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Daniel Ellsberg
404 wordsPentagon Papers; The Truth to War On June 31, 1971, President Nixon picked up a copy of his New York Times newspaper and found the 1st story on the Pentagon Papers. The Pentagon Papers was a hidden government document that had information on the Vietnam War. It was also a government study in Southeast Asia. Daniel Ellsberg knew that the government was hiding something. Daniel Ellsberg was a political activist. He was the one who leaked the information to the New York Times. Daniel Ellsberg was m...
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Lessons From The Vietnam War
894 wordsLessons of the Vietnam War American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged in another war, against a much less resilient enemy, the American people. Here, the prospects for sucess are much greater. The battleground is ideological, not military. At stake are the lessons to be drawn from the American war in Indochina; the outcome will determine the course and character of new imperial ventures. (Noam Chomsky, 1975) Quite often the lesson of history...
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Effects Of The Vietnam War On Vietnam
1,102 wordsAugust 1954: US National Security Council decided Vietnam Settlement represented "a major forward stride of communism which might lead to the loss of SE Asia" (seeing the conflict in Cold War terms) President Eisenhower agreed to aid the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. Facts about Diem Regime: Refused to hold reunification talks or hold elections promised under the terms of the Geneva agreement. Autocratic regime. Widespread corruption and nepotism. Unfair distribution of wealth He had repressive polic...
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Military Involvement In Vietnam
3,154 wordsMore About The 1968 Tet Offensive For several thousand years, Vietnamese Lunar New Year has been a traditional celebration that brings the Vietnamese a sense of happiness, hope and peace. However, in recent years, It also bring back a bitter memory full of tears. It reminds them the 1968 bloodshed, a bloodiest military campaign of the Vietnam War the North Communists launched against the South. The "general offensive and general uprising" of the north marked the sharp turn of the Vietnam War. To...
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Media's Coverage Of The Vietnam War
2,219 wordsThe Problem With Vietnam Wartime in the United States has always placed pressure on the government and the citizens of the country to provide support by whatever means to the situation. During World War II, that support was propagated by the government in the form of censorship and a strategic public relations plan to maintain the public opinion in favor of the cause. Glorification of America's involvement in the war helped America maintain the image of "a cause worth fighting for". Technology a...
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Kovic's View Of The Vietnam War
2,171 wordsBorn on the Fourth of July Patriotism, bravery, freedom, are all words to help describe the qualities of the United States. As Americans, we all have a sense of loyalty and respect toward our county. What happens when one comes to the realization that our country stands for one thing, but in all reality means something different This is the trap that Ron Kovic was sucked into during his experience in the Vietnam War. Kovic started out like most Americans. He had great pride and love for his coun...
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Vietnam War
1,063 wordsThe Reasons Why the Vietnam War Lasted So Long It is said that the U.S. has never gotten over the Vietnam War and it is still a controversial war, these are the reasons why the Vietnam War lasted so long. In 1973, the United States and North Vietnam signed a treaty called the Paris Peace Agreement; this was the beginning of the withdrawal of all remaining U.S. forces from Vietnam which was mandated by the treaty ('Vietnam War,' 1991). Also in the agreement was the return of U.S. prisoners of war...
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American Soldiers Return Home
586 wordsFreedom Rides, Vietnam, and Social activism among the youths of America have left the 60's with a very profound effect on our society. Without question, the decade of the 1960's was one of the most controversial in American History. Throughout this period of social unrest, anti-war attitudes were gaining prevalence in a peace-loving subculture, and individuals began to question certain aspects of governmental policy and authority. This was the decade of peace and war, optimism and despair, cultu...
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Ho And North Vietnam
923 wordsThe reasons why the Vietnam War lasted so long is a very controversial subject among Americans. There is no simple answer to as why the war lasted so long. Many factors have to be considered when analyzing the war. The first factor that has to be considered is whether or not the U.S. really belonged in the Vietnam War in the first place. The initial reason that the U.S. became involved in Vietnam was because they thought that North Vietnam was going to Russia and China, which were communist coun...
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Gulf Of Tonkin Near North Vietnam
1,079 wordsBarry Goldwater, Arizona state senator, decided to run for the office of President of the United States of America in 1964. His opponent was Lyndon Baynes Johnson who had held the office the year previous due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. One of the biggest issues for both candidates was the situation in Vietnam. Vietnam was the longest war in which the US took part. It lasted between 1957 and 1975, but the US did not become officially involved until 1965. Vietnam, a small country in ...
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War In Vietnam
1,467 wordsVietnam was a small Asian country, 9000 miles away from the United States. Yet America felt that its national interest was threatened strongly enough to fight a war there. The explanation for this lies in the fear caused by the spread of communism at that time. The role of communism was extremely important in this conflict. You see, the US had to enter the war to stop the spread of communism in Asia since North Vietnam was communist. If North Vietnam was to succeed in converting Vietnam into a c...
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Departure Of The American Troops South Vietnam
1,909 wordsNorth Vietnam was battling for ownership of South Vietnam, so they could be a unified communist nation. To prevent the domino effect and further spread of communism, the USA troops in 1965 went into action against the Viet Cong until 1975. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by a third world nation, but also lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won, or prevented in the first place. The USA could have and should have won this war, with a combination of better weap...
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Vietnam Lynda Van Devanter
1,184 wordsThe Vietnam conflict was one of the harshest, most savage wars in the history of the world. It was also the only time in military history that the United States was unsuccessful in defeating the enemy. Beginning in 1964, U.S. involvement in Vietnam came as the result of a perceived threat of communism. At the time, Northern Vietnam possessed a dictatorial communist form of government similar to that of the Soviet Union. As a result, according to the United States government, it posed a grave dan...
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Film Isn't About The Vietnam War
843 wordsApocalypse Now is movie about a Vietnam soldier with a checkered past, and who goes on an Odyssey like mission to terminate with extreme prejudice an American army Colonel. Who has gone insane in the Cambodian jungle. It is not a movie that glorifies the struggle between righteous American's democracy versus an evil communist Vietnamese. In Apocalypse Now the line between good and evil is blurred. Apocalypse is a reflection of the anti-imperial and the general anti-war movement of the era, and t...
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Fall Of South Vietnam To Communism
1,323 wordsRobert McNamara In Retrospect Random House New York, 1995 Vietnam had long since been a place of controversy, and where our government focused its fear of communism for many years. Throughout the Kennedy and Johnson administrations the government maintained that the war between the Communist north and the south can only be won by the South Vietnamese, and that our military cannot win it for them. It stressed that the fall of South Vietnam to communism would threaten the rest of the western world...
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Robert S McNamara Vietnam
1,667 wordsIn Retrospect By: Robert S. McNamara Vietnam had long since been a place of controversy, and where the American government focused its fear of communism for many years. Throughout the Kennedy and Johnson administrations the government maintained that the war between the Communist north and the south could have only been won by the South Vietnamese, and that US military could not have won it for them. It stressed that the fall of South Vietnam to communism would threaten the rest of the western w...
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Australian Involvement In The Vietnam War
3,122 wordsBetween 1962 and 1972, Vietnam was the battleground for Australia's largest war commitment to date. No other issue in Australian society has seen as much controversy for so long as the question and wisdom of the Australian involvement in the Vietnam War. During this ten-year period, many protest movements arose and questioned this involvement and the suffering it was causing, not only on Australians but also on the local Vietnamese. An end to Australian involvement was demanded in many pretests ...
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North And South Vietnam
1,418 wordsThe Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. Also called the Indochina War, it was said to have been started in 1957 when communist rebels of North Vietnam launched an attack on The South. The country was divided because of the communistic views of the North. Because the North was trying to take over and make it a communist country the U.S. then got involved. In 1958 we sent our first troops in. This caused much controversy throughout America. It still affects all the people w...
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Respect By Other Nations The Vietnam War
885 wordsTheron Ever age POLS 301 March 20, 2003 Why we should not have fought the Vietnam War Ask the class, do all wars have a winner and loser: Sometimes the answer to the question who won or lost reminds me of those who, having lost a football game, retort, "We beat you in the statistics". In football what matters is the final score, not how many first downs, completed passes, yards per carry, or how few penalties a team gets on its way to victory or defeat. USA 90% destroyed, Russia 100% destroyed: ...
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Vietnam War And The War On Terrorism
2,762 wordsThose would do not learn history, are doomed to repeat it. This saying can apply to the current events happening in the U.S. On Sept. 11 terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade buildings and the Pentagon killing thousands of innocent people. Since that day, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, has vowed to have justice against those responsible for the attacks. The U.S. suspects that Osama bid Laden was the mastermind behind the terror. They believe that he is hiding in Afg...
