Why did the US lose the war in Vietnam? When the year 1973 came around‚ the most powerful economic and military force America‚ were being forced to come to terms with the fact that they had suffered defeat in their war in Vietnam. Despite the vast gulf in financial and military prowess which swung in favour of the Americans‚ 57‚000 of their troops1 had lost their lives or were missing in action2‚ in a defeat so unanimous that the American armed forces today‚ use Vietnam as their key example on how
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When the United States decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan their ultimate goal was to intimidate the soviet union. The relationship between the two countries was beginning to unravel. The U.S. decided that the only way to gain the respect from the soviet union was to display the amount of power they truly had. The war between Japan and the United States was a good way to showcase the power that they had. The bombing in Japan made it clear that the United States held all the power. Therefore
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Abstract Strong economies compete on the basis of high value‚ not solely low cost. Yet in the United States‚ growing economic disparity hinders the nation’s ability to provide the high-value-added products and services necessary to compete in a global marketplace. The economic problems associated with unequal growth – stagnant wage growth and depressed market demand – in turn exacerbate social problems‚ such as crime‚ drug abuse‚ gangs‚ reliance on transfer payments‚ and family break-ups. The most
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The United States was wrong for annexing Hawaii because they took away the nation’s independency and culture. Prior to the United States’s interference‚ Hawaii was a “very successful” and independent country with “remarkably distinctive society that bound them together in elaborate webs of obligation‚ ritual and reverence for nature.” The United States had no right to interfere in the political and economical system of a foreign nation governed by its own monarchy. But an American born missionary
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The United States of America has undergone much in its brief 241 years of independence. In relation to other nations‚ the Untitled States is still very young‚ but that does not mean that it hasn’t experienced its fair share of obstacles. However‚ the amount of inequality among American citizens today is staggering‚ considering the country was founded by British colonists escaping inequality from England. The United States Declaration of Independence states that “all men are created equally”‚ these
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shaped the interpretation of religious freedom within the United States through rulings on cases regarding the First Amendment. Some of the early cases heard resulted over the amount of religious liberty and
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The term containment‚ introduced by the Truman Administration‚ describes the foreign policy pursued by the United States after the Second World War. The policy itself was an attempt to ’contain’ the Soviet Union within its current borders and frustrate any attempts of expansion. George F. Kennan‚ a diplomat and US State department advisor on Soviet affairs‚ introduced the term in his famous Anonymous X - article. Keenan suggested a ’ Long term‚ patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian
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February 21‚ 2011 Cause Paper Poverty is a very big problem in the United States that is said to have really been a problem in the 1930s‚ also known as the great depression. Poverty is the state of having a lack of necessities. Poverty effects over 58% or 43.8 million of Americas population. Some causes of Poverty in the United States is that many of the cities in the United States suffer from or have overpopulation‚ high standards of living‚ bad education systems‚ and have very few job oppurtunities
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However‚ “the majority of the people in the state were perpetually robbed of the vote” (Coates p. 3)‚ this was talking about Mississippi during the years of Jim Crow laws preventing African Americans to vote. From there without the ability to change the policies in place‚ African Americans lost their land and homes through manufactured crimes and their land was taken from them without a fair trial. Coates states from an investigation that tens of millions of dollars were taken
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Control and Prevention predict that by the year 2030‚ 42 percent of all Americans will be obese(Centers). According to the most recent found data‚ obesity rates during adulthood now exceed 35 percent in four states. The growing rate of obesity in America is too vast to be reversed. One main cause for the growing obesity rate in the United States is the amount of fast food restaurants. Fast food restaurants are around every corner‚ everywhere you look. You can get in your car and within 15 minutes
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