The French Empire was a strong entity that lasted for well over a century. This empire began to disintegrate after World War II. Although the people of the colonies were hopeful that the war would lead to the end of imperialism‚ but the Fourth Republic‚ which came to power during the end of World War II‚ voted to continue the Empire. There were several reasons for this vote to continue the empire. The French wanted to dull the humiliation of the German occupation‚ use the colonial resources to help
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military victory in Vietnam was no longer possible. He wanted to end the war as quickly and as soon as possible. He wrote that‚ “without continuous and massive aid from either or both of the Communist giants‚ the leaders of North Vietnam would not have been able to carry on the war for more than a few months.” He planned to conduct a two prong agenda to end the war; first by changing the relationships between the DRV‚ USSR‚ and China and second‚ by a massive expansion of the war to force the DRV into
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The Vietnam War which went from 1965 to 1975 involved America and its allies‚ including Australia‚ aiming to prevent South Vietnam from an invasion by the communist North Vietnaese. There were many key reasons for Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The Americans provided valuable support when they arrived at our aid during the WWII so Australia felt a responsibility to return a favour to the US to maintain healthy foreign relations. Australia also became implicated in the war due to the
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Therefore‚ America trained the South Vietnamese army to fight the Viet Cong and in 1963‚ 16‚000 advisors were training troops in South Vietnam. Many of these troops were not professionals. These men were young‚ inexperienced‚ and were from America’s minority groups. This was one of their first mistakes - using troops who were not experienced or highly skilled. All they had was basic training behind them. US troops used helicopter gunships as well as aircrafts‚ allowing them to have total control
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During the War in Korea‚ the main intention was to gain South Koreas territory and to stop the spread of Communism. The war never really ended even while the Peace negotiations were currently happening. (Wikipedia) The war didn’t end till South Korea gained back its territory. South Korea built it’s heavily armed border between their side of the country and the North Koreans. The U.S. troops didn’t withdrawal from their occupation in South Korea since the main intention’s to stop
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The Cold War is defined as the geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Because of the tension between the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc‚ the other countries started to get involved in the Cold War. Different beliefs clash with each other‚ which led to an increase in tensions around the world. Due to the countries having different political systems‚ it created conflicts in countries like Vietnam and Cuba‚ but those conflicts eventually brings independence. First of
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The question that lingers in the back of people’s minds‚ is how long they have before their “clock” comes to a stop. As people live their lives‚ day in and day out‚ their lives are constantly at risk‚ by the slightest things in life. As death is inevitable‚ people fear the unknown so people put their faith into religion. As religion gives people hope and comfort into believing in something. As William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1603‚ Shakespeare expresses the different perspectives of life and the
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Fleming was convinced that penicillin could not last long enough in the human body to kill pathogenic bacteria‚ and stopped studying it after 1931. He restarted clinical trials in 1934‚ and continued to try to get someone to purify it until 1940 The chemical structure of penicillin was determined by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in the early 1940s. Penicillin has since become the most widely used antibiotic to date‚ and is still used for many Gram-positive bacterial infections. A team of Oxford research
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Presidential Flop Ford did not last long in office‚ having only been there for around two years after Nixon had resigned. He was known as one of the most useless presidents in the White House and had gotten to office without ever campaigning for either of the two top executive offices. The man wasn’t given much time to implement any solid bills in that short period of time‚ but he did do a few semi-notable actions that put him in history as more than the president who did nothing. The first action
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Side of the Vietnam War The Positive Side of the Vietnam War War is a tough gritty world that describes the destruction of people and countries in the name of nationalism; it is difficult to justify war and give a positive outcome when shown the disaster it causes. The Vietnam War was an extremely difficult war and is widely seen as a catastrophe by the world‚ even with that being the case there is still some positives that have been extracted from the situation. The Vietnam War is a heavily
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