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    control the trade. Britain in the past had exclusive ports and trading with other specific countries. This was problematic for the United States, its economy and the United States wanted free trade globally. This was the initial cause for the involvement in Vietnam. The United States wanted to establish a liberal globe. Liberalism is not what one may know today. Currently, the term liberalism is used to define as to tax the rich, to spend a lot of money and give money to the poor

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    The Vietnam War was one of the worst wars in the United States history. The reason for the United States involvement was due to the start of communism in North Vietnam. The citizens in South Vietnam feared the control of North Vietnam and were worried that the north would take control of the south. The communist North Vietnam had support from the Soviet Union and China, making the South Vietnamese vulnerable to the north. In their time of struggle the South Vietnamese were able to receive aid

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    The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War helped for the South Vietnamese for a while, but there were so many bad things and bad outcomes of the war. So many bad things Tet Offensive, My Lai Massacre, and the photograph "Soldiers Carrying A Wounded Comrade in a Swampy Area" shows the bad conditions. So many innocent people were either injured or killed. The U.S. should have never gotten involved in the Vietnam War. The U.S. shouldn't have gotten involved with Vietnam and the Vietnam War

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    As many as two million Vietnamese civilians were killed during the Vietnam War(Spector). Would this number have been different if certain things off the battlefield in United States did not occur. The Vietnam War was a war between the communist regime of North Vietnam leaded by Ho Chi Minh, and the non-communist South Vietnam. The United States fought with the south in fear that if all of Vietnam became communist then the domino effect would occur and all of Asia would turn to communism. The war

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    United States involvement in the Middle East After World War 2, the United States took over Britain’s job of overseeing the Middle East. The United States tried to avoid conflict while preventing the spread of communism. They successfully stopped the spread of communism, but couldn’t have done much worse trying to prevent conflict and stabilize the Middle East. The United States policy destabilized the Middle East, Iraq in particular, by overthrowing the Hussein regime at a poor time and deepening

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    Have you ever heard of the Korean War? If you have, why was The United States involved? The Korean War took place from 1950-1953 and it was when North Korea invaded South Korea and to try and get the communists out of southern end of the country. The president sent the troops for multiple reasons and the outcome of the war was brutal. However, The United States played a huge role on the outcome of the war. The President was the one who sent the troops to Korea but what was the reason? Harry S

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    Soviets Union. When the Korean War Started US pledge to South Korea because they didn’t want Communist to spread But the US didn’t declare war. General MacArthur takes a risk and counterattack at the port of Inchon. North Korean forces are pushed back all they way to the Yalu River, which was the border of North Korea and Communist county china. China enters the war and they Pushed US forces back into South Korean. The war continues for several years. The US contain communist by going to war helping

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    murder set off a concatenation of actions that would lead to the start of WWI hardly just one month later on July 28, 1914. Even though the war started on July 28, 1914, U.S.A. did not intervene until April 6, 1917. One of the reasons for the US to not join until April is because during that time they were on a mode of Isolationism. The whole time the U.S felt as if they should distance themselves from European conflict. Even the congress and president wanted to stay out of the conflict. In

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    There is no single fixed reason as to why the U.S. entered the Vietnam War. The United States became involved in the war step by step until it was completely committed, which was when Japan took over Indochina. There is, however, multiple reasons as to why stopping communism in Vietnam became a major U.S. priority. Presidents Eisenhower and Truman both advocated doing everything in their power to keep communism, which is a social system where all property is collectively owned instead of by individuals

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    Does everything that the UN authorize really benefit those that it is meant for? The United Nations is known for its unilateral strive for peace worldwide. The only time that the United Nations ever decides to intervene in a conflict is always for the betterment of the people that are involved. Does every choice that the UN come to actually do specifically that?The premise of this paper is to argue that when the UN authorized NATO to intervene with the rebellion that was going on in Libya (during

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