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and government officials. Minh was very happy with this uprising of this radical group and wanted to support the Vietcong in every possible way. Minh started a trail called the Ho Chin Minh trail which ran from the North Vietnam all the way through Thailand and Cambodia to Saigon the capitol of the south. He supported the Vietcong with anything they needed through this trail. With Minh gaining more power and diem losing his support of what little he had was a big concern for the United States. The people

The main materials used are rubber, steel and plastic. The rubber starts out in rubber plantations by farmers in Thailand, being a tier three supplier, and is then produced and shipped out by the Thai Rubber Latex Corporation, being a second tier supplier.18 The steel starts out in Australia, as iron ore, in mines excavated by Rio Tinto, being the tier three suppliers

The difference between the Arabs and the South and Southeast Asians! The lure of regionalism — a belief in regional co-operation and integration as a method to advance a region’s shared political, economic or security interests — has had profound effects on the foreign policies of all countries. The conventional wisdom is that such collaborative efforts will serve as the building blocks of a future Economic Community, as well as Unions. Many attempts at uniting as a region

Vietnam is situated in Southeast Asia on the eastern coast of the Indochinese peninsula. At over 2,000 miles in length, the coastline is surrounded on two sides by the smaller Gulfs of Tonkin and Thailand, and also the South China Sea. Neighboring countries include Cambodia, China, and Laos (Vietnam-Geography, n.d.). The landscape within Vietnam varies greatly depending on location and is comprised of mountains, hills, dense forests, deltas, and lowlands. The importance of the topography will

On February 24, 1965, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized Operation ROLLING THUNDER to commence against North Vietnam. ROLLING THUNDER, the longest bombing campaign ever conducted by the United States Air Force, lasted from 1965 to 1968. (Tilford, “Operation ROLLING THUNDER”) There were several reasons why President Johnson chose to begin an all-out bombing campaign against North Vietnam at this time. The United States wanted to prevent the spread of communism by enforcing the

multiple nations, making the right of sovereign of this territory ambiguous. The geographical location of the Islands makes it difficult to determine in which countries border it falls into, since Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia all have a shoreline with the territory. A liberalistic approach to understand that the island are under Taiwan jurisdiction geographically are ignored by the realist nature of China’s suborn claim, exhibiting that the realistic ideology

While living and serving in a Chiang Mai prison in Thailand, I met with a radical Muslim man named, Ali, who was serving a life sentence in the Thai prison because, he murdered a Thai woman. As growing up in Pakistan, it is very challenging to love those who persecute and hate you. Initially, he didn’t want to do anything with Christianity. But after meeting him for at least six months, with difficult conversations, he decided to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. From that point on,

Document Analysis 2 Document 1: The Truman Doctrine, 1947 Harry Truman’s speech to Congress on March 12, 1947 tailored itself to opposing the spread of communism. The “containment doctrine” announced its efforts to support Greece and Turkey to the tune of “$400,000,000” (Merrill, 222) in economic aid and military assistance, which the latter did not eventually transpire. The plea was made amid Greece’s civil war (1946-49), where as a result of World War II the “Germans had destroyed virtually all

Bangkok lies above the Gulf of Thailand, making it prone to flooding. The city is also prone to flooding due to being situated on natural flood plains that has many networks of canals for transportation and irrigation. In 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami killed over 1,000 people and damaged property, hitting the west coast of southern Thailand. Devastating floods occurred in Bangkok during the 2011 monsoon season, triggered by the landfall

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam Vietnam stretches one thousand miles from China in the north to the Gulf of Thailand in the south. The Gulf of Tokin and the South China Sea border the eastern side of the country. In the west, the Annamite Mountains separate Vietnam from Cambodia and Laos. To the north, along Vietnamese-Chinese border are the Hoang Lien Mountains, containing the highest point in Vietnam. Hanoi is the capital and Ho Chi Minh City, previously Saigon, is the largest city. Vietnam