THE VIETNAM WAR Did you know about 1.5 million people died during the Vietnam War‚ which was more than the population of New Mexico in the 1960s? Vietnam‚ which is relative in size to New Mexico‚ is a country in Asia that borders the Gulf of Tonkin. The Vietnam War was a result of people in Vietnam wanting independence from France. The US supported the French so that all of Vietnam would not become a communist country and so this would not lead to other countries following in their footsteps
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Before the Vietnam War‚ there was the Civil Rights movement. A movement dedicated to to gain equal right for all. One major difference that was discovered to be preventing racial equality was income. As white families lived in their mail-order homes‚ people of color struggled with making enough money to make ends meet. This realization is what caused the president‚ Lyndon B. Johnson‚ to take action. Since the President believed in equal right‚ and after he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ he
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heritage‚ and other activities which make that certain group unique. The impact that the third World War gave was the concept of homogenization. No longer did the outside world view themselves as a particular group or race. As Americans found out the difficult way‚ we were basing our logic on the identity of race. Race had everything to do with society before the war. It caused uproar because of police violence‚ it was inadvertently a sign of struggle and lack of privilege. We weren’t actually
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Evaluate the Impact of US Operations in Indochina in the 1960s and 1970s on the Khmer Rouge Victory in 1975 From the 1960’s to 1970’s‚ the United State’s foreign intervention in the Indochina region produced political revolt throughout Cambodia that would contribute to the influential victory of the Khmer Rouge in 1975. The unfavourable US involvement in Cambodia resulted in multiple factors that catalysed the Khmer Rouge’s succession to power. The United States’ military and political interests
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greater impact than it did during the time of the Vietnam War. The perception of image through television coverage combined with courageous work by employees of the government to uncover lies told by the government allowed society to gain a better depiction of the war. From this
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The Vietnam War and Its Legacy The Vietnam War is one of the most shocking eras in American history. Not only did the utmost world power in the world get bested by an almost third-world country‚ but we lost badly. This war could have been won‚ or even prohibited in the first place. The United States should have won this war‚ with a blend of better weapons usage‚ better maneuvers‚ and better support from their home country. Many people do not know the reason for the U.S involvement in getting into
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The cold war was marked by a conflict that spanned from 1947 to1991 involving subtle surveillance in the biggest cities of the world to violent battles in the tropical jungles of Vietnam. Its general ideas were for the United States to hinder the spread of communism or for the Soviet Union to expand their communist government. With this the cold war largely influenced the economic‚ revolutionary‚ and humanitarian aid of both rivaling nations for areas that suffered the most after World War II. Their
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Vietnam War portfolio Causes The Vietnam War was a consequence of the cold war. Since neither the United States nor the Soviet Union could risk fighting each other directly they did it in other countries indirectly like in Vietnam. One of the main causes of the Vietnam War was the Gulf of Tonkin. In the Gulf of Tonkin the USS Maddox was attacked by torpedoes from the Vietnamese. They confirmed it was Vietnamese by the markings on the shells found. Then later on a second attack happened. When the
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The Vietnam War was probably the most problematic of all US wars‚ not the least due to the fact that there were many paradoxes. The US built up a harsh regime in the south of Vietnam in the name of protecting democracy; “saving” lives by destroying villages and communities. Although America was only meant to "advise" the Vietnamese; the border was crossed very quickly. This was mostly caused by the vague definition of the US objectives; everything was quite unclear and imprecise so that no one really
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The Korean War would be a radical step in fighting wars‚ as well as the feelings people had toward the war. All wars in American History fought before the Korean War were based on either national survival or the gain of territory. A strong conflict was created between the Soviet Union and the United States. From this conflict‚ tension was so strong that wars were fougt in the midst of this Cold War. The Korean War was the first America ever waged that was not fought for national survival‚ for
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