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    Vietnam was the first war that issued full freedom to the press‚ allowing media to cover the war as they saw it. Without censorship‚ appalling images enabled the public to see war‚ as they never had before. Many people believe that it was the media that sparked the lack of support for the war. The Tet Offensive‚ for example‚ would become one of the most controversial and climactic events in which the media played a role. Up to that point‚ the media had portrayed the U.S. as winning the war. When

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    Throughout the Vietnam War‚ the Americans used many tactics to defeat the Vietcong. The reason for the American involvement in the war was to prevent the spread of communism. This spread was known as the Domino theory. Two of the tactics used were ‘Search and destroy’ and ‘defoliation.’ Both of these tactics were used greatly throughout the War. As well as this‚ both tactics were implemented by General Westmoreland. There were two kinds of Search and Destroy and they were search and destroy in

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    Vietnam was a small Asian country‚ 9000 miles away from the United States. Yet America felt that its national interest was threatened strongly enough to fight a war there. The explanation for this lies in the fear caused by the spread of communism at that time. The role of communism was extremely important in this conflict. You see‚ the US had to enter the war to stop the spread of communism in Asia since North Vietnam was communist. If North Vietnam was to succeed in converting Vietnam into a communist

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    What was the impact of the war on Australia and/or neighbouring countries? (Syllabus Question): Students are expected to study the impact of the war on ONE of the following: • Vietnam veterans and their families • Indo-Chinese refugees • Australian culture • Australia’s relations with Asia Veterans and their families: • Vietnam War veterans were no treated well on arrival to Australia unlike during WWI and WWII. • Unlike during 1918 when the government tried to assist soldiers with

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    English 10 HN Persuasive Essay The Vietnam War went on for many years behind the aggression of the United States‚ as Vietnam called it. Millions of soldiers lost their lives in the time consuming battle. On February 8‚ 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson wrote a letter to Ho Chi Minh‚ president of Vietnam at the time. In President Johnson’s letter he expresses his hopes of ending this conflict that has gone on so long in Vietnam. In a reply to President Johnson‚ President Ho Chi Minh

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    Cold War In history‚ there is a disagreement among historians regarding to when the Cold War began. While most historians dated its origins to the period immediately following World War II‚ others dispute that it began towards the end of World War I‚ when tensions between the Russian Empire‚ the United States and other European countries had already demonstrated the mutual distrust and suspicion between the Western powers and the Soviet Union as a result of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. With these

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    have to do with the 1960’s? Look for things besides rebellion against the Vietnam War. The student movement was the next major social change movement to develop in the 1960s. Many of its early organizers had first become politically active in the early 1960s working alongside blacks in civil rights protests. The student movement worked primarily to fight racism and poverty‚ increase student rights‚ and to end the Vietnam War. At the core of the student movement was a belief in participatory democracy

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    Joseph Stalin‚ USSR The roots of the Cold War Almost as soon as the Second World War ended‚ the winners started to argue with each other. In particular‚ a bitter conflict developed between the USA and USSR. This struggle continued until the late 1980s. Walter Lippmann‚ an American journalist writing in the 1940s‚called it a ’cold war’ and the phrase has been widely used since. Historians have produced three conflicting explanations for the start of the Cold War: 1. TheUSSR was to blame. Stalin planned

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    To what extent was the Vietnam War part of the Cold War? The Vietnam War was a cold war-era military conflict in Southeast Asia. Conflict officially began on November 1st in 1955 and ended on April 30th 1975 with the fall of Saigon. With that it lasted nearly 20 years‚ which makes it one of the longest military conflicts ever in human history. The war was fought between the Communistic North Vietnamese and the Anti-Communistic south. The north was supported by various nations‚ including the Soviet

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    The cold war I chose to write about the cold war. This is because I think that it is a very interesting theme‚ and I wanted to learn more about it. I will talk about when the cold war happened‚ who was involved‚ about nuclear weapons and why it was never real fighting and about the Cuban missile crisis. My problem statement: What would have happened if the cold war became hot? A hot war is actual warfare. All talks have failed and the armies are fighting. The cold war lasted from 1945

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