From 1954-1973 there was the vietnamese war or should I say conflict‚ because there was never a real declaration of a war. The war took place in all of vietnam and some parts in Laos and Cambodia. In the end of the conflict north vietnam won and Vietnam become a communist country. Why was there a conflict? Well the conflict started because the north wanted a communist country and the south wanted a democratic country. Not like many other cases in this conflict there was a lot of different countries
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Year 10 Commerce Assessment Task: Political Involvement Carbon Tax Question 1: Identify and outline the nature of the issue you are researching. Include a description of this issue‚ why it has arisen and its impact on society. The carbon tax is one of Australia’s biggest current political issues‚ the scheme itself was developed to help tackle climate change and help Australia environmentally. Carbon is present in all fossil fuels (coal‚ petroleum‚ and natural gas) and is released as carbon dioxide
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Notice for Scholars This monograph was originally published as the September 1972 issue of Southeast Asian Perspectives‚ a publication of the American Friends of Vietnam‚ an organization which was formed in 1955 and prior to its demise two decades later included on its board such diverse figures as Senators John F. Kennedy and Mike Mansfield‚ Socialist Party Chairman Norman Thomas‚ and Journalist Robert Shaplen. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author. Please note that in formatting
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The United States got involved with the fight in Vietnam mostly as a result of three things: Eisenhower believed in what’s known as the domino theory‚ which is the belief that if one country in southeast Asia gave into communism more and more would start to follow suit‚ just like falling dominoes. Eisenhower said in his speech “This would lead to disintegration in Southeast Asia‚ with the "loss of Indochina‚ of Burma‚ of Thailand‚ of the Peninsula‚ and Indonesia following” (http://www.history.co
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For those who spend their lives working to prevent and end wars‚ whether and how war itself can be justified must be an urgent question. Of course‚ war’s justification is an ancient tradition. Bizarrely‚ Just War theory was formulated within the Christian church‚ whose founder chose a donkey instead of a war horse and taught his followers to overcome evil with good. Not only is the theory still mainstream among churches but‚ as Dan Smith‚ head of an important NGO working for conflict transformation
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Vietnam Essay Some people have asked the question of whether or not the Vietnam could have been won. One answer is yes‚ it could have been won if it wasn’t for the defeatism and protestors swaying us from our course of action. One way in which the United States could have ended up winning this war is we could have invaded and taken over North Vietnam and ended it as a nation state and military power. This would have then ended its ability to aid South Vietnam. However‚ there is controversy towards
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Was Abraham Lincoln justified in not freeing the slaves immediately? Slave states were afraid of an anti-slavery government so they seceded from the United States. The slave states that seceded from the United States became the Confederate States of America and the United States became the Union. Lincoln entered into war to get back the slave states that seceded from the Union. This war ultimately lasted four years with the Confederate States of America losing the war‚ and the United States gaining
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Vietnam War The war first began in 1959‚ five years after the division of the country by the Geneva Accords. Vietnam had been split into two. The communist government in the north was under Ho Chi Minh and democratic government in the south was under Ngo Dinh Diem. The Vietnam War stated because France tried to make another attempt to takeover Vietnam by having a foreign power to rule. In Vietnam the target of containment was Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnam front he had created in 1941. Ho and
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The Lesser Of Two Evils: Why the Atomic Bomb Was Justified As history has progressed‚ Man has always looked back and debated why certain actions occurred and whether or not such measures should have been taken. Though numerous such arguments take place‚ one of the most debated issues is that of the dropping of the atomic bomb at the end of World War Two. Critics of the atomic bomb argue that far too many people were killed through the United States ’ use of the bomb‚ they state that other means
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Abstract Following the Paris Peace Accords‚ Operation Homecoming returned 591 American prisoners of war (POWs) to the US. At the time‚ over 1‚300 prisoners were listed as missing in action (MIA). An additional 1‚200 were killed in action (KIA) and body not recovered. In the ensuing 20 years‚ activist groups pushed the American government to look into the matter‚ and several investigations were launched. While no governmental investigation has determined that American POWs were left behind‚ there
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