"If I were President" Hello my fellow Americans‚ I come to you today to address the complex issues facing our society in this contentious time. The biggest concern of my administration is our foreign and domestic policy issues. Let me take the time to familiarize the American people with our policies and where we stand today with them. I want to assure the American people that my administration is doing the utmost best in resolving these issues. We will all have to make small sacrifices in order
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On November 1‚ 1955 a war began in the country of Vietnam that cost many unnecessary lives and changed many global powers “Digital History” The war of Vietnam was almost unsolvable either situation was wrong. The war changed not only the country of Vietnam but all of the global powers. Under French rule the Vietnamese were receiving no benefits and barely enough to live on‚ it only took a small revolt to change that. Vietnam had many natural resources such as spices‚ metals‚ sugar‚ rubber‚ coal
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consumer base of American media would be forgiven for internalising the the sensationalised images of America and the American Dream. However‚ like any dream‚ the perception that it is ‘real’ is always going to be stronger to the American who is experiences it as if it were ‘real’‚ than it is to the outside observer to which it is explained. Americans have been described as being ‘trained to accept simplistic myths as truth’ (Smith‚ 2013)‚ and thus‚ many non-American consumers of American media are acutely
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Why Did the USA Become Increasingly Involved in Vietnam? The Vietnam War- one of the bloodiest‚ grimmest‚ and most trying times of the Cold War. A war that many believed was fought in vain and without purpose and that “…produced no famous victories‚ no national heroes and no patriotic songs…” A war that threw the USA into public disdain for intervening where intervention was not needed; for causing bloodshed when none was called for- and all in the name of a failed policy of Containment and the
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Response to the Threat of Communism During the Vietnam War Period After WWII‚ Australia still faced a severe threat‚ the threat of communism. Communism was seen as a perfect government‚ a utopia‚ by communists‚ but in reality it’s riddled with corruption and power struggles and a lack social security and identity. The Australian government responded to this threat in many ways‚ they gave economic aid‚ made alliances‚ took military action and even tried to ban the Communist Party of Australia. Australians
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The American involement in the Vietnam war is a conversial topic because many thing occured during that time that didn’t set well in many Americans souls. This war reveal many tragic losses to people livelihood. These losses made certain americans wonder how American involement participation was unjust. The solution to this gruesome war was not agreed on by many americans . Martin Luther King Jr builds his argument on the affect of the felllow americans and the ways american solves the problems in
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Potsdam to the fundamental conditions of the occupation of Germany. American nuclear bombs destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 1947: The Truman Doctrine: The US offers assistance to countries threatened by communism -- especially Greece and Turkey. US Secretary of State George C. Marshall announces a massive aid program for the reconstruction of World War II-torn Europe that will become known as the Marshall Plan. 1948: The Communists take power in Czechoslovakia. 1948: The Soviet blockade of West Berlin
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Korea has constantly been a battleground for conflicting ideologies and nations‚ the most prominent of all was the division of the Peninsula into half. Right from the beginning‚ Korea was under China’s sphere of influence. When the Japanese became greedy for more resources and land‚ its first target was Korea since it was the closest to Japan. They then gained control of Korea after the First Sino-Japanese war in 1895. Thereafter defeating Russian 1904‚ who wanted Korea to defend its interest in
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what communism is at its most basic level. Simply put‚ communism is the idea that everyone in a given society receives equal shares of the benefits derived from labor. Communism is designed to allow the poor to rise up and attain financial and social status equal to that of the middle-class landowners. In order for everyone to achieve equality‚ wealth is redistributed so that the members of the upper class are brought down to the same financial and social level as the middle class. Communism also
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Why should the capitalist state give way to communist society‚ according to Marx? The main challenge of this essay consists in identifying the reasons according to which Karl Marx considered that the capitalist state should give way to communist society. The base text for answering this question will be Marx’s own work titled “The Communist Manifesto”‚ however this essay will rely on other works of Marx such as “The German Ideology” or “Preface to a critique on political economy” as well as
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