The Civil War was and still is a highly controversial topic in America. The wins and losses were both great‚ and many Americans died. It helped set into motion many great things such as liberating the slaves‚ and keeping our country united and peaceful. Though not all things were great like the‚ hundreds‚ thousands of families that were damaged or even destroyed in this war. Almost everyone in the country lost a son‚ brother‚ father‚ cousin‚ nephew or uncle. No one in America was left completely
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Running head: The Positive Side The Positive Side of the Vietnam War The Positive Side of the Vietnam War War is a tough gritty world that describes the destruction of people and countries in the name of nationalism; it is difficult to justify war and give a positive outcome when shown the disaster it causes. The Vietnam War was an extremely difficult war and is widely seen as a catastrophe by the world‚ even with that being the case there is still some positives that have been extracted from
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Aaron Meyer Vietnam War Ms. Price 12 December 2016 Boys of War The Vietnam War was a dark and depressing time in United States history. As the American’s involvement in the Vietnam War increased‚ the fewer people wanted the war to continue. Americans began to dislike the effects the war was having on America. One of the unfavorable attributes of the war‚ as explained in the story “The Things They Carried” and the films Letters Home‚ Platoon and “Back
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American Dream Essay The Many Effects of the Vietnam War in America Before the war‚ the American Dream was seen almost everywhere in America. Men and women were marrying‚ buying homes‚ moving into suburbs and starting families. The American Dream was something that people strived for in life‚ and used it as a reason to succeed in life. Women were usually housewives that worked minor jobs‚ and men were automatically viewed as the head of the household and sole source of income. All was well in
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The Vietnam War began in 1954 after the rise of the communist party in North Vietnam and continued throughout the 50’s and 60’s. As the Cold War intensified‚ America strengthened their policies against the Soviet Union and anyone who was allied with them and in 1955 President Eisenhower pledged to support South Vietnam and Diem‚ their leader. Diem was a dictator who found anyone who sympathized with the North Vietnamese and tortured and executed them. In 1961 President Kennedy sent a team to build
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The Vietnam War: 1955-1975 The Vietnam War was highly controversial throughout the world it was one of the most recent wars as it occurred between 1955-1975 this was primarily a civil war until the United States got involved this in turn pulled several other countries into the midst of the war. This was one of the major wars that occurred after the two biggest wars in history World War One and World War Two‚ although it is on a much smaller scale for instance there was a significantly smaller playing
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It is believed by the majority‚ that one of the chief downfalls of the American occupation in Vietnam was the underestimation of the resilience of the Communist Vietcong in the north. It was believed by most analysts‚ at the time‚ that the North Vietnamese could easily be brought to negotiate. President Johnson‚ along with most of his advisors‚ believed that once the North Vietnamese saw the enormous power of the U.S. military that they would ultimately capitulate. This was also the general consensus
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to end the war to began. Between 1968 and 1969‚ contacts in Paris between North Vietnam and the United States were expanded to include South Vietnam and the NLF. Under the leadership of President Richard M Nixon‚ the United States changed its tactics to combine U.S. troop withdrawals with intensified bombing and the invasion of Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia . Due to the length of the war‚ the high number of U.S. casualties‚ and the exposure of U.S. involvement in war crimes such
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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. It was the first war ever broadcast on television. The public was able to see what happened on the battlefield. One of the chief effects of the war was the division it
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The United States got involved with the fight in Vietnam mostly as a result of three things: Eisenhower believed in what’s known as the domino theory‚ which is the belief that if one country in southeast Asia gave into communism more and more would start to follow suit‚ just like falling dominoes. Eisenhower said in his speech “This would lead to disintegration in Southeast Asia‚ with the "loss of Indochina‚ of Burma‚ of Thailand‚ of the Peninsula‚ and Indonesia following” (http://www.history.co
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