... Laos and Cambodia as well as the Vietnam." French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954 after Vietnam army defeated them; French were compelled to accede to the creation of a communist north and left a non-communist entity South of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangements. The administrations of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, instead of building a nation from Political entity that ... another obstacle, when secretly he sent about 400 special operations forces trained (Green Beret) Soldiers to teach the South Vietnamese w to defend themselves called the "Counterinsurgency"...

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... his first words on the Vietnam War were "I am not going to lose Vietnam. I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia become communist."" The U.S. was now fighting to keep communism out of Southeast Asia. One problem with Johnson's approach was instead of sending ships and Gatling guns, he ... into South Vietnam.In February 1965 the U.S launched operation Rolling Thunder, which was the massive bombing of North Vietnam but had little affect on the communist nation. From 1963 to 1966 the number of us troops in Vietnam went from 14 000 to 267,000 and the Regular Vietcong army g...

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... of civilians lost their jobs. The Hollywood Ten for example, famous actresses, actors and directors who were accused of being involved with the Communist Party and their lives were forever ruined. The Rosenberg's received the death penalty because of the accusation of being spies for Russia. The ... fear and paranoia of Communism did not destruct after the Cold War. The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. Although President Lyndon Johnson feared Communism, his decision was incorrect to escalate troops in Vietnam ... because they wa...

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... , as defined to me in the New Standard Encyclopedia, was " an undeclared war for the control of South Vietnam, starting in 1957 and ending in 1975." The war began as a Communist guerrilla campaign supported by North Vietnam, who sought control of South Vietnam. The United States feared that Communism would spread, and President Eisenhower's Domino Theory was born. By 1965 the ... . Although there was a lull in the intensity of the fighting, it did continue all throughout the spring of 1968, and into 1969, when another Tet Offensive was launched by the Communist regime. By July of 1969, Pr...

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... us from anything. Even though the fear of communism and foreign sabotage was immense, we showed very little panic. We as people were told that if Russia or any other communist state had the courage and/or ability to attack us with bombs, that we could just hide under desks or be safe in an under ground shelter. Only few did ... , the president set up a new anti-radical division in the Justice Department, later known as the FBI, headed by J. Edgar Hoover. The president sent Federal agents to arrest and deport communist, socialists, and anarchists. This was the initiation of questioning ou...

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... . Vietnam has a beautiful landscape. It has soaring mountains. It has forest that include exotic plants, and amazing rivers, waterfalls, and beaches. Vietnam was divided into two parts, North Vietnam, the communist, and South Vietnam. The two halves of the country were divided by the 17th parallel. The North was known as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under the leadership of Lao ... countries. The war lasted from 1954 until April 30, 1975. Since the United States" policy was one of containment we took it upon ourselves to defend South Vietnam agianst the Communist North Vietnam. In t...

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... summer of 1987. Mikhail Gorbachev- In 1970 he was elected to the USSR Supreme Soviet; from 1971 till 1991 Gorbachev was a member of the Communist Party Central Committee. He is significant, because he was the last leader in communist party, he symbolizes the end of the communism. Persian Gulf War- a war in which Iran and Iraq had battered each other in a debilitating ... ...

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... Chi minh one of the most well known Vietnamese because of his leading role in the war between North and South Vietnam known as Vietnam war. Founder of the Indochina communist party in 1930 and president from 1945 -69 of the democratic republic of Vietnam. Gulf of Tonkin incident- is the body of water that lies on the east coast of ... was formed in 1960 to effect the overthrow of south Vietnamese government and the reunification of north and south Vietnam. It was represented by its own diplomatic staffs in all communist countries and in several neutral countries. Nixon doctrine- Set in ...

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... Office of Price Administration before enlisting in the U.S. Navy during World War II. In 1947, Nixon won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in a campaign noted for his accusation that Communist supported his Democratic opponent. As a member of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, he gained fame for his part in the Alger Hiss spy case. He went on to ... the U.S. Senate in 1951, again after suggesting those Communist associations tainted his Democratic opponent. Nixon became Eisenhower's vice-president in 1952 and was unusually visible and active in that role. In 1958, ...

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... genera; election of 1946. In that year Republicans gained control of Congress for the first time since 1930. During Nixon's campaign against Vorhees, he accused Vorhees of accepting money from a communist-dominated political action committee. This tactic, known as "red Baiting", was effective in the late 1940s and early 1950s because the American public had become frightened of the ... communist menace. In 1950 Nixon utilized similar tactics in running for the U.S Senate against Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. He won easily. Two years later, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, age 3...

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... People's Republic of China and its 750 million people. People across the United States were shocked, until then the United States had no diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties to the communist nation. "It was brilliant, daring, and diplomatic stroke, perhaps the boldest of the twentieth century and undoubtedly would have been the defining acts of his presidency were it not ... ...

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... result: 5 million soldiers and civilians lost their lives during the war. Still today, the Korean Peninsula is divided. Cuba and Fidel Castro The Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro established the first communist nation in the Western Hemisphere in 1959. Since Cuba was aided by the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro, during his ruling of almost fifty years, formed a quite quarrelsome relationship against United ... ...

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... American lives with South Vietnamese. The Nixon administration was looking for "peace with honor." They were looking for a way out of the war without defaulting the entire nation to the communist North. For Nixon, "The important thing was not to talk about peace, but to get peace and to get the right kind of peace."(3) The Vietnamization policy seemed effective enough ... ...

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... job of promoting and securing US vital interests according to the traditionalist theory is by starting the process of recognizing the People's Republic of China. Nixon was a very strong anti-communist, but he realized that it was in the best interests of the US to have stable relations with China. Nixon's administration also called for the shift from an era of ... ...

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... hardships and challenges. One dealing with the threat of communism, second restoring the American economy to a strong footing after the war's end, and third firing General MacArthur. A well known anti-communist activist was Senator Joseph McCarthy, who accused people of disloyalty without providing evidence. At first McCarthy got much support from the people but when he accused the U.S. Army people began ... ...

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... the passage of so-called "right to work" legislation. • The tying of labor unions with the much maligned socialists movement (An invalidated clause forcing union leaders to sign anti-communist affidavits.) Right to work laws demand a special amount of attention. The most insidious of anti-labor tools, these laws weaken Organized Labor under the guise of protecting the rights of ... ...

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... republicans. This is most certainly seen when Kennedy joins the republicans in criticizing Harry Truman for his handling of China. In China, Chiang Kai-shed was unable to withstand the communist forces of Mao Zedong. Kennedy's criticism towards Truman was on account of the lack of support given to Chiang Kai-shek against the communists. Despite Kennedy's alternate voting tactics within ... ...

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... did not involve as many sensational events as the liberal movements, but there was quite a bit of activism on the conservative side. The Young Americans for Freedom were strongly anti-communist, as were most Americans at the time. However, this organization felt that it was not enough to simply contain the spread of communism, but rather that the United States should ... ...

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... had to interfere. At the conference in Geneva, following this brief war Vietnam, was split along the 17th parallel, just as Korea was split along the 38th. To restrict further Communist successes, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles proposed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was formed in 1954. A part of its charter stated that the ... ...

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... US soldiers, the northern Vietnamese ignored the cease-fire plan, and stormed into South Vietnam. By the following year, the whole of Vietnam had become one country, and under the communist rule. Out of the 2.8 million American troops, 58,000 lives were taken, and around 2 million Vietnamese were killed and far more disabled and badly wounded. ...

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... for an expansion of the war and destroyed any credibility of the US army in claiming success and superiority in the south. General William Westmoreland claimed " The press turned a decisive communist defeat into a psychological victory for the North Vietnamese." The American public now despised the war more than ever and put pressure on President Johnson to evacuate the troops in Vietnam ... ...

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