... popular music as we know it? Below are presented several different scenarios as to what could possibly happen should a MAJOR (not a quickie like the Gulf War) hypothetical armed conflict rage once again. 1) Corporations start pumping out more and more pre-fabricated pop acts. Music geared towards a pre-teen market - you ... New Kids on the Block out of retirement. But I doubt it. 2) Pre-fabricated pop acts discover the creative process. When the Vietnam war hit, a lot of barely politically aware musicians suddenly had their eyes opened. Look at the drastic aesthetic change in the music o...

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... the essay where I use personal pronouns freely. Beginning, I was raised a non-questioning Christian who's ideas were suppressed by the ugliness of "patriotism". I supported war in every form because the United States knew what it was doing. Starting to question my beliefs, I quickly made my way from being a mere agnostic to ... entry. Empty promises were made by all involved countries and no enforcement was set to keep them. The world looked good up until the Great Depression. Germany owed a lot of money to Britain and France who in turn owed a lot of money to the United States. Citizens...

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... Vietnamese schools, orphanages which were under organizations like the Peace Corps and USAID (Marshall 4). In 1984, studies showed up to 20% of women who were in the Vietnam War suffered problems: paralyzing flashbacks, depression, alcoholism, serious marital, emotional and professional difficulties. This was all because they were exposed to death on a regular basis. Dr. John M. Boyle of Louis Harris ... disorder than males" (Coppola 35). Women had marital, career, alcoholic and stress-related physiological problems such as ulcers and hypertension. These resulted from the guilt, helpless...

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... justice of Vietnamese people made the Americans more skeptical about the real purpose of this war. And then along with depression, fatigues of soldiers in the battles were anti-war movements rising in America. The war was not only limited in Vietnam, but it also took place in America, on ... science and technology, the modern media such as televisions had broadcast news, images to every American family. The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every ni...

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... awareness these guerrillas were a deadly, persistent enemy who were willing to sustain continual casualties, while the U.S. government became just as responsible for inflicting tremendous casualties physically and morally during the war. Young American men went to Vietnam to experience the challenge of danger and the chance to come home heroes. These men had known nothing but security, comfort, peace, and enlisting ... destroy missions, they found photographs and letters that humanized the enemy and the marines wanted to deny the enemy of human qualities (124). The Vietnamese endured th...

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... in the past, to question and publicly protest decisions made by the government and elected officials. Congress and the public challenged the president on U.S. military and foreign policy issues. The war became a standard for comparison in future situations that might involve U.S. troops abroad. The American culture and tradition for unquestioning support of the government ended and the perception of what constituted ... U.S. entered a period of isolationism. Affairs in Europe remained unsettled. The lack of involvement by the United States in the settlement of the postwar issues contribut...

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... his campaign Johnson promised American voters "that American boys would not fight Asian boys in Vietnam." (Hargrove 116) However, once elected Johnson escalated the war with Vietnam even though public sentiment was against such action (Hargrove 123). The second example of unfulfilled campaign promises occurred in a more recent presidential ... aid Britain in its fight against Germany in the early 1940's. The general public had made it clear that after the heavy loses of World War I, they wished to remain isolated from European affairs. Roosevelt believed however that it was in the countr...

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... Minh established a military group in 1945, called the Vietminh, that would serve as the military fight against the French in the war named the First Indochina War. The war lasted 9 years and many Vietnamese lives were lost,(8,000 dead), but their determination for independence was not to be denied. With ... (Duiker 55). At the time, the United States was in the midst of its own conflict with Russia, which was called the Cold War. After World War II and The Korean Conflict, the last thing U.S. citizens wanted was for the government to send troops into Vietnam. In 1961, Russia ... country w...

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... CIA wars, actually helped the Communist forces in those countries to win support. By 1975 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia had Communist governments (Westdad, Cuban and Vietnamese Challenges). The war sparked a series of social movements and criticism of Johnson's involvement in Vietnam. University-wide administration imposed numerous rules designed to keep politics off of all the University campuses.  In ... united as one, a single working class. The Afghan leader Dau'd Tarraki was assassinated by Soviet invaders in late 1979 (Westdad, Islamist defiance: Iran and Afghanistan). The Soviet-Afg...

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... drafted while the rich had the luxury of being able to draft-dodge by simply attending school. Another reason on why I believe the Vietnam war and the policies that followed were not justified up to its completion in addition to the fact it was based on lies is that there ... against international law such as the Geneva contract. But before I continue with this point I must say that I understand that our soldiers were fighting a war, which can be gruesome and sometimes they would have to do unthinkable things to survive. But that alone does not justify why over 500,000 Vietnamese civilia...

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... quote from the commonwealth parliamentary debates on the 21st of April 1965, Menzies states "I subscribe to the Domino theorybecause I believe it obviousthat if war ends with some compromise that denies South Vietnam a real and well protected independence, Laos and Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia will be vulnerablehas ... 1965, it was made up of middle class woman that were aware politically aware or concerned about their sons and relatives fighting in the war and overseas conscription. Conscription was reintroduced in 1964, it was made a law that every male aged 20 ...

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... a big civilian cost, roughly 6 Vietnamese citizens were killed for every VC member. It wasn't just American weaknesses that led to them losing the war, the Viet Cong had tremendous strengths in the tactics they employed. The VC were massively more determined than the Americans, they were fighting for nationalism, ... throughout the country. The Ho Chi Minh was vitally important to them, the ability to get huge amounts of supplies into the South sustained their war effort. They mainly used guerrilla warfare tactics. The VC were men and women who weren't in uniform, they mixed with the civ...

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... over government issues. They had just become independent, and Northern Vietnam wanted to be a communist state. Southern Vietnam didn't really like that, thus a civil war started. Because the United States was and still is an anti-communist country, we decided that we should help the Southern Vietnam. In the beginning, the U.S ... Southern Vietnam surrendered and Vietnam reunited. In the end, there were 60,000 American death's and around 2 million Vietnamese deaths. One poet from the Vietnam War was Bruce Weigl. Bruce Weigl was born in 1949 and was a poet, Bruce was an English professor b...

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... and destruction left in the wake of our actions in Vietnam. The unnecessary and extremely controversial involvement of the United States in Vietnam's civil war, was an occurrence that was overall a large mistake on the part of the U.S. This is shown by: the injustice and unpopularity of ... was born to describe the circumstances under which they occurred. As news of the tragedies occurring in Vietnam spread, American public opinion of the war was rapidly declining, and internationally, America's reputation was also quickly falling. Try as it might, the American government could not hide...

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... , destroying twenty-five patrol boats and some oil storage facilities. " (Hopkins, pg. 43) With this decision alone, President Johnson escalated the war. Soon after President Johnson order the bombing of two North Vietnamese targets, Congress authorized the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. This gave the president authority ... all American troops from Vietnam, in May 1975, South Vietnam surrendered. Vietnam was reunified under a communist Vietnam regime. By the end of the war, the United States suffered a total of 57,000 causalities and 153,303 soldiers were wounded. There is a multitude of th...

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... the result of misinformation and skewed results of battles and strategies perpetrated by the administration and the military leaders. Consequently, the amount of US service members killed in the war reached 58,220. A major motivation for US Presidents during the Viet Nam intervention was to stop the spread of communism, also called the containment strategy. President Kennedy said in his ... 1961; " pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty ". Kennedy inherited the Cold War policy from Pr...

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... the advance. This action has positively and negatively affected both the United States and Korea. Deciding to aid South Korea in the Korean War has drastically changed the lives of many people.   In 1949, China fell into Mao Zedong's communist forces. More than 500 million Chinese ... lack of resources. Even today, the limited natural resources and small population have deprived them of being a more powerful nation. China entered the war on October 19th, 1950.   General MacArthur sent American troops deep into the South. United State Senators went on television and radio and demanded ....

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... U.S. Marine Corps, Lieutenant Philip Caputo was a part of the ninth Expeditionary Brigade, which was the first group of troops sent into the Vietnam War. His brigade was deployed to Da Nang and they were supposed to set the perimeter for an airstrip that would ensure the arrival and departure of ... a rifle and did not want to be cooped up inside. However, his time away from the battlefields gave Caputo a different outlook on the war. He started to notice that the officers were more concerned over trivial matters rather than strategies. Caputo also describes soldiers showing off the d...

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... and northern was communist. In 1956 an election was going to be used to decide the leader for the whole country but this never happened and the country was split. War began out between the North and the South with communist countries supporting North Vietnam and democratic countries supporting South Vietnam. Communism is a political system which promotes property and resources ... promote the fairest society for everyone as a community. While democracy is used in Australia and means the population is used to elect a government and representatives. Communist forces in The Vietnam War wer...

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... the south with a series of surprise attacks in what's known as the Tet Offensive. "It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1862.html). In reaction to this Nixon authorized "vietnamization, which was a plan to help build up the South Vietnamese ... gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops " (http://www.history.com/topics/vietnamization). And finally, during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, the U.S. began to fight in the war because it was believed that the Vietnamese attacked one of our ships while we were patrolling the Tonkin Gulf. This set ...

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... on the battlefield, it had to be a long, devastating four years in office for each president. Harry S. Truman was one of the first presidents to assist in the war ("Vietnam War-). The Truman administration believed that the United States and its allies must meet any sign of communist aggression quickly and forcefully. Any communist anywhere, at home, or abroad, was ... years later he was paroled (75). Other things in Vietnam also sparked American terrorism. The Tet Offensive launched in January 1968 quickly struck throughout South Vietnam including the U.S. embassy ("Vietnam War-). Foll...

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... Not only were American troops dying by the hundreds but they were also televising all the killing that was going on. The Vietnam War was the first war that Americans were actually able to watch on their home television. The Vietnamese tactic of fighting was very brutal they stopped at no ... be used to help fund American programs. In the election of 1968 Richard Nixon was elected and promised to get out country out of the war. He started the Vietnamization which when we sent our troops to equip and train the South Vietnamese to take over fighting so U.S. troops could ... 955 flight ho...

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... he was also a very talented writer. This book was the first book that dealt with Vietnam reasonably and it gave people a sense of what the war was like. Philip Caputo, born in Chicago in 1941, went into the Marine Corps straight out of high school. He learned everything he needed to ... other magazines. He currently lives in Connecticut with his wife, Leslie Blanchard Ware. In my perspective the major theme of this book was the effect of war upon man. Their morals were changing every day along with their lives. Some went from being with their wives or girlfriends to "whoring" at the ... ...

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... side maneuvered around them differed, and their costs may very well have been absolute victory, or certain defeat. From the start of the war, the Vietminh had several major problems staring them in the face. One was the rampant disease that plagued many of their guerrilla cells. ... problem the Vietminh faced was the lack of weapons and equipment that they needed to fight off the French at the outset of the war. Help arrived from China, as Chinese communists supplied the Vietminh with more modern weapons, as well as advisors. The Chinese communists also ... element crucial to victory ...

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... in Vietnam, the importance is not seen until all is done. I find it good to acknowledge the event that took place during the Vietnam War. Although many say it was a war everyone lost, it is still a significant event in American history. America since its first years of independence, has never been one to be ... army of conquered soldiers, and all no longer having say in their lives. So preventing future numbers of enormous casualties seems to be a just cause for war. The people of the sixties and seventies didn't feel this way. At least most of them did not, and decide to voice their opi...

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