Leo’s voice pushing me to join him. “I don’t want to waste the summer thinking and talking.” “I just want to think clearly‚” I responded. “That’s why I want you to come. We need a thinker to tell the story of our war.” “We wouldn’t get the same benefits our fathers did in Vietnam‚” I said. “For example‚” Leo asked? “For one thing‚ Bob Hope is dead‚ and we would be deprived of seeing Beyoncé in red‚ white‚ and blue panties like the ones Raquel Welch wore for the troops.” Leo gave a frown‚ and
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As America we are known for sticking our noses in things that do not concern us. One example that a lot of people use is the Vietnam war and how we had no business being over there and fighting their war but our government says we have to protect democracy when and where ever it calls for help so we shipped our boys off and got our asses handed to us pretty much. We lost a lot of good men for nothing we wouldn’t have gotten anything if we would have won the freaking thing anyways. With that being
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Vietnam war protests and the antiwar music of the 1960’s Rachel Allison AP us history due 12/12/14 The Vietnam War had a huge impact on the American people that will not soon be forgotten. During this period of time America was facing many serious challenges all at once. Americans were at war fighting for freedom and democracy because of the fear of the domino effect; a theory that a communist victory in one country would lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring countries
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direct war with each other (source 11). This meant that the USSR was only able to support North Vietnam through supplying China with arms who in turn would arm the North Vietnamese (source 11). Nevertheless‚ the Vietnam war was still composed of the “classic Cold War” scenario (source 11)‚ as there was support from the Capitalist west as well as support from the communist East in conflict against each other. In addition‚ the opposing ideologies of the Cold War further influenced the Vietnam war. The
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The Vietnam War versus the Iraq War With a husband in the Army and currently on his third deployment to Iraq‚ I am often asked how I think this war is different from past wars. In order to answer this question properly‚ I found that I needed to do a little bit of research and acquaint myself with some war history. As I learned about previous wars that Americans have been involved in‚ I learned that only two wars have had a great deal of controversy. The Vietnam War and the Iraq War‚ while
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Word Count: 1539 In which conflict did American public opinion play a larger role: the Spanish American War or the Vietnam War? Table of Contents: Plan of the Investigation……….…………………………........Pg 1 Summary of Evidence…..……….………………………….... Pg 1 Evaluation of Sources……….…………………...…………….Pg 3 Analysis….……….……………………………………………Pg 4 Conclusion ……….…………………………………...…….....Pg 7 List of Sources……………………….………………………..Pg 7 A: Plan of the investigation Did
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The Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by an almost third-world nation‚ but we lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won‚ or even prevented in the first place. The United States could have and should have won this war‚ with a combination of better weapons usage‚ better tactics‚ and better support from their home country. Before the War Even years before the war‚ Vietnam was a hotly disputed
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the Vietnam War Australia had multiple reasons which led to her involvement in the Vietnam War. Australia’s involvement consisted of four critical reasons that made young Australians to go to war in Vietnam. The fact that communism was in Australia gave many Australian citizens an internal fear. This brought Australians to resist communism in Vietnam and support the War. Australia became enthusiastic to support their alliances‚ where they requested for Australia to be involved in the War. All
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Truman may have not been very involved in the vietnam war but his participation in this war dates back to the 1950s when he aided the french with around 160 million dollars. This started and established the U.S. interest in indochina. During President Kennedy’s presidency troops in vietnam increased from 1‚000 troops in the 1950’s to 9‚000 troops by 1962. Kennedy justified going to war to protect South Vietnam was because of the Domino Theory‚ that if vietnam becomes a communist country than other southeast
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As World War 2 ended and the Cold War began‚ communism began to expand from Russia into South-East Asia. China and North Korea became communist and communism continued to spread south as Vietnam became independent from the French after the battle of Dien Bien Phu resulting in the country being split at the 17th parallel into communist North and non-communist South. The United States entered the war to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia‚ as they feared that Communist forces would gain
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