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    The Vietnam War

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    Laos and Cambodia) due to the abundant harvesting riches that were favorable with their own economy. Historically, Vietnam first established the communist party through the influence of China after their conversion into a Communist country in 1949. Ho Chi Min, a nationalist leader, had

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    Vietnam Conflict The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era conflict that started in 1946 and ended in 1974, taking nearly 30 years to resolve. The war was fundamentally a conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, where the North was communist and South was not. The United States, France, the United Kingdom and other non-communist allies supported the non-communist South Vietnam. China, Russia (USSR), Cuba, Cambodia and other Communist allies supported the regime in the north. North Vietnam saw the

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    Out of an infinite amount of numbers, one that has a great significance is the number five hundred and four. There are many things that five hundred and four could represent. It could be the number of planes that took off from an airport today, or the amount of days until a soldier comes home to his family, if he ever does. In particular, this number represents a group of people killed during the My Lai Massacre on March 16th, 1968. This very sad day occurring during the Vietnam War. This war was

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    In her book The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, author Marilyn Young examines the series of political and military struggles between the United States and Vietnam, a nation that has been distinctively separated as the South and the North. Young chooses to express the daily, weekly, monthly progresses of the affairs collectively called the Vietnam Wars, focusing on the American interventions in the foreign soil. She seeks to provide an answer to a question that has haunted the world for years: What was the

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    More often than not though, cities do not promote physical activity, but instead promote sitting. Different ways of transportation are not the only negative impact urban environments have on the physical activity of its inhabitants, Urban environments are known for the number of jobs that are more stationary than rural environment jobs. Office jobs in urban environments are plentiful and often pay more than rural jobs that tend to be more physically involved. Due to this, many individuals since

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    French colonization played a huge role in the spread of communism in Vietnam, due to poor treatment. I’m writing about this topic because as Americans we know communism is wrong. Yet, I feel that it’s important for people to know why the Vietnamese people were communist and how it came about. French colonization lead to many rebellions in Vietnam. Since the Vietnamese people were in such a bad state and wanted to be liberated they turned to communism. The Vietnamese rebellions used communism

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    Commitment Trap

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    With regards to Vietnam under Kennedy's presidency, there are many arguments both for and against the idea of commitment trap, Kennedy certainly escalated military involvement in Vietnam but did he have a choice? Or had his predecessors committed him in Vietnam long before he came into the Whitehouse? There is no doubt that Johnson was the one who fully placed ground troops in Vietnam in '65 and created his legacy of 'Johnson's war', but did any of the previous presidents give him any other option

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    Noble Feat Of Nike

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    and currency value is lower than other countries. It makes the worker no matter man and woman. All of their slaveries are a lot lower than the worker hired in the mainland United States. In fact, in the text “The average pay at a Nike factory close to Ho Chi Minh is $54 a month” and compare to the minimum wage we receive in the United States, our lower class worker be a millionaire in Vietnam, how funny can the world be. Therefore American companies dug up a lot of resource and money just by take advantage

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    The Vietnam war had a couple different events and groups of people like the Ho Chi Minh, the causes of the war, and the soldiers of the Vietnam war. The end of the Vietnam war was a major event in the war. The U.S introduced a foreign policy towards north Vietnam. The Vietnam war was not for the United States to enter the Vietnam war the president for the United States was Franklin Roosevelt then George Washington. The country Vietnam was roughly 127,000 square miles (about the size of New Mexico)

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    Based on today’s society to the 20th century, you can conclude that the two-time periods are very much alike dealing with discrimination, unequal rights, and gender inequality. Although many may not recognize it by turning a blind eye, when a protest does erupt, that is when people come to a realization which then becomes too late. This ideology connects to how wars are often started amongst individual’s beliefs and differences. With references from different professors and publishers, you are able

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