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…. It is celebrated on the night between Jan. 30 and Jan. 31. The president of South Vietnam, President Nguyen Thieu suggested a cease-fire, and communist General Vo Nguyen Giap readily accepted it. But, a “general offensive and a general uprising” was about to take place…

…and discussion can in-fact prevent war. The world had almost seen another world war, the effects of which would have been devastating because of the weapons involved. The Cuban Revolution was a background cause to the crisis. To the communist party in Cuba, Fidel…

…, and the Communists who were basically the people of the country fighting for new world order and communism to a degree. In the center was the Republicans and Liberals, a minority who didn't support one viewpoint or another. Was the overthrow of the Monarchy a good idea…

…to colonialism, such as the French Socialist Party, the French Communist Party, the International Colonial Union, and the Intercolonial Union. These organizations provided Ho an opportunity to study models of government that might preserve Vietnam's noncommercial…

…to clarify the extreme mood that it holds as the "Iron Curtain" of the Far East. Section B : Summary of Evidence <Tab/>The Korean War, from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953, was a conflict between communist North Korea and democratic South Korea…

…the South falling into 'communist' hands. In August of that year, Lyndon Johnson, who had taken over the American presidency in the wake of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, ordered the first air strikes on the North. Only 6 months later the “rolling thunder…

…Rouge as a Significant Source of Change The most significant source of social change in Cambodia in contemporary times is the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmers Rouges from 1975-1978. Their Communist Party of Kampuchea torn the country apart with war, genocide…

…struggled for their independence from France during the First Indochina War. At the end of this war, the country was temporarily divided into North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam came under the control of the Vietnamese Communists who had opposed France and who…

…regions. Both Russia and America became politically involved in Korea, therefore, each set up strong military and governmental ties. The United States wanted Korea to be held under democratic rule, while the Soviets wanted communist rule. They took…

…in 1991. (a portrait of high Albania) Writing recent history is always problematic; an objective account of the past fifty years in Albania, where extremes and excesses of the communist regime are recent memory, is probably impossible. But everyone agrees…