James McCann American Involvement in Vietnam The Vietnam War was one of the longest‚ and most costly armed conflicts in American history. The North Vietnamese and its southern supporters‚ known as the Vietcong‚ sought to overthrow the South and create one unified‚ communist state of Vietnam. This goal pitted the United States and South Vietnam against the communist regime‚ and the US maintained a military and economic presence in the country for almost 25 years. The increased American presence in
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When we learned about the Revolutionary War in eighth grade‚ we never discussed the impact it had on black‚ Indians‚ or women which in hindsight is pretty sad because history is not meant to be one dimensional. Young white men were not the only people who played a part in the war neither were they the only ones impacted by the war. One of the marginalized groups of people‚ blacks‚ played a more subdued part of the war. Many blacks flocked to the British army in South Carolina and Georgia because
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Jo Bob Professor Nutty NURS 1350 2 Nursing During the American Civil War The American Civil War occurred between 1861 and 1865. When the war began‚ there was no organized medical corps for either the Union Army or the Confederate Army. Up until then‚ nursing was still considered a “loose term” as far what a nurse is and does. There were no official nursing schools or professional trained nurses available. As newspapers wrote about the poor and unsanitary conditions that wounded solider were
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For many African Americans‚ the war offered an opportunity to get out of the cycle of crushing rural poverty. Black joined the military in large numbers‚ escaping a decade of Depression and tenant farming in the South and Midwest. Yet‚ like the rest of America in the 1940s‚ the armed forces were segregated. The Army accepted black enlistees but created separate black infantry regiments and assigned white commanders to them. Of the more than 2.5 million African Americans who registered for the draft
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the U.S victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775 - 1783. The colonies that once didn’t mind being the colonies now have a different view. The victory of the Revolutionary War was possible due to the political‚ diplomatic and military reasons‚ such as The Second Continental Congress‚ The Treaty of Paris of 1783‚ and the Patriots Advantage. The Second Continental Congress is the political reason because it was the start of the war. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 served
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1945: The Allies agree in 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
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Although the Spanish American war endured around ten weeks and not as many lives were lost‚ it was a big part of the beginning of the United States. During the Spanish American war‚ there were a variety of disasters as well as gossip and fear around the people that lived during that period of time an example was the Maine battleship. The Spanish American war of 1898 was a huge contribution of the Cuban Insurrectos behavior which led the rising of the barbed-wire concentration camps‚ as well as the
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Lewcock/Filice World Core 3/4 11 March 2013 War to End All Wars In history‚ World War I was one of the most important wars; it has historically been referred to as the “War to end all Wars.” It exposed the good and bad a war can create. Gandhi’s quote about violence says‚ “the good is only temporary‚” but “the evil it does is permanent.” Historically‚ the “good” is shown throughout World War I‚ as when people initially believed the war was beneficial‚ enabling people to demonstrate
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threatened to make war upon us for the purpose of reconquering Texas. In the meantime‚ we have tried every effort at reconciliation. The cup of forbearance had been exhausted even before the recent information from the frontier of the [Rio Grande] Del Norte. But now‚ after reintegrated menaces. Mexico has passed the boundary of the US‚ has invaded our territory‚ and shed American blood upon American soil. She has proclaimed the hostilities have commenced‚ and that the two nations are now at war. Document
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Flash forward to the hot summer of 1863‚ the height of the Civil War. New York City was seething with racial and religious resentment‚ and on July 13th when government officials attempted to enforce the draft‚ tensions erupted into a four day streak of mayhem‚ murder‚ and racism‚ with Irish working men spearheading the movement. The Enrollment Act called for the conscription of all males between the ages of 20-45 to fight for the Union‚ with the exception of the wealthiest‚ who could afford the $300
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