The Vietnam War (1955-1975) is probably the most problematic of all American wars. First, it is morally ambiguous. It was both a war against communism and a war to suppress nationalist self-determination. Second, it can be (and was) very confusing. American objectives were not always well defined. A...

Vietnam P.O.W. 'sThere was much significance in the events of the Prisoners of War during the time of the Vietnam War. The POW events affected the way in which war was conducted, the outcome and experience to soldiers, and America's future as well. The events that took place with the POWs were an im...

\"But out of the gobbledygook, comes a very clear thing: you can\'t trust the government; you can\'t believe what they say, and you can\'t rely on their judgment; and the – the implicit infallibility of presidents, which has been an accepted thing in America, is badly hurt by this because it shows...

Vietnam looked toward the French for assistance in fighting the Communists. Ho Chi Men was successful in establishing a regime in northern Vietnam before the French could return and reestablish her forces in 1945. France was able to reestablish forces in South Vietnam but negotiations between Vietna...

The Vietnam War & Fred Shepherd The Vietnam War was fought in 1964-1975. Before United States involvement, Vietnam was a French colony and the Vietnamese wanted their freedom. They fought for their independence from the French and were successful in 1955. The United States wanted an ally in...

The Vietnam War was a war between the Southern and Northern zones of Vietnam. It began gradually during 1959-60. In the early 1960s, the United States was worried about the situation in South Vietnam. They believed there were over 20,000 Viet Cong guerillas in the south, and about another 100,000 of...

Book Report The First Casualty By Phillip Knightley Robin Reid October 29, 2000 Persuasion and Propaganda Miss Denise Childs Knightley, Phillip. The First Casualty. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ...

Media and Propaganda Media and propaganda have played an important role in swaying and pacifying the opinions of the people of nations throughout wars in the twentieth century. Media is information and news that is brought about by an ...

In the 1950s, the People\'s Republic of China became a growing source of concern for the United States. China\'s expansion of power and influence was potentially leading to the spread of communism in the world, especially in Asia. The United States wanted to keep its position in Asia, so they decide...

To what extent did the American public's reaction to the Vietnam War shape its course?It is the course of the war that shaped the American people's reaction and not the reaction of the American people that affected the course of the war. American public's reaction may have played a small part in sha...

Subject: Tim O'Brien's-The Things They Carried Eating Them Away For young people, the Vietnam War is a thing of the past and they can only learn about it from second hand sources. In Tim O'brien's The Things They Carried, it becomes very apparent that the Vietnam conflict has proved to be...

Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War And The Battle For America's Hearts And Minds. By Melvin Small. (Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources Inc, 2002. pp. 163). The antiwar movement during the Vietnam Conflict was the most effective and long lasting of all the antiwar movements in American history. Up t...

At the surface, the American Revolution and the Vietnam War seem like two completely different wars. But as I looked closer, I noticed that there were many similarities between the two wars, mainly in how the losing nation was defeated.Both the British in the American Revolution and the Americans in...

The Ho Chi Minh Campaign of April 1975 marked the end of the Republic of Vietnam with the fall of Saigon on the 30th and the beginning of Communist rule. The United States could not believe that the war they had pumped billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of soldiers into was in vain; it w...

"Indian Country Revisited" When I was younger, I asked my teacher, all the time in fact, why do we have to learn this. Her response was always, "you'll need it when you grow up." Math, science, and English, I understood, but history was different. She said that w...

In every person's life they face life-altering decisions that could affect not only their life, but also the lives of many others. For most this decision is hard to come by, and an overwhelming amount of time is spent deciding upon the best possible outcome. For President Kennedy that decisio...

The idyllic 1950's to the turbulent 1960's represented a dynamic shift in American culture. The end of World War II prompted a boom economy and the American dream of a your own house with the white picket fence was born. Although the 50's were picturesque in some respect the end of WWII entrenched ...

Through a good portion of the 20th century, the US had many different forms of involvement in Southeast Asia. During this time, the United States was under the leadership of several different presidents. Therefore, the foreign policy, especially concerning Southeast Asia and Vietnam, was constantly ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien was very helpful in starting to examine the literature of the Vietnam War more closely. This book is a good example of a piece of literature about the Vietnam War. It is important to see an archetype of the literature before an analysis of the literature, as a ...

In the autobiography, A Rumor of War, Philip Caputo talks about his experience in the Vietnam War. From the starting of the book he tells us why he joined the marines till the day he was relived from duty. A Rumor of War is a story of the war and how it changes men. When Caputo entered the war wi...

The Anti-War Movement J,J,J,J,United States participation in the Vietnam War was a subject of much debate among the American public. While many Americans supported the United States involvement in the War, in agreement with the Government that American assistance was needed in order to stop the spre...

Perspectives of War Essay Perspectives of war have varied overtime, from people viewing it as glorious and honourable, to seeing it as a horrific and horrible occurrence. In this essay I will talk about two poems Hero by Siegfreid Sassoon and Disabled by Wilfred Owen and also a movie called ...

War, to even think about that makes one shudder with utter fear and disgust. War is a terrible evil under any circumstance. Thinking back to some of the recent wars, such as World War 2, Vietnam, and Yugoslavie and one sits back and envsisons the horrible acts that war causes. One can see the scenes...

Korea and Vietnam had similar beginnings as far as revolutions are concerned. Korea had been occupied by Japan and Vietnam had been occupied by France. The United States and other U.N. nations put millions of dollars into both wars, but pretty much came out empty handed. At first it seemed as ...

WAR VETERANS Throughout a process of the past few days we have heard from four different veterans including one from world war one and three from the Vietnam war. All of the war veterans had petty mush the same experience, all of them where in combat, they all had suffered during the war and s...