... 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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... 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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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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... 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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... 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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... more attention to their orders, and less on peace, we would not have had such a great loss of soldiers in Vietnam. As this war progressed, so did civil unrest. One hundred thousand protesters gathered in New York, and even more in San Francisco. Riots broke out here, and in other big ... on the streets. Some could not take being ostracized, so instead they ended up taking their own lives (Bexte). Still to this day, protesters of war are affecting big city commuters, and living. In March of 2003, when Operation: Iraqi Freedom started, San Francisco was bombarded with protesters. So many ...

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... the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The latter being the one that caused most dissention amongst the general public in both countries. The slogan "All the way with LBJ" (Lynden B Johnson) rang hollow with the Australian public because they felt they had no connection with the civil war raging in Vietnam ... and the fact that conscription was implemented only added fuel to the fire. However, for many World War 2 veterans the Battle of the Coral Sea stands out as a turning point in the ... perceived danger of making Fremantle a terrorist target with aircraft carriers and their support fl...

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... while an unpopular government setup by the French with it's capital in Saigon controlled the South. After many years of political disagreement, a civil war broke out. The North (the communist Vietcong) and the South (the capitalist French and USA). 1965. With Australia allied to America ... the same. It was on the 27th of December 1972, the newly elected Labor government in Australia stopped all Australian involvement in the war. The war ended not long after that in January 1973 when a cease-fire agreement was reached and all American ground troops were brought home. ... 1975. The North ...

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... this paper, American troops are fighting in Afghanistan. They are doing what they are told and we are all very proud of them. Whether it is a civil war or a world war, the results are always the same. In the end there are always large amounts of death and destruction, followed by questions about whether or not it should ... the right decisions, yet we lost so many lives and we did not even accomplish anything. It is these mistakes that we should learn from. However, sometimes war can not be avoided. When this is the case, we must look at the people in power. Are they making the right d...

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... As the cameras pointes at the police the demonstrators chanted, "The whole world is watching." These broadcasts opened Americans eyes that the war in Vietnam was not the only one being fought. Not everyone in Johnson's administration agreed that the troops should be escalated in ... Secretary of State George Ball, Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, State Department Advisor James Thompson, and Vice- President Hubert Humphrey believed that this war was not the United States battle. George Ball stated, " No matter how many hundred thousand white, foreign troops we deploy. No one ... ...

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... Truman, did not want to involve America in any military action wanted to give the Greek government as much support as he could during the Civil War. All its movements were easy to monitor – even submarines, as listening devices had been placed on the seabed that easily picked up the ... to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." When the United States and the Soviet Union went to war, they both used several types of weapons and bombs such as, Pistols. Rifels. Assult Rifles, Sub-machine guns. Machine guns, Sniper Rifles, ...

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... Vietnam over government issues. They had just become independent, and Northern Vietnam wanted to be a communist state. Southern Vietnam didn't really like that, thus a civil war started. Because the United States was and still is an anti-communist country, we decided that we should help the Southern Vietnam. In the beginning, the ... Southern Vietnam surrendered and Vietnam reunited. In the end, there were 60,000 American death's and around 2 million Vietnamese deaths. One poet from the Vietnam War was Bruce Weigl. Bruce Weigl was born in 1949 and was a poet, Bruce was an English profe...

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... the consensus that supported it. It divided the American people as no other event since their own Civil War a century earlier. One in ten who served in this war was a casualty. Was this war worth it? I think not. The Soviet Union at the time had a Communist government. They ... that with the "fall" of North Vietnam to Communism, all of Southeast Asia might fall, setting off a sort of Communist chain reaction. The war began as a determined attempt by Communist guerrillas (the so-called Vietcong) in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government ... By 1973 tha...

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... - PROTEST MOVEMENT In the early stages of the Vietnam War people were all for it, until they started to see through the media that their country men and women were not fighting for what ... home in Australia were soon realising that this had to stop and stop now! It seemed the more the media showed the more the Australian public wanted the war to stop and their soldier's home. In 1970: Anti-Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Begun In May the first of three moratoriums was held to protest against Australia's continuing ... participation in the Vietnam War and against conscription. The May mora...

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James Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied art history and political science. Images from the Vietnam War and the American civil rights movement had a powerful effect on him and were instrumental in his decision to become a photographer. James Nachtwey began photographing in the early 1980's and was a contract photographer for Time ... continents, including Africa, most notably in Rwanda, which is where this picture is from. I discovered Nachtwey through one of my friends. They suggested I go see a documentary film about Nachtwey entitled W...

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... began to emerge. Consequently, this ensured hostility and a huge loss of public support which ultimately led to political leaders announcing the gradual withdrawal from the war. Conscription, also known as national service, is a system of enrolment where it is compulsory for men and women to join the armed forces. The ... time duties. When this system was introduced, it attracted many opponents, but it was when the government increased the size of Australia's commitment to the war that made the use of conscripts necessary. This caused a significant rise in public opposition. Although man...

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... The lines "There's a battle outside/and it's ragin'/it'll soon shake your windows/rattle your walls" are a reference to the Vietnam War. Dylan also sings the lines, "Come mothers and fathers/throughout the land/and don't criticize/what you can't understand/your sons and daughters are ... were. This song can be interpreted many different ways but it is known to be an anthem for protests,especially protests that involved the Vietnam War (Chuvalas). Songs such as this one were sang and performed during protests all over. There was a group that called themselves the counterculture. They ......

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... quote from the commonwealth parliamentary debates on the 21st of April 1965, Menzies states "I subscribe to the Domino theorybecause I believe it obviousthat if war ends with some compromise that denies South Vietnam a real and well protected independence, Laos and Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia will be vulnerablehas ... 1965, it was made up of middle class woman that were aware politically aware or concerned about their sons and relatives fighting in the war and overseas conscription. Conscription was reintroduced in 1964, it was made a law that every male aged 20 ...

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... the result of misinformation and skewed results of battles and strategies perpetrated by the administration and the military leaders. Consequently, the amount of US service members killed in the war reached 58,220. A major motivation for US Presidents during the Viet Nam intervention was to stop the spread of communism, also called the containment strategy. President Kennedy said in his ... 1961; " pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty ". Kennedy inherited the Cold War policy from Pr...

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... U.S. Marine Corps, Lieutenant Philip Caputo was a part of the ninth Expeditionary Brigade, which was the first group of troops sent into the Vietnam War. His brigade was deployed to Da Nang and they were supposed to set the perimeter for an airstrip that would ensure the arrival and departure of ... a rifle and did not want to be cooped up inside. However, his time away from the battlefields gave Caputo a different outlook on the war. He started to notice that the officers were more concerned over trivial matters rather than strategies. Caputo also describes soldiers showing off the d...

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... and northern was communist. In 1956 an election was going to be used to decide the leader for the whole country but this never happened and the country was split. War began out between the North and the South with communist countries supporting North Vietnam and democratic countries supporting South Vietnam. Communism is a political system which promotes property and resources ... promote the fairest society for everyone as a community. While democracy is used in Australia and means the population is used to elect a government and representatives. Communist forces in The Vietnam War wer...

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... the south with a series of surprise attacks in what's known as the Tet Offensive. "It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1862.html). In reaction to this Nixon authorized "vietnamization, which was a plan to help build up the South Vietnamese ... gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops " (http://www.history.com/topics/vietnamization). And finally, during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, the U.S. began to fight in the war because it was believed that the Vietnamese attacked one of our ships while we were patrolling the Tonkin Gulf. This set ...

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... side maneuvered around them differed, and their costs may very well have been absolute victory, or certain defeat. From the start of the war, the Vietminh had several major problems staring them in the face. One was the rampant disease that plagued many of their guerrilla cells. ... problem the Vietminh faced was the lack of weapons and equipment that they needed to fight off the French at the outset of the war. Help arrived from China, as Chinese communists supplied the Vietminh with more modern weapons, as well as advisors. The Chinese communists also ... element crucial to victory ...

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