... envisioned. The tension created through shelling the islands would consolidate Mao's power and support basis. Mao placed military commanders in the communes to supervise the militarization and mobilization of each commune. The communes (Mao hoped, though this never really materialized) would produce light weapons (rifles, machine guns, mortars) and to form militias out of every able bodied person. Mao would then have ... that the British would not be scared," Mao did not want an international conflict broiling out of this shelling, he only wanted to create tension. When the American's r...

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... South Vietnamese joined together against Ngo Dinh Diem. "Diem labored under certain disadvantages: he had left Vietnam in August 1950 and had thus played no part in the glorious struggle against the French, living in America for most of that period; he had few political allies and was hesitant to trust anyone except ... and President Johnson wanted justice and because of this we attacked North Vietnam. "According to the government, on August 1 and 4 North Vietnamese patrol boats launched two unprovoked attacks on American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. "Within hours of the second (dis...

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... darting the Watergate investigation. Soon after the Watergate scandal came to light, investigators discovered many further revelations that caused Nixon's support and popularity to diminish a great deal. President Nixon faced almost certain impeachment for his illegal acts against the Democratic Party. After these events took place Nixon's popularity steadily eroded away. In August of 1974, three tapes disclosed that Nixon had ordered the ... FBI to stop investigating the Watergate break-in. The tapes also revealed that Nixon had aided in the directing of the cover up. Nixon resigned fr...

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... advantage, and financial dependence on Europe as a whole, American politicians believed that the last word in the postwar world would be behind them. The confidence of the United States in its absolute superiority in the postwar world has become stronger after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The bombing of these cities was dedicated to the meeting of Heads of State ... to the solution of the issue, often without any argument. For example, many still with a light hand of some Soviet politicians did, in our opinion hasty statements, consider that the USSR has...

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