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…Vietnam: Take 2 We are on the brink of World War III with good old Uncle ‘W’ leading the way. A black gold owning Texan, the most powerful man in the world, who can’t finish complete thoughts at the State of the Union address is going to lead us…

…Youth Protest of the Vietnam War In 1961 president Kennedy decided to send American troops to Vietnam to stop the spread of Communism and to show the United States' strength of resolve. At the time he did not know the turmoil he would bring to his…

…Would going to war with Iraq be Vietnam all over again? Most people say no, but there are arguments for both answers. This question is an ongoing debate among scholars and politicians across the world. To understand the answer to this question we must…

…The Impossible Victory: Vietnam In September 1973, a former government official in Laos, Jerome Doolittle, wrote in The New York Times: “ …After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us”…

…Apocalypse Now can be seen as a metaphor for the Vietnam War Era. It can be seen as a metaphor due to many factors. One factor is that the movie shows how the Vietnam War Era had a horrific impact on the way men thought. Second, it shows how men forgot…

…Response and Analysis 1A) The Vietnam War, often thought by many as unnecessary, was a crushing, traumatic experience to all the men and women who were involved in it. Most of the soldiers were just kids who were essentially taken away from…

…Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War, begins by briefly looking at how previous wars such as the American Revolution, WWI, WWII, and the Korean War dealt with race relations in comparison to the Vietnam War. Earlier wars had…

…Zaire and Vietnam – Countries in Turmoil After, before, and during the Vietnam War, America has tried to push democracy, or at least democratic ideas, onto other countries. In Africa, Zaire was a country that was heavily influenced by the morals…

…change slowly developed in the cultural, social, and political beliefs of America, particularly the youth. The death of President Kennedy, the new music, the quest for civil rights, the popularity of mind-altering drugs, the senselessness of the Vietnam War…

…Vietnam War and the Tet Offensive Vietcong guerrilla fighters violated the temporary truce they had pledged to observe around the lunar new year celebrations, and surged into more than one hundred towns and cities, including Saigon. Shifting the war…