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    referred to as the Second Indochina War in the East Asia region was a war that many in the United States felt was unnecessary. However during four separate presidential terms the Commander and Chief of the United States made a decision that America’s involvement was necessary. Were these decisions for the betterment of the United States and its allies or a show of how big of a military power house the United States had become? Vietnam had a long history of being ruled by foreign powers. The outside influence

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    World War I has raised several questions over time. The greatest of which is the involvement of the United States of America in the war. After having been neutral for some time, the country finally got actively in the war. Many historians and scholars have questioned the legitimacy of this involvement. Looking back, it gets clearer that the country’s involvement in World War 1 was for the greater part uncalled for. Of important consideration is the country’s readiness for war. At the time of World

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    Although Russia formally denied any military involvement in Ukraine, soldiers in unmarked Russian fatigues entering the Crimean peninsula and the “accidental” placement of artillery pieces beyond the Russo-Ukrainian border didn’t make it very hard to figure out who was responsible for the invasion of Crimea. Everyone’s theories were proven true when Russian President Vladimir Putin officially announced that the Russian Federation was annexing the Crimean Peninsula from the Ukrainian government. In

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    the United States of America out of the war and that is why he should be elected again to serve as President. Though this made a valid argument to show that Wilson was smart to keep us out of war, many events took place that continued to anger the U.S. which eventually made them declare war on Germany on April 6th, 1917 (World War I). In doing this, they broke their policy of non intervention. The United States held out of the Great War for so long because of

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    The United States should have entered World War I. The main reason why the United States should have entered World War I is because they needed to defend their people. According to Source 1, President Woodrow Wilson claimed that the U.S. should join the war in response to the sinking of the Lusitania ship. In his speech to Congress on April 2, 1917, he claimed, “American ships have been sunk, American lives taken...the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be.” He confirmed that the U.S. was

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    Robert D. Crutchfield when speaking of the social class differences to explain criminal involvement in the United States in his published work “From Slavery to Social Class to Disadvantage: An Intellectual History of the Use of Class to Explain Racial Differences in Criminal Involvement” asks an important question, why do we always connect crimes with race? Crutchfield states “When race is not the focus, differences in ethnicity, religion, immigration status, or some other marker of being “the other”

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    War was a result of the United States’ involvement in the Cold War against the USSR. The main goal of the United States during the Cold War was to contain communism and prevent the USSR from affecting other countries with their communist government. One of the concerns for President Dwight D. Eisenhower was that if communism spread to Vietnam, then other countries in Southeast Asia would become more susceptible to adopting communism. As a result, The United States entered a war in Vietnam, where

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    Ask anyone about the current issues in Iraq and you will hear a multitude of answers, questions, remarks, backlash, and support for our countries involvement. Sure some things could have been done better, some things could have been avoided completely, but when you talk to someone who has personally witnessed 184 women setting themselves on fire in protest to the way men are treating them you can’t help but admire the change today. With the help of US and various foreign countries, Iraq is rebuilding

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    A comprehensive analysis of the United States' involvement in Indonesia during the Vietnam War is a virtual case study in lessons learned and mistakes not to make during martial encounters. These errors and the lessons they provided spanned a number of different areas, and include noticeable blunders in social and cultural contexts, presidential leadership, and in diplomatic negotiations. Although the U.S. made a number of mistakes and miscalculations concerning the cultural needs of the South Vietnamese

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    Reasons for United States' Involvement in World War I At first the public opinion of Americans was firmly set on neutrality. The majority of people had little or no concerns of the affairs of the rest of the world - why should America interfere with the conflicts of other nations? Americans supported a policy of isolationism, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1916 on the grounds that he had kept them out of the war. The president also knew only too well that

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