Evaluate the effectiveness of the South Vietnamese government in maintaining power until 1968. Your response should be a minimum of approximately 750 and should not exceed 1200 words. The South Vietnamese government had a substantial amount of success in keeping power up until 1968‚ surprisingly. This was done in a number of ways such as; government policies‚ fighting tactics/strategies and the aid of other countries e.g. America. On 26th October 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem won a referendum which appointed
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(2) Anne Moody‚ Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968) In the beginning I never really saw myself as a writer. I was first and foremost an activist in the civil rights movement in Mississippi. When I could no longer see that anything was being accomplished by our work there‚ I left and went North. I came back to see through my writing that no matter how hard we in the movement worked‚ nothing seemed to change; that we made a few visible little gains; yet at the root‚ things always remained the same;
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To what extent has the importance of the Tet Offensive of 1968 been overrated? On January 30th 1968 over 80‚000 Vietcong soldiers launched a surprise attack on over 100 towns and cities in South Vietnam. This is known as the Tet Offensive. The US army and South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) launched a counter-attack which regained all lost territory and crippled the military capabilities of the Vietcong. Some historians argue Tet was not as important as it appears to be. However‚ it is widely considered
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On February 1‚ 1968 Pennsylvania railroad and New York Central Railroad merged together‚ which at the time of publishing “Deals from Hell” (2005) was the largest US corporate merger. National interest was at stake due to the magnitude of this union as it was estimated to contribute 3% of national GDP and should the corporate entities fail it would also lead to an estimated 3% unemployment as well. Unfortunately this merger was doomed for failure only 29 months later when bankruptcy was filed as
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Hemispheric disconnection and unity in conscious awareness - Sperry 1968. Evaluation In 1968 the neuropsychologist conducted a study into split brain patients while working at the California Institute of Technology. Previously he had carried out research similar to this‚ in the1950s‚ splitting the brains of cats and monkeys. It was during this research that he realise3d that you could teach one of the hemispheres a task‚ while keeping the other hemisphere unaware of the information learned. This
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their use of language‚ Zefirelli and Luhrmann take two very different approaches to Shakespeare’s second most famous theatrical work. The 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet‚ directed by Franco Zeffirelli‚ is set to a more traditional idea. The historical architecture of these towns provides a somewhat more authentic feel to the film. The scenery as portrayed in the 1968 film is ‘correct‚’ according to description provided within the text of Romeo and Juliet. The 1996 version‚ on the other hand‚ is a different
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Explain why the Vietcong was supported in South Vietnam in the years 1964 to 1968 (12 marks) The Vietcong was supported in the years 1964 to 1968 due to the fact that the Americans had failed to win the hearts and minds of the people. Instead they alienated the people and thought them to be sub-human‚ destroyed their homes with bombing and unwanted policies such as strategic hamlets. The Vietcong was presented as both nationalist and a communist movement. This enabled it to have a wide appeal
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country was changing a lot. In particular‚ the year 1968‚ was when our country went through a major turning point‚ especially when you take in consideration the major events that involved the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement such as the “Tet Offense”‚ violent protests‚ and the Civil Rights Act being passed. The Vietnam War is still a very controversial subject to this day. Whether or not we won is still being debated‚ but during 1968 there were many significant events that took place involving
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1968 was the year of the bloodiest fighting in the Vietnam War‚ the USA had won an important military battle with the Vietcong‚ and the USA inflicted a huge number of casualties on the Vietcong. However it can be argued that it was the year that the USA lost the war‚ it was only a military victory it had not served a political objective meaning it was useless. The American public were shocked by the scale of the fighting after being reassured by general west-more in late 1967‚ that the victory was
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How serious a threat to Soviet power were the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Prague Spring of 1968? There were two serious threats to Soviet power during the period 1956 to 1968. Between the Hungarian Uprising and Prague Spring the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a greater threat because it took place at the start of the weakening of Communism in Eastern Europe. The Soviet retreat from Cuba‚ the growing atmosphere of detente and the Sino-soviet split all combined to weaken soviet control over
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