... ; they also threw hand grenades into houses and bunkers, destroyed livestock and crops, and committed other atrocities (Peers 173). By this time all of the Vietcong who were in the area were hiding out and watching as Charlie Company gunned down hundreds of innocent men, women and ... constituted what the army defined as a "grave breach" of the Geneva Convention. A "grave breach", is the shooting of unarmed civilians. By 9:00 A.M. all of Charlie Company was in My Lai and they were slaughtering everything in sight. Most Families were being shot inside their homes, or just outside their do...

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... a future in which more pleasant relations among the major powers "the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Western Europe, and Japan "would allow for ventures profitable to all. Through international cooperation these nations might reduce revenue-draining Defense expenditures and prevent the occurrence of costly Third World conflicts such as the Vietnam War ("Nixon-). Nixon tightly controlled his ... or the knowledge of the State Department. Nixon and Kissinger's obsession with secrecy would have disastrous consequences. Aside from a handful of NSC aides, Kissinger, the president, an...

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... Colonel Hackworth believed that the 4/39th could be the best if they were properly motivated, trained, cared for and led. He made a point of talking with all new replacements and getting to know the men who served under him. He would take routine walks around the FB to visit and asses the troops, feeling that ... was doing (p. 160). He put troops in the battle field in random order, ordering air strikes that fell right on top of his own men, all the while with Colonel Hackworth trying to get him to stop. The battle resulted with forty enemy dead and fifty American soldiers were wounded o...

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... of John Kennedy "Kennedy's foreign policy was based on two major premises. The first was a belief in "monolithic communism- "the idea that all communist movements were orchestrated from Moscow."" The second was the Domino Theory "that should a single strategic country go communist, surrounding countries were sure ... in response to Kennedy's eagerness to pull out of Vietnam. This plan was to pull out every single troop in Vietnam immediately and bring all the equipment home. In 1967 Roger Hilsman, the Director of State Department Intelligence, said that Kennedy intended to pullout from ...

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• Grade Level: High School