Defense Secretary Robert McNamara during the Vietnam era admits in his memoirs that Vietnam War was a mistake. ... Communist expansion has been feared much by the United States, especially after the Korean War. ... (Dodd 812) United States entered the war to oppose spread of communism in one of the key region of the world United States had to fight communism everywhere it can to protect it influence and maintain existing order. ... He like many people of that had doubts what is true reason why United States entered Vietnam War. ... Robert S. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book opens with a brief description of the training the soldiers of the 1st battalion 7th Calvary received before leaving the United States. ... Secretary of State Robert Lansing on June 18, 1919, he was looking for help in freeing his people from French colonial domination after the First World War. ... Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's reliance on numbers and the lack of a Vietnam policy contributed to the ill advice Kennedy received. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prolonged United States involvement the number of people agai...

• Word Count: 2373
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After the difficulties encountered during the air war in Vietnam, the leaders of the Air Force of the United States decided to seek creative ways to improved aircrew training. ... Nevertheless, from the implementation of the doctrine of air assault by the United States Army, ground commanders began to use them for all aspects of combat (recognition, escort, attack, fire support, close air support, troop movement, transportation, accidental medical evacuation, and logistical support) in order to form a self-sufficient and versatile assault force, day or night. Transformation of Army Aviation,...

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After Johnson announced that he would not accept or seek another Presidential nomination from his party, this left the field open for two people, Nixon and Robert Kennedy. ... Kennedy (Robert) The battle between McCarthy and Kennedy would have been an easy one for Kennedy to pull off, if he hadn't been assassinated two months to the day that King had. ... Kennedy, like McCarthy, would be able to identify with the people of the United States. ...

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He stated, "1) The United States would keep its treaty commitments. 2) The United States would provide a shield if a nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation allied with us or of a nation whose survival we consider vital to our security. 3) In cases involving non-nuclear aggression, the United States would look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility of providing the manpower for defense.- It was thought that if America would not always be a safety net for smaller countries, they would increase their defense systems to be more adequate for the job. ... T...

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The United States was fighting all communism and was strong on the idea of liberating all enslaved people of the world, and for many this included Native Americans. ... The Cold War experiences of African Americans and Native Americans mirrored each other in many ways, but Natives had an entirely different fight then blacks due to termination policies, the actual fact that Native Americans are the true inhabitants of this land and the hundreds of treaties between the United States and Native tribes that a Crow politician, Robert Yellowtail, called the "sacred covenants" of American history. .....

• Word Count: 1633
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the early 1960s, while other Midwestern states such as Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin led the nation in appropriations for construction in institutions of higher education, Ohio lagged far behind. ... Kent State president Robert White, who looked back upon an era when the school had been smaller and the students conformed to Cold War political and social mores, declined to take disciplinary action against the conservative assailants. ...

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We WON the war? The Vietnam War lasted through six presidents, 50,000 dead American Soldiers and 25 years of battle. In 1945 Vietnamese nationalist declared independence from France. In 1954 France surrenders 10,000. Vietnam splits, North and South. American's thought that Vietnam was thought to ...

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The United States was unable to defeat communism in South-East Asia between those years because of their ineptitude, and the superior tactics of the Viet Cong. ... A big worry for the US administration was when Robert McNamara's change of stance on the war, which was surprising as he originally advocated it. ...

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What was the war being fought for except for the notion to end a Communist threat to the United States' Imperialistic power? ... As Robert LaBrasca puts it, " consumer America dropped like phosphorus bombs into simple agrarian villages and wild forests" (LaBrasca 291). ...

• Word Count: 2033
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