... , non-violent. The objectives specified in the Declaration were non-violent as well. The Declaration urged men to disobey the draft in order to force an end to the war. Since non-violence is a defining quality of civil disobedience, those who signed the Declaration of Conscience did not believe that they were merely lawbreakers. Through peaceful action against the ... war, the signers of the Declaration of Conscience demonstrated civil disobedience. An act of civil disobedience must also be motivated by morality. Those who actively opposed the Vietnam War did so because they believed the...

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... two finalists in the competition are from bracket II, the "Civil War", and from bracket III, "World War I". Despite the significant implications of World War I and the fact that the Civil War occurred over one hundred years ago, the Civil War remains as the most important event in American history. Unlike the Civil War, World War I was not fought on U.S. soil, the fate of the Union was not in ... speculation was rampant. The cumulative effect of these conditions would lead to an unequal distribution of wealth and set the stage for the Great Depression. The economic implications of the C...

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... , and that slavery was just the match that set the Civil War off. "Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Almost as many as the combined dead of all other wars from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War (Boritt 634)". The Civil War destroyed property worth billions of dollars, brought freedom to over ... , nine of the fifteen Presidents, including all five who served two terms were slave owners (Welch 32), even Ulysis S. Grant, a prominent general in the Civil War had a slave (Jordon 12)". The invention of the cotton gin made it possible to easily separate the c...

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... the death and destruction left in the wake of our actions in Vietnam. The unnecessary and extremely controversial involvement of the United States in Vietnam's civil war, was an occurrence that was overall a large mistake on the part of the U.S. This is shown by: the injustice and unpopularity of the draft ... years to decide which leader would completely rule the country as a whole. However; in the interim, the north and south began a violent and political civil war. During this time, Ho Chi Minh had asked for the United States help in defending against the corrupt government of the sou...

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... of the people in the colonies considered themselves American, not English and felt that it was necessary to separate from Britain, no matter what the cost. The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. This war is depicted in several movies such as Gettysburg and Glory. Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. These men ... too to support a cause, which is something they had never done before. The movie Gettysburg is an epic retelling of personal and historical events surrounding the decisive battle of the Civil War (Gettysburg). The South...

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... of the people in the colonies considered themselves American, not English and felt that it was necessary to separate from Britain, no matter what the cost. The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. This war is depicted in several movies such as Gettysburg and Glory. Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. These men ... too to support a cause, which is something they had never done before. The movie Gettysburg is an epic retelling of personal and historical events surrounding the decisive battle of the Civil War (Gettysburg). The South...

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... against international law such as the Geneva contract. But before I continue with this point I must say that I understand that our soldiers were fighting a war, which can be gruesome and sometimes they would have to do unthinkable things to survive. But that alone does not justify why over 500,000 Vietnamese civilians ... including women and children were killed during our involvement in the war. One example of an incident that added greatly to these numbers was the My Lai massacre. When U.S soldiers had rounded up and murdered hundreds ... as a nation experienced the same hardships of...

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... a major issue yet when President John F. Kennedy took office in 1961. The bigger issue was the Cold War. The Vietnam conflict only became a larger issue when a civil war broke out in Laos, We needed to find out how serious this problem was so we sent vice president ... destroying twenty-five patrol boats and some oil storage facilities. " (Hopkins, pg. 43) With this decision alone, President Johnson escalated the war. Soon after President Johnson order the bombing of two North Vietnamese targets, Congress authorized the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. This gave the president ... of 1968, th...

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... switched to totalitarian governments (both totally different) and used propaganda to build the people up and improve the economy. Shortly after, Spain had civil unrest as it sat between the lines of totalitarianism and democracy while fellow fascist supporters (Russia, Italy, and Germany) aided Spain's path to ... basically used the Koreans as puppets to do their bidding. While Americans and other counties did fight, it was more for the war against communism than civil rights of Nothern Korea. Also, the United States still engaged in battle despite lack of funds and proper equipment. The...

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... the Vietnamese's way of life, including their educational, social, and political systems. Chinese political and social institutions were introduced. Vietnamese education was based on the Confucian concept of the civil service examination system. Chinese style also became dominant in literature and the arts. Educated Vietnamese conversed and wrote in Chinese, and the Chinese system of ideographic characters was adopted as ... and virtuous individuals to serve in the bureaucracy. Officials were not chosen exclusively from the landed aristocracy, as in much of the rest of the world, but th...

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... nation's longest, cost fifty-eight thousand American lives. Only the Civil War and the two world wars were deadlier for Americans. During the decade of Vietnam beginning in 1964, the U.S Treasury spent over $140 billion on the war, enough money to fund urban renewal projects in every major American city. Despite these enormous costs and their accompanying public and ... and other American leaders, having no sympathy for French colonialism, favored Vietnamese independence. But expanding communist control of Eastern Europe and the triumph of the communists in China's civil was made Franc...

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... usually driven by hate with low intentions of peace). Not all acts of violence are peace motivated though. Only when morality is present can a war hold a just cause which then presents a new question. What is moral? Opinions may differ with each culture. What one group believes morally right ... in its train and made the mistake of losing their site of serenity. To this day, Middle Eastern problems have yet to cease and war has failed to result in peace. Yet again history repeats itself as the blame rests on the formula that hatred toward dissimilar beliefs and ... a refusal of compromis...

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... established a military group in 1945, called the Vietminh, that would serve as the military fight against the French in the war named the First Indochina War. The war lasted 9 years and many Vietnamese lives were lost,(8,000 dead), but their determination for independence was not to be denied. ... 55). At the time, the United States was in the midst of its own conflict with Russia, which was called the Cold War. After World War II and The Korean Conflict, the last thing U.S. citizens wanted was for the government to send troops into Vietnam. In 1961, ... South Vietnamese citizens. The U....

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... nation in which they were free of Britain's tyranny. They wanted to live as an independent nation and survive as one. The American Civil War was another national survival. President Lincoln had the point that if was the unsuccessful or was pushed in the right direction then the nation ... politics rather than the traditional reasons the United States had fought wars in the past. The Koreans began in the middle of the cold war. The war was fought as a result of North Korea invading the south. "Large movements of troops, tanks. Ordinance and ammunition to the border areas ... a civilian he ...

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The civil rights movement had been a growing cause since the 13th, 14th, and amendments were passed in the 19th century. These abolished slavery, provided equal rights under the law, and ... Vietnamese military and began to fight the communist forces. 200,000 men were sent to fight and later a draft sent about 35,000 men a month to fight the war. The US began to suffer losses due to the same reason that the French did--their inability to fight the guerrilla style of warfare that the viet cong implemented. The ... their ideals on taxes and government control of the economy. Hubert Horatio Hu...

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... then that. The action taken must be under control. As soon as a crowd becomes unruly and disorganized or violent in any way, the action ceases to be civil. There are many forms of civil disobedience. During the time of British occupation of America, revolutionaries used tea and tax boycotts to mobilize citizens to their cause. In the late 1800's, women used silent ... vigils, mass demonstrations and hunger strikes to acquire the right to vote. Labor organizations have used civil disobedience to receive benefits on many occasions. From 1935-1937 the Congress of Industrial Organizations o...

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... side completely. In addition to developments in Vietnam, China and Korea made the United States more concerned about communism. China had a civil war between the communists under Mao Zedong who led the struggle in the north and nationalists under China's president, Chiang Kai-shek in the south ... during the 1940's. During this civil war the United States sent the Nationalists approximately $3 billion in aid. (Americans 613). Even though Chiang Kai-shek received aid from the ... entente which stopped the fighting between each other. It was the U.S' first achievement to contain communism...

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... CIA wars, actually helped the Communist forces in those countries to win support. By 1975 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia had Communist governments (Westdad, Cuban and Vietnamese Challenges). The war sparked a series of social movements and criticism of Johnson's involvement in Vietnam. University-wide administration imposed numerous rules designed to keep politics off of all the University campuses.  In ... Mossadeq in 1953, Iran, under the Shah, became a powerful U.S ally. As the Shah's regime, supported by the U.S., became increasingly repressive, riots in 1978 developed into a state of ...

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... and technology, the modern media such as televisions had broadcast news, images to every American family. The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. They ... 1970, when hundreds of universities and colleges across the United States stopped operating in fear of the outbreak of violence related to the war protesting movement. Students from many universities started to demonstrate on the streets. On the following day, May 1, Kent State Universit...

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... most intense expression of this public disappointment was triggered by the press coverage of one of the most decisive events in the entire war. Decisive precisely because of the reportage it received, not because of its military significance. On 30 January 1968, the Vietnamese lunar ... was the greatest contributing factor of the media's impact on the American public. Outraged by the US government's false claims regarding the war, Cronkite flew to Vietnam to make his own assessment of the situation first hand.34 Cronkite interviewed a number of high ranked officers ... agony while her ...

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... 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 bomb and later the hydrogen bomb, it was thought that any weapon could be ... ratification, both President Ford and Secretary-General Brezhnev agreed to stand by it, as well as the SALT I Treaty. The conventional wars of the Cold War were many, but without the use of nuclear arms. During 1950 the North Korean government sought to gain control of the divided South Korean peninsula and crossed .....

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... fifty-eight thousand American lives. Only the Civil War and the two World Wars were deadlier ("Vietnam War-). The U.S. Treasury spent over $140 billion on the war, enough money to fund urban renewal projects in every major American city ("Vietnam War-). The initial reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam seemed logical and compelling to American leaders. Following its success in WWII, the U.S. faced the ... on the battlefield, it had to be a long, devastating four years in office for each president. Harry S. Truman was one of the first presidents to assist in the war ("Vietnam War-). T...

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... front there was also killing going on. College students were getting killed, along with blacks. Blacks wanted more power. There were many movements for civil rights and people were getting killed just for wanting to be equal. College Students were rallying to create awareness about all the young people that ... used to help fund American programs. In the election of 1968 Richard Nixon was elected and promised to get out country out of the war. He started the Vietnamization which when we sent our troops to equip and train the South Vietnamese to take over fighting so U.S. troops ... flig...

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... North Korea backed by China and US along with UN. Communist expansion has been feared much by the United States, especially after the Korean War. Cold war begins to escalade dramatically from 1951. In 1951 North Korea backed by communist China carried aggression against South Korea, China conquers Tibet. 1962 ... Cuban missile crisis bring world as close to nuclear war as never before and in 1964 China detonated it first nuclear bomb. By 1950's South-East Asia became place where interest of superpowers, such ... (Nixon NY Times 28 March 1985) M. L. King Mentions in his "Declaration of In...

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... or reacting to something, except for the dead bodies. The grandeur of this scene makes it look almost biblical. A monument that depicts war is the Vietnam War Memorial. It was designed between 1981 and 1984 by Maya Lin. It has two 246 foot black polished granite wings and is located in ... will and determination has risen above death and destruction. A photograph that represents my idea of war is On the Antietam Battlefield by Matthew B. Brady. This photo was taken in 1862, right after a battle during the Civil War. According to the text, actual battles could not be photographed because ...

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