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The U.S. Economy and the Vietnam War, 2002.
Review of three books on the state of the U.S. economy, before, during, and after the Vietnam War.
965 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper reviews different literature discussing the economic implications of the Vietnam War on the U.S. Economy. The books analyzed are "Lyndon Johnson and The Wars for Vietnam", "Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes", and "The Economic Consequences of the Vietnam War". The paper concludes with the finding that the U.S. economy was significantly damaged by American involvement in the war and that American presidents of that period were aware of the damage being done to the economy but pursued war nonetheless.
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"Perhaps the most eloquent work in this regard is that of Anthony Campagna (1991) with his book titled "The Economic Consequences of the Vietnam War." Campagna in this book traces the historical performance of the US economy along with the country's involvement in the unwanted War. According to him the US involvement began during the Truman administration when the US promised to help the French government in their governance of the Indochina region. The US after the World War II followed a containment of Communism foreign policy and to help the French meant containment of the Asian and China region effectively."
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U.S. Failure In the Vietnam War, 1999.
Discusses reasons for American intervention and failure.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 10 sources, $ 71.95
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Discusses reasons for American intervention and failure. Examines its background from WWII, the role of Presidents, Cold War ideology, strengths of North Vietnam and Viet Cong and military and political aspects.
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"U. S. ENTRY INTO AND FAILURE IN THE VIETNAM WAR
This research paper analyzes the reasons why the United States entered the Vietnam War as it did and why its military intervention in that war failed.
After initially opposing French colonial policy during World War II, the United States became convinced after 1945, and especially after the communist victory in China in 1949, that U.S. vital interests required that a communist takeover of South Vietnam be resisted. Toward that end it supported with military and economic assistance the French war effort in Indochina and, after the Geneva accords were signed in 1954, the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam.
During the administration of President John Kennedy, American assistance to Diem increased, including military ..."
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U.S. and Vietnam?s Misperceptions during the Vietnam Conflict, 2002.
This paper explains how the U.S. and Vietnam?s misperceptions of each other affected the way they fought the war, mentioning the My Lai massacre and the affect this had on the way Vietnamese perceived the United States.
1,360 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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Because of the way the Americans fought this war, the Vietnamese had different perceptions or misperceptions of the United States. All of the assigned readings make this point valid. Many of the Vietnamese civilians saw the American soldiers as instruments for America?s leaders wanting their war machine to defeat the North Vietnamese, not to help Vietnam, but just to win. American leaders were making their decisions by listening to certain people ?who didn?t really know what they were dealing with.? This paper explains how the Americans misunderstood the Vietnamese and what went wrong when they tried to take over the fight between North and South Vietnam.
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"After reading the assigned books for this paper, I have come to the conclusion that the way the US fought this war was not very honorable. The American military leaders back in the United States did not know enough about what was really going on in Vietnam and as a direct result, they underestimated the power of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Regular Army. Herr makes this evident when he says ?there is a point of view that the United States got involved in the Vietnam War ... simply because we thought it would be easy.?1 "
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U.S. Cold War Foreign Policy Failures, 2002.
This paper discusses that the foreign policy failures of the U.S. in Cuba and Vietnam were the results of a foreign policy based on Cold War ideology.
2,040 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper explains that the American failures in Cuba and Vietnam in the 1960s were due in large part to the fear, arrogance and ignorance of Cold War containment policies that developed in the aftermath of World War II. The author believes that the problem was the assumption that all political and economic reform movements in Third World nations were not indigenous but were inspired instead by the evil Communist leaders of the Soviet Union. The author states that once this Cold War policy was in effect, no leader of the U.S. had the courage, wisdom or political independence to try to alter fully that policy.
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"Kennedy certainly entered office under the pall of the same Cold War ideology and its containment policy, as evidenced by his "missile gap" rhetoric, his increase of advisors in Vietnam, and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. It will never be known whether he would have averted a war in Vietnam, but his test-ban treaty with the Soviets, his denunciation of the CIA after the Bay of Pigs disaster, and his plan to withdraw some troops from Vietnam indicate at least a willingness to consider more flexibility in that policy."
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The U.S. at War, 2002.
A look at U.S. participation in different wars throughout history.
1,774 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper looks at how the United States is a country which has risen to become a ?superpower? country since its liberation from British rule during the early 19th century. It analyzes how America has developed from a newly-established nation to a political power in the world today through its various public information and policy campaigns during the wars it has participated in. It also discusses how its active participation in the Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War have helped determine America?s political stance and military capabilities, qualities that have made the nation one of the strongest and most stable forms of political and social system.
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"The Korean War was once of the conflicts that US participated in during its containment policy program or the Truman Doctrine in 1947, a few years after the WWII. The Truman Doctrine or Containment policy of the United States seeks to prevent the spread of Communism in the world, particularly in Southeast Asian nations, which are in danger of becoming influenced with Communist doctrines and beliefs. The Korean War stemmed from the separation of Korea as a nation during WWII. Because the North was allied to the Japanese and Russian forces during US?s containment policy, US sought South Korea?s help to combat the probable spread of Communism in the country. With the help of the United Nations, the US enforced anti-Communism in the Asian region, and participated in the violent attack against North Korean forces, resulting to further damage in the country and widening the gap between the North and South Korea."
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U.S. Failure In Vietnam, 1987.
Discusses roots of American involvement & causes of military & politcal disaster. Examines role of media, public opinion, anti-communist policy, leadership incompetence, deceit and ethnocentrism.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, $ 71.95
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"This paper will discuss why the United States failed in Vietnam. The roots of U.S. involvement in Vietnam will be briefly described, and an analysis of why U.S. policies failed in Vietnam will be presented.
There is one view that perhaps the media, with its vivid coverage of the atrocities, had a role in undermining U.S. foreign policy. When the Public Broadcasting System broadcast a 13-part documentary in 1985 that examined the role of the television media in covering the Vietnam War, there was a protest and the Accuracy in Media group tried to obtain airing of a documentary which re-butted the program. Accuracy in Media and such books as Tet: Turning Point in the Vietnam War by Don Oberdorfer, Big Story by Peter Braestrup, and Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: the Unmaking of a President by Herbert Schandler made an argument in disagreement."
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U.S. and the Vietnam War, 1990.
This paper examines the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War and argues that Cold War imperatives more than national security led to U.S. this involvement.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 8 sources, $ 87.95
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"This study will examine the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. The study will consider whether the national interest or Cold War imperatives primarily inspired American involvement in that war, and will argue that Cold War imperatives far more than any true national security interests were responsible for the involvement. The word "imperatives" should be first defined, however. An imperative implies that the United States had no choice but to engage in war in Vietnam, as if the Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union (with Communist China thrown in for good measure) required that the United States involve itself in Vietnam to guard against, for example, a collapse into the Communist camp of every nation in Southeast Asia.
In fact, the United States became involved in Vietnam ... "
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Anti-Vietnam War Movement in the U.S., 1990.
This paper discusses the anti Vietnam War movement: American involvement, Selective Service Act, conscientious objectors, media, college activity, 1968 Democratic National Convention, Kent State killings, Vietnam veterans and the role of Nixon.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 16 sources, $ 111.95
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"During most of America?s history war has been glorified. Whether for political or economic reasons, the government has presented the option of war as real and necessary for the survival of the union. However, the attitude of embracing war has not necessarily been the typical one. In each of America's conflicts, large segments of the population have been critical of the war effort, and even larger numbers have been apathetic.
After World War II and the Atomic Age, though, the attitude toward warfare changed. No longer was one government simply stating that it had the power or might to destroy another government. The stakes had jumped to even higher levels - mankind was now capable of destroying all of mankind.
Some scholars have commented that the voices of those who protested America?s involvement in war, ?sometimes muted but often ... "
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U.S. Foreign Policy During the Vietnam War, 2000.
A look at how pre-Vietnam War U.S .foreign policy had strong links to the foreign policy in the Vietnam War.
2,105 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 9 sources, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses American foreign policy before Vietnam and foreign policy in Vietnam, and shows how a number of the elements that led to these policies were present in governmental perspectives for decades.
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"Though the foreign policies decisions that were instrumental in the Vietnam War were different from the policies that supported other international actions during the 20th century, including World War II and the Korean War, a number of the elements that led to these policies were present in governmental perspectives for decades. One of the most significant influencing factors in the policy developments of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations was the perceived threat of communism and the necessity of action to prevent its spread. This factor had been present in the development of foreign policy since before the First World War, and led to the perception of the necessity of force to stomp out its proliferation."
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The Impact of the U.S.- Vietnamese War on North Korea, 2002.
An examination of the social, economic and cultural consequences of the Vietnamese war on North Korea.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses the impact of 11-year U.S.-Vietnamese War on North Vietnam?s economy, society and culture. In the postwar years, the pace of change in Vietnam is satisfactory but, unfortunately it is limited only to the realm of culture and social values while the economic sector is still desperately looking for a revival. The change on this front is expected soon with the softening of America? attitude towards its ex-enemy.
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"The 20th century was a period of great social and political upheaval for Vietnam. The US-Vietnam war that lasted eleven years changed the face of a country, which had already been injured by severe poverty and intense political instability. It is important to understand that the war did not only change things at home but also transformed the state of international relations. Vietnam suffered socially, economically and politically because of this war and even though it won in the end, the victory did not exactly made any difference as far as development was concerned. But even though the war had far reaching implications, it is quite interesting to know that Vietnamese do not give as much importance to this war as we do, here in the United States. This is because the two countries and their people do not share same views on the subject of Vietnam-America war. In other words, while we assign tremendous importance to this event, to Vietnamese the only reason it was significant was because America was involved. (Lamb, 2002)"
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Comparing the War in Iraq with the Vietnam War, 2006.
This study examines the similarities of United States policy in regards to the war in Iraq and the Vietnam war.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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In this article, the writer maintains that the war in Iraq and the Vietnam war hold very similar foreign policy agendas, which rely on falsified intelligence information to enact pre-emptive war. The writer explains that the lack of presidential action to halt the War in Iraq further reveals the growing problems of war powers that allow nations, such as the United States, to attack smaller countries without reliable proofs of a threat. Further the writer notes that both president Bush and President Johnson invoke similarities in how war is created and enacted through poor intelligence and aggressive policies toward lesser nations.
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"In many ways, the instigation of war through fabricated intelligence was seen in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which can also be seen in the false intelligence the United States used to launch a War in Iraq. In this manner, both of these wars offer examples of similar wars in that they were based on false intelligence and were preemptive in design. The historical background to the Vietnam conflict was brought on by the rise in anti-communist campaigns, such as those made by McCarthyism in the 50s."
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The Vietnam War and the Iraqi War, 2004.
This paper compares the similarities of the Vietnam War and the Iraqi War.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper discusses that the world of nations is becoming embittered because the United States demonstrated an unethical utilization of military and political power in the Vietnam War and the Iraqi War. The author believes that the War on Iraq, like the War in Vietnam, was a mere ploy of politicians attempting to prove their superiority. The paper relates that the Vietnam War was fought to free the Vietnamese from a dictator the U.S. previously supported and that the war on Iraq was fought, again, to free the Iraqis from a dictator the U.S. previously supported.
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"The Vietnam War was fought on the basis of freedom, democracy and the need to hinder the spread of the evil of Communism. The slogan of the times was that if the spread of communism was not stalled America would soon lose its freedom and democracy the world over would be wiped out. These words may seem dramatic to the rational mind but to really understand the mood of the time such words must be used. The government of the time played on the emotional fear of the people through propaganda to make them believe that unless they supported the Vietnam War they would be unpatriotic and cause the nation to lose its sovereignty. Though Vietnam was thousands of miles away the war soon reached the borders of the US for as the war began so did dissent."
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Vietnam War, 2002.
Discusses the involvement of the U.S. in the Vietnam War.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 14 sources, $ 79.95
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Discusses involvement of the U.S. Causes and consequences of the Vietnam War on American society. American policy dictated by Cold War considerations. Analyzes the divisive and corrosive effects on American society. Antiwar movement. Decreasing public support for the war. History of Indochina. Early U.S. invovement. Escalation of the war. Outcome.
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"VIETNAM WAR U.S. INVOLVEMENT CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
This research paper discusses and analyzes the reasons why the United States became involved in the Vietnam War and the consequences of that war on American society then and later.
From the late 1940s and until the fall of Saigon in 1975 American policy toward Vietnam was dictated by Cold War considerations --i.e. the imperative need as perceived by the American national security establishment to contain communist expansion in French Indochina, and, after 1954, to prevent a communist takeover in South Vietnam. The United States moved from indirect to direct involvement in combat operations in Vietnam in the mid-1960s because the administration of Lyndon Johnson concluded that the South Vietnamese Government was incapable of defending itself.
The Vietnam War had significantly debilitating, divisive and ..."
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Vietnam War and the World Wars, 2002.
A comparison of Vietnam and the World Wars.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the Vietnam War with both World War I and World War II. It will explain how these wars were similar in causes, reasons for participation, military tactics and propaganda and winners and losers.
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Nixon and the Vietnam War, 2007.
This paper evaluates the leadership of President Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War.
1,185 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper explains that President Richard Nixon's strategy for the Vietnam War was "peace with honor". The author relates that Nixon's 1969 policy of the "Vietnamization" of the war meant the handing over of the responsibility of fighting to the South Vietnamese in order to protect their own country. The paper points out that this "Vietnamization" policy was a success domestically in the U.S. but was certainly a failure for South Vietnam. The author concludes that, although Nixon's strategies were thoughtful and not without solid footing, the time was too late to mend things in Vietnam; however, he did manage to reduce greatly the number of American casualties and the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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"Nixon also attempted more diplomatic ways to achieve peace with honor. One was that of meeting with the Great Powers: China and the Soviet Union. In 1971, Nixon met with China's Mao and Russia's Brezhnev and held talks. Behind the facade of Nixon's diplomacy was the underbelly of attempting to disillusion the Vietnamese by meeting peacefully with their supporter nations. This policy was somewhat successful in that Vietnam questioned the true stance of their communist allies, but it ended up coming to no avail."
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