... and head into Cambodia, or turn left, below the DMZ (demilitarized zone). If they went to Cambodia the would then travel south more and end up no more than fifteen miles away from the capitol of the 6 South which was Saigon. In many confrontations the Viet Cong would destroy small villages and booby trap areas where civilians still lived. The North ... on the leaders of small villages, medical personnel, social workers, school teachers and others who improved the lives of others."(10) There was no way to tell the Viet Cong apart from the civilians because they dressed the same and would...

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... was pledged to the Federal-Aid Act in coming years. The Interstate Highways would eventually be made up of more than 33,900 miles plus an additional 5,000 miles of support city routes for a total of over 38,900 miles. Eisenhower wanted to develop the interstates because he knew that Hitler used the Audubons System in Germany to quickly move the Nazi troops ... ...

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... US entered this war. First American military aid arrived on South Vietnam soil in 1955, just on the rising wake of cold war. Just two years before that several thousands miles from Vietnam, on Korean peninsula bloody Korean War ended with July 27, 1953 cease fire agreement between communist North Korea backed by China and US along with UN. Communist expansion ... University, April 7, 1965) Society felt it needed, and supported in to about 1968, when number of casualties increase and many people asked why America need to fight this war thousand miles from home. There are several good poi...

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... lines, 8 S-Bahn and 4 underground lines, 3 autobahns and several rivers and lakes. When the wall was finished the first time around, it was made up of seven and a half miles of concrete slabs, 86 miles of barbed wire and covered with 116 watch towers. Altogether, the wall was replaced four times. The second wall was built in June 1962 to prevent people from ... concrete blocks were crushed and used to make roads or sold. Today, the wall is barley visible, although it has been marked out in downtown Berlin over a distance of 12 miles with a red line or a double row of cobblestones. ...

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... of border skirmishes, any one of which places us on the brink of nuclear war. For example, India is building a wide variety of new missiles with a range of 90 miles to 1,300 miles. (2) And Iraq refuses to let United Nations teams in to inspect its nuclear weapons stores. (1) In addition, the many of the countries in the former Soviet Union have set ... ...

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... came into nearer view.The destruction of the russian missile bases by an air attack was found out as too risky so the preferred alternative to build up an 800 miles big quarantine zone was taken. 22.10. JFK put an ultimate to the SU in front of the world public to take away their nuclear missiles from Cuba, if not ... marines. 23.10. The soviet prime minister sent a letter to JFK in which he told his readiness for peace - for this Kennedy reduced the quarantine zone from 800 to 500 miles. 24.10. By the US radar again merchant fleets with course to Cuba were discovered. 25.10. The EX - C...

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... Airplane began to have a profound impact on American music. Airplane, for example, first appeared nationally, and caught the wave of activism and "free- love during the summer of 1967. Their lyrics of the hit song "Somebody to Love- reflect this attitude: When the truth is found to be lies You know the joy within you dies Don't you want somebody to ... ...

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... still had control over it. Great Britain had done the same thing to America back before the American Revolution. England was trying to control its colony which was three thousand miles away and yet still allowing them to have self rule. This control idea was almost blatantly stated by the Supreme Court during the Downes v. Bidwell case. The Court said, "We ... paper with words and signatures on it. America would still be controlling more land. Also, Alfred T. Mahan said that "no foreign state should henceforth acquire a coaling position within three thousand miles of San Francisco" in h...

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... all rail, water, and highways from going to western Germany. 2,000 East German plants were entirely or partly dismantled and sent to Russia. 1,600 miles of railway line were completely torn out and an additional 7,300 miles of parallel tracks were ripped up. The western powers fed and supplied the 2 million persons in their sectors of Berlin solely by plane during this ... ...

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... . The first disagreement came over the battle at Inchon. MacArthur, a brilliant commander with an enormous ego and a supreme sense of self-confidence, demanded permission for an amphibious operation twenty-five miles west of Seoul, at Inchon. The Joint Chiefs of Staff had been opposed to the amphibious operation, warning MacArthur that Inchon had some of the highest tides in the world ... claimed that he was too busy with the war to come back to the states. Truman took him at his word and flew the lengthy roundtrip distance of 14,404 miles to meet with MacArthur. The meeting went well an...

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... are various degrees of similarity between them, what does differentiate them from each other are their languages and histories, traditions and cultures, but "most important, religion" (Huntington, 1993). Apart from the demise of the political ideologies described earlier, Huntington gives six specific reasons for civilizational identity. First, the fundamental and basic levels of identity and differentiation noted above. Second ... he announced war against the US lead coalition as a war of Islam against the West, because Iraq under his rule was one of the most westernized of all Arab na...

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... this new and for a while unprosperous nation left a thorn in England's side. This led to England's support on two occasions", attempts to break apart the newly formed nation. There are two instances that occur almost 50 years apart that demonstrate this clearly. Well after the establishment of the United States a feeling of disgust towards this rebellious daughter nation still held true after ... ...

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... 's technologies and, it was enough to scare the NATO nations. Furthermore, in October 1957, the Soviet Union invented "Sputnik", a satellite that travels around the earth at 18,000 miles per hour, circling the globe every 96 minutes (Doc F). This satellite was nothing; it was just a round shape of metal which beeped and traveled around the Earth. However, it was ... ...

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... United States is being held in temporary storage facilities located in one hundred thirty-one sites in thirty-nine states. One hundred sixty-one-million Americans live within seventy-five miles of one of these sites. (Cook, 2002) After twenty years and four million dollars the congress approved Yucca Mountain's long term geologic repositories for spent nuclear fuel. (OCRWM, 2002) Then ... ...

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... the Soviet arsenals. The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The Soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba; just 90 miles off the coast of the United States and U.S. armed forces were at their highest state of readiness. Soviet field commanders in Cuba were authorized to use tactical nuclear weapons if ... ...

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... PT ship, two were killed and 3 were injured. The rest of the crew members hung on to the hull of the wrecked boat until morning. They swam three and a half miles to the nearest island. John swam with an injured man on his back the whole way. When they got to the island they met two islanders with a canoe. John gave ... ...

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... superheated air and winds fan the fires started by the thermal pulse leaving a wide area of destruction. The atomic bomb over Nagasaki caused earth-leveling devastation to approximately 42.9 square miles. (5) Initially, radiation was less of a concern for affecting the number of casualties from a nuclear explosion, but soon Japan felt the lethal after effects of the atomic bomb's radioactive fallout. It ... ...

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... the nation was given on August 6th, sixteen hours later, when an American plane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. The bomb destroyed over four square miles of the city, killing or injuring more than 135,000 people. (Goodman, Philip). In the early 1940s, Japan had expansionist aims in Eastern Asia, Indo China and the Western Pacific ... ...

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... be treated as mere shelters but used a new strategy. The tunnel system provided a fresh and continuous supply of troops. The main network system base was at Cu Chi , nearly 200 miles of tunnels used by guerillas(Tregaski 67). Many parts of the tunnels had more than one depths or levels. There were chambers carved out for arms factories and well for ... ...

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... remain. President John F. Kennedy is the current president. Cuba, newly liberated by Fidel Castro, has began to ally with the Soviet Union spawning the threat of Communist counterparts just 90 miles away from US southwest shores. Beginning in 1960, and continuing till 1961, US intelligence was compiling information that Soviet ships carrying unidentified contents were traveling between Cuba and the Soviet ... ...

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... his very best to make sure nothing happened to this great country. The Cold War really got going this term with Russia supplying Cuba with a barrage of nuclear arms. Only miles outside of Florida, nearly every city on the Eastern seaboard was at risk. Unfortunately, during a trip to Dallas, this nice man was shot and killed in his automobile. America fell ... ...

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... spread throughout the Eighth Army and its soldiers fought back with a new ferocity. On September 15 General Macarthur landed thousands of soldiers at the Port of Inchon that was 30 miles from Seoul. The NKPA was caught totally by surprise and Seoul was taken the next day. Bitter street fighting took place and instead of bypassing Seoul to cutoff the rest ... ...

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... War: The Most Argued War The Vietnam War is one the most unique wars that the United States has ever fought in. The war fought was more than 10,000 miles away and never had a true beginning or end. It was very different than America's past wars. Guerilla warfare, mass civilian casualties, and fierce jungle combat were all found in this ... ...

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... the United States was not going in the right direction after the Bay of Pigs incident. The United States was now in a serious situation with an island less than a hundred miles of the coast of Florida with a communist dictator who didn't like the us. The United States had even more reason for concern when later that summer there was rumor that ... ...

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... be treated as mere shelters but used a new strategy. The tunnel system provided a fresh and continuous supply of troops. The main network system base was at Cu Chi , nearly 200 miles of tunnels used by guerillas(Tregaski 67). Many parts of the tunnels had more than one depths or levels. There were chambers carved out for arms factories and well for ... ...

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