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…BOOK REPORT Barry Goldwater: Extremist of the Right. Many might say that the 1960's were a decade of extremism, whether it was the Vietnam war or the Civil Rights movement, there was always something going on, which resulted in vastly different…

…. North Vietnam was still attacking South Vietnam, but Nixon managed to reduce US troops from over 500thousand to only 30thousand. Nixon also reduced unemployment, postponed the inflation and had the first men on the moon. Nixon was being successful in his…

…died and perhaps a million Chinese. US troops suffered about 50,000 fatalities, roughly equal to the Vietnam conflict, but in a much shorter time(Leckie 67). Later neglect of remembrance of this war, in favor of the Vietnam War, World War I and II, has…

…began in the early 1960s in the United States and assumed major proportions as opposition grew to the war in Vietnam. The student rebellion then spread into Europe and other parts of the world. The movement was generally antimilitarist. The United States…

…years, Japan established one of the largest financial centers in the world. Soon, so-called high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs), notably, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and later Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, China, India and Vietnam, start…

…/germ warfare and who better to test it on than blacks and homosexuals. This is yet another piece of history. During the Vietnam War we worked on creating napalm, chemical Vaseline that will burn the skin off of a human being within the radius of where…

…yourself with the East, which made you a communist sympathizer, or you allied yourself the West. Many struggles and wars were fought along this political divide, an example of this would the Vietnam war. The two super powers used this country as a chessboard…

…, a special task force advised President Kennedy to send American troops to South Vietnam to assist the Diem Regime. Kennedy, thinking of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, felt that the United States should display their power, and South Vietnam was the place to demonstrate…

…Tim O'Brien's short story "The Things They Carried" informs us about the items that were carried by the soldiers of the Vietnam War. Not all of the items were physical, some were emotional: "They carried the emotional baggage of men who might die…

…. Popular culture will be seen differently by baby boomers and young people today. There are different issues that confront the two generations. With the end of the Vietnam Era for the baby boomers and the Watergate Scandal, this was a time of some peace…