... another nationalist organization, the Freedom Bloc and became its general secretary. He was also a founder member and the first secretary-general of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) in August 1939. After a brief period, he co-founded the People's Revolutionary Party. After the Second World War, this party was named as the Socialist Party. When the British government issued a warrant ... and implicated that U Saw was behind the organized hit and was found guilty and executed. On January 4th, 1948, Britain finally gave Burma their independence. In light of their newly found independenc...

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... the islands and "stimulate and measure" North Vietnamese and Chinese radar. On August 2, the Maddox reported picking up radio transmissions indicating a possible attack on the ship. The Maddox radioed to the naval headquarters in Hawaii saying that to continue patrolling close to shore posed "an unacceptable risk." ... Maddox. The administration also sent a note to the North Vietnamese warning that another attack on U.S. ships would have "grave consequences." On August 3rd the South Vietnamese shelled northern military facilities from the Gulf of Tonkin. At the time though, the two battl...

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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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... intentions of ensuring democracy throughout the world had not changed, however the US did not support the right of self-determination in Vietnam in scheduled elections in 1956. Rather an incorrect analysis of the Vietnam situation: inaccurately identifying it with the previous Korean quagmire and the overall ... civil war. The brief excerpts from The Arrogance of Power address these sentiments. J. William Fulbright discusses the reasons for American involvement in Vietnam as stemming significantly from previous American experiences, namely Korea and McCarthyism. Both factors created an e...

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... leaders with the possibility of full-scale U.S. military intervention. In January 1964 he approved covert attacks against North Vietnamese territory, including commando raids against bridges, railways, and coastal installations. Johnson also ordered the U.S. Navy to conduct surveillance missions along the North Vietnamese coast. These actions led to an incident on August 2, 1964, when North Vietnamese coastal gunboats fired on the ... destroyer USS Maddox, which had penetrated North Vietnam territorial boundaries in the Gulf of Tonkin. Johnson ordered more ships to the area, and on Augu...

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