To begin‚ what caused the Vietnam war and why did the United States get involved? In the early 1880’s‚ France conquered Vietnam and combined it with the neighboring countries Cambodia and Laos. This created a colony called French Indochina. However‚ in World War II the Japanese drove the French out of Indochina and occupied Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh‚ a communist leader in Vietnam‚ didn’t want to be controlled by another foreign power. Thus he lead a revolt against the Japanese in 1945. Not soon after
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Vietnam War “You never knew who was the enemy and who was the friends‚” said a marine officer who took part in a conflict deemed the longest war in Unites States history (My). The Vietnam War was not only the longest war in US history‚ as it took place from 1959 to 1975‚ but it is also considered one of the most controversial conflicts to date. This war‚ also known as the second Indochina War‚ occurred in the countries of Laos‚ Vietnam‚ and Cambodia. It was fought between communist North Vietnam
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The cold war was the war that happen almost directly after world war II and had many people involved. In this era the atomic bomb was founded by Einstein and everything went south from there. The Cold War was just a continued session of the Holocaust but with more powerful weapons. Initially the Cold War started with Containment and the Marshal Plan. Greece and Turkey were the first nations spiraling into crisis that had not been directly occupied by the Soviet Army. Both Countries were in severe
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change. After the Cold War had begun‚ Canada was forced to make quick and logical decisions‚ the impacts were felt from all over the world. Canada’s tremendous participation in the three major conflicts within the Cold War the Korean War in which they helped from stopping the escalation of the war‚ the resolution of Suez Canal Crisis with Canada’s contribution the crisis did not turn into a large battle and was immediately solved and their aid and guidance in the Vietnam War. Canada‚ because of their
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we are examining appear in bold relief in the story of the Boer War. Their appearance in this poorly remembered South African adventure previews many aspects of the world conflagration that soon followed it: * It was the quintessential example of the union of capitalism and imperialism. *Canada’s participation allied her with gross human rights abuses and civilian deaths. *As it was a white on white‚ Christian versus Christian war‚ it was necessary that churches and the government machinery of
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says the United States are fighting in Vietnam because the United States do not want Vietnam to be a communist. Vietnam needs extensive assistance from capitalist states because Vietnam is not capable of defending themselves from the communist. He also says that Vietnam falling to the communism means that the entire Southeast Asia potentially falls to the communism‚ and it eventually threatens the United States and their allies. Therefore‚ the war in Vietnam is for Americans to protect their free
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THE MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN VIETNAM WAR The moral judgement on the vietnam war is relatively simple: all war is forbidden‚ the conflict in vietnam is war‚ therefore the vietnam war is forbidden. From the viewpoint of the “just war” theory‚ the morality or justice of the vietnam war can be determined only by applying the principles of jus ad bellum and details of vietnam war. There are 6 of the principles of the jus ad bellum: 1. Just Cause: ‘War is permissible only to confront “a real and certain danger”
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During class‚ the Vietnam War was discussed. The biggest impression I had of the war was the number of casualties on both sides. Based on our study‚ the two lessons that could be learned were that strategies were more important than the size of the army and that a government should never lie to its people. North Vietnamese and the Vietcong were winning mostly throughout the Vietnam War because of their efficient operational plans. In fact‚ the North Vietnamese army had fewer and less powerful
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War is ubiquitous; there will always be one country at war with another during all the times of the year. The first recorded war was in 2700 BCE in Mesopotamia between Sumer and Elam‚ and the latest have been the Syrian and Iraq wars. Although there have been countless amounts of changes in warfare since 2700 BCE there will forever be a constant controversy about what good comes from war. While soldiers are risking their lives across the world civilians are at home contemplating the pros and cons
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The Cold War was an almost 50-year long stretch of tense relations between the United States and the Communist-ruled Soviet Union. The Cold War started very quickly after World War II and finished with the 1991 destroying of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The dread of Communism invasion in the U.S. government‚ media outlet and different associations influenced American legislative issues‚ culture‚ and even day by day life‚ especially in the early
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