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Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...

earth. It was this antagonistic attitude that only served to fuel Ho Chi Minhs desire to ward off foreign domination and American...

In five pages the book Eagle's Talons The American Experience at War and article 'When Did the Sixties Happen? Searching for New...

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...

and their determination, along with European allies, to protect other Asian nations from communism. In 1950 we see the following a...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

American values were the primary motivation of the U.S. participation in the southeast Asia conflict. Author Richard Slotkin expl...

In twelve pages this paper examines the Cold War, US policy of containment, the presidential campaign of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower...

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

(Kissinger 684). Rather than commit virtual genocide and lose the "soul of the United States," Johnson was finally forced to withd...

This was a misplaced fear. Communism would fall on its own, and even if it did not, the idea that it would spread like a disease i...

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...

This paper examines the 1895 to 1898 Spanish American War in an overview of its global consequences past and present in 10 pages....

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...

of Vietnam was born ("Earliest known history of Vietnam," 2007). In 1946, it was all agreed that Vietnam would be independent ("E...

The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...

first and second worlds, or the free world and the communist bloc. Many equated the U.S. as a major force of the first world and...

Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

In eight pages this paper examines the music and art popular during war times in a consideration of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacc...

In five pages this essay explores the meaning behind Abraham Lincoln's observations on 'necessities of war' by examining the Civil...