keep the Union together. The problem of slavery and the secession by the South are mainly the two issues that lead to the dissolve of the Union‚ in which Lincoln put all his efforts to deal with during his presidency
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Research Paper: Vietnam War Thuan Duong HUM410 Professor: Thomas Wilson May 12‚ 2012 The Vietnam War greatly changed America forever. It was the longest war fought in America’s history‚ lasting from 1955 to 1973. The Vietnam War tarnished America’s self- image by becoming the first time in history the United States failed to accomplish its stated war aims‚ to preserve a separate‚ independent‚ noncommunist government. The war also had great effects on the American people. It was
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People saw the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as one of the final crucial events in the cold war.1 It was Dec of 1979‚ when the Soviets 40th army invaded Afghanistan. At the time‚ America was charming countries like Pakistan‚ Israel‚ and others‚ therefore Russia sought to spread their reign of Communism throughout Afghanistan. It all started when the PDPA (Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan) which was a communist party that had close ties with Soviet Russia‚ was close to being vanquished so
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The Vietnam War was a civil conflict between communist North and capitalist South. The United States has always been a capitalist country and they feared other countries would become communist. President Eisenhower brought up the Domino theory that if Vietnam were to fall to communism then Laos‚ Cambodia‚ and other Asian countries would fall one after the other. At the time‚ Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam and in doing so‚ the U.S
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