... and Nagasaki was the beginning of a new arsenal that would lead to the development of nuclear weapons. After Japan and Germany were defeated in World War II, a solutions to prevent the future event of a third world war were taken by the establishment of the United Nations to outlaw all private wars. Another right of the United Nations was to punish those villains that ... that get to decide who is on the wrong side of the law and who is not. The atom bomb, which was mentioned earlier as the "problem solver" of World War II, would prove to lead to a larger dilemma. Prior to the atomic bo...

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... and as Bao Dai's Minister for the Interior in the 1930's but quitted the colonial regime and went into voluntary exile before World War II. Fiercely independent, and both anti-colonial and anticommunist, he spurned offers for high administerial posts by both Ho Chi Minh and the French ... Minister R G Menzies followed a generally coherent and consistent foreign policy during its 23 years tenure of office. Two lessons of the Second World War had made a profound impression on their policy-making decisions. One was that the geopolitics of Asia, particularly South-East Asia, was of more ... ...

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... and as Bao Dai's Minister for the Interior in the 1930's but quitted the colonial regime and went into voluntary exile before World War II. Fiercely independent, and both anti-colonial and anticommunist, he spurned offers for high administerial posts by both Ho Chi Minh and the French ... Minister R G Menzies followed a generally coherent and consistent foreign policy during its 23 years tenure of office. Two lessons of the Second World War had made a profound impression on their policy-making decisions. One was that the geopolitics of Asia, particularly South-East Asia, was of more ... ...

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... the accuracy of setting, dialogue, or action, audiences gave the film makers freedom to use their imagination. However, the Vietnam War failed to provide the same stories of struggle and bravery that made films about World War I and World War II successful because the conflict lacked clear objectives and easily identified enemies. Therefore, Hollywood directors used myths to create dramatic constructions of ... the realities of the Vietnam War that moved audiences" emotions. These myths reflect the demands of drama as opposed to the requirement ... into the origins of human nature." By ...

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... allude to Oliver Stone's Platoon, and the often overlooked Hamburger Hill. For me these films represent a justifiable range of different approaches to the war to explain their inclusion, and will be looked at as representations of Vietnam, and judged accordingly. It is important I stress that I am ... only as vile, depraved and sadistic, like the Japanese of Hollywood World War II films. The Deer Hunter's most renowned sequence, the infamous game of Russian Roulette (which was principally used as a metaphor for war: an atrocious game of chance) was entirely fictitious, there is no repor...

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... have to put our trust in "great and powerful friends" Vietnam had been a French colony since 1858, but when they were driven out during World War II, Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh, a nationalist group with communist ideals formed a government in Hanoi, situated in the northern region of Vietnam. The French ... were unwilling to relinquish their colony, and so they went to war with the Vietminh forces that were supported by communist China. When the French were crushed at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, they were forced ... presented the communists in the north with an ideal opportunity to seize co...

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... by sending 30 military advisers to Vietnam, their arrival in South Vietnam between July and August 1962 was the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. The main reason for Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War was to bring to an end to communism. Communism, also known as the Red Menace is a political and economic theory in which a country's wealth and ... resources are owned by everyone. Australia and other Western countries feared communism as communists often gained power by force. After World War II most of Eastern Europe was communist and China was also communi...

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... made a national address in which he stated "The war which we are forced to wage is a just war for the unification and independence of the motherland and for freedom and democracy." The Americans took this act as a sign that Kim II Sung was utilising a communist take-over, thus in October ... of the same year America, with UN sanction, invaded North Korea. The Korean War became the first American war ... ever waged solely as an ideological war. "For the first time in the nations ... world opinion" America too keeps a watchful eye on North Korea, knowing that this communist country has ...

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... result was approximately 3,000 pages of narrative and more than 4,000 pages of appended documents--about 2.5 million words. Forty-seven volumes cover U.S. involvement in Indochina from World War II through May 1968, the month the peace talks began in Paris. Among other things, the Pentagon Papers document the activities of sabotage and terror warfare against North Vietnam beginning ... clandestine operations through a section of the Joint Chiefs organization called the Office of Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities. A second major segment of the Johnson admini...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate