significance of the Vietnam War to New Zealanders The Vietnam War was a highly controversial war that attracted severe international criticism towards the US and its allies. New Zealand’s direct involvement started due to the international pressure exerted on us by Australia and the USA‚ and the increasing threat of the spread of communism this created huge divisions throughout New Zealand and questioned our reasoning to commit military forces there in the first place. The Vietnam War was significant to
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All Through the Vietnam War‚ draft avoidance and resistance came to a peak‚ nearly crippling the Selective Service System. Joined with the rebellion inside the military and the greater civilian antiwar movement‚ draft resistance became yet another shackle on the government’s ability to wage a war in Vietnam‚ and brought the war home in a very personal way for a generation of young men. Many draft resisters filed for conscientious objector status‚ didn’t report for induction when called‚ or attempted
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Vietnam & the 20th Century Experience DeVry University July 25‚ 2013 There were many incidents during the Vietnam War that one could call a “turning point”. These include the 1963 Buddhist riots‚ the coup against Diem in 1963‚ President Kennedy’s 1963 assassination‚ the Gulf of Tonkin resolution on 1964‚ and the presidential elections in 1964. With that in mind‚ the attack on the USS MADDOX in 1964was also a key turning point for American involvement in the war.
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During the events of the Cold war‚ many proxy wars began to engulf disputed‚ independent nations that were considered of importance. Two major wars being the Vietnam war‚ and the Korean war. The cause of the United State’s involvement in both wars‚ was the attempt to fight the spread of Communism. The president of the US at the time of the Korean war‚ Dwight D. Eisenhower‚ had an ideology that if a country became Communist‚ then Communism would spread to neighboring countries. Which influenced the
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The Effect of the French and Indian War The French and Indian War was the start of independence for America. It began in 1756 and ended due to the Treat of Paris in 1763. Although America gained territorial growth‚ the aftermath of the war greatly affected Great Britain and the British colonies because of the British’s large debt that lead to taxation on colonists’ goods and the American colonists’ accumulating admiration to acquire independence and political power from the British‚ which eventually
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Vietnam War Research Paper: During the 30 years of XX century Vietnam was at war. It all started in the 1940′s‚ when the Communists fought against French colonial rule‚ and was completed in 1975 with the fall of Saigon. The period‚ which the Vietnamese know as the “American War” and the Americans call the “Vietnam War”‚ lasted from 1965 to 1973‚ during the time of the U.S. intervention. The communist leader Ho Chi Minh led his forces based in the north and defeated the French in 1954
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Australia grew more divided between the anti-war movement and government supporters. Australia’s anti-war movement was strongly connected to protests against conscription‚ or ‘National Service’ as it was called. The conscription lasted for 42 years. 1950‚ Prime Minister Menzies introduced a limited form of conscription requiring three months of full- time training and home service. This system was abandoned in 1958. 6 Years later Menzies introduced a Bill in Parliament that became one of the most
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1. What was the cause of the French and Indian War and what was the most important battle of that war? In the 1750s‚ I was still not an American because the North America was colonized by Spain‚ France‚ and Britain. The three countries could not get on well with one another because they all wanted to occupy more lands of North America. The root cause of the French and Indian War were about the control of the Ohio region. In the late 1740s and early 1750s‚ the French sent an expedition down the Ohio
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watch others die or would you want to protest and prevent people from dying in war. In the film‚ Forrest Gump‚ Forrest is stuck in a society in which war is going on all around him. Forest‚ a country boy with no father‚ mental obstacles‚ and a naive personality is fighting physical and mental wars. In this time period‚ the 1960’s‚ our nation is split between war and anti-war. Hawks and doves. Forrest joins the Vietnam war‚ while his love interest becomes a hippie. I am taking the Forest and his decision
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War has a big impact on popular culture within society and in fact works into every aspect of pop culture such as music‚ television‚ film‚ and even video games. This is highly evident during the present war in Iraq which followed the tragic events of September 11‚ 2001. However the impact of war on popular culture can be traced back to World War I in the United States and even further in world history. As seen in the documentary “Militainment INC” we see fascinating‚ disturbing‚ and timely glimpses
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