... two Korean countries instead of the possible unification. 2) Failure of the U.S. to adequately provide the ROK army with weapons. 3) A few words missed by Dean Acheson in a speech and 4) Failure of the U.S. to warn North Korea adequately that any aggression on there part would be met by force by the ... continued to pour into the port of Pusan and the units holding the perimeter began to fight the combined arms warfare they were trained for. Counterattacks in local areas soon uncovered atrocities committed by the NKPA and found captured soldiers had been executed. News of these atrocitie...

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... channels. The major national television news sources were the evening network newscasts anchored by people like Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, and David Brinkley. The all news stations such as CNN would not arrive for over another decade, so news time devoted to the Vietnam War was usually limited to a ... their business without fearing reprisals from the police. CBS was the news leader during the Vietnam War years. Opinion polls said that CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite was "the most trusted man in America" (Hallin 106). Morley Safer, a CBS news correspondent in Vietnam, issued a story...

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... do. I believe we can help them to do it. But I also believe that we must reexamine our own attitude - as individuals and as a Nation - for our attitude is as essential as theirs. And every graduate of this school, every thoughtful citizen who despairs of war and wishes to bring peace, should begin by ... established itself as a world power during the two world wars. Therefore, the cold war was a time in which Americans were trying to get a name for themselves by showing how great, life in their country was. Shows like Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best portrayed the stereotypical Am...

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... to save Democracy. Every war after the Kelogg-Briand Pact was put into action was started because of the direct opposite ideal the pact was striving for. By stopping the countries that did not have a Democratic Government one must take force to push that government behind that curtain, thus becoming a ... was referred to as the Truman Doctrine. When discussing the economic standing of Greece and Turkey, Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson stated "He stated that more was at stake than Greece and Turkey, for if those two key states should fall, Communism would likely spread south to Iran ...

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... led to post-traumatic stress disorder, which is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event resulting in psychological trauma. Treatments for PTSD usually include psychological and medical treatments. The medications used to cure PTSD include antidepressants like Prozac and Zoloft. Symptoms of PTSD include flashbacks ... , and other nationalities experienced PTSD due to the Korean War.   The war led to battles including The Frozen Chosen, Pork Chop Hill, The Battle for Seoul, Yultong Bridge, Bloody Ridge, old Baldy, The Pusan Perimeter, and The Battle of Incho...

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... of the house committee on Un-American Activities regarding the espionage charges against Alger Hiss made him both a national and a controversial figure. Starting from 1952, Nixon was the vice president for 8 years under Eisenhower. The election of 1960 proved unlucky to Nixon, competing with Kennedy and finally in the election of 1968, Nixon was nominated as the President. His presidency was ... the president (CREEP). The Special Investigations Unit, known as the "plumbers," an outfit illegally equipped by the CIA was also created to discredit potential Democratic opponents. Soon Nixon a...

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... the left wing, and as a result many Cubans left . There was so much opposition to Castro's developments that he created a Committee for Defense of the Revolution out of fear of invasion from the US, and internal guerrilla uprisings. Castro had taken away the profit producing properties ... and this angered them. In 1898 America gave many benefits to Cuba, it helped modernize Cuban industry, education and medicine and expected loyalty for doing so. Cuba was angered that between 1945 and 1960 they gave more money than all of Latin America combined. At first Americans gave ... In the fal...

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... post-war design that embodied youthfulness, centered on color and form, and, most importantly, displayed their womanliness. Furthermore, female expertise in regards to fashion opened up new avenues of professionalism for women "the dress salon became a place where women's professional competence was unquestioned. As Marling admits, however, not all Americans bought into the "New Look." Some women viewed the ... of youth culture "it also served foreign policy purposes as a Cold War symbol of democracy and freedom. "Moderately priced fashions" on display at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair ...

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... East flooded into the Western part of Germany, whose economy was not capable of supplying day-to-day essentials (Hemmling, H D.) Under international law, the occupying powers were responsible for preventing starvation, disease and internal uprisings that could be a danger to the occupying forces. This obligation was confirmed in the Potsdam Agreement in July, 1945 (Delong, J E.) To ... part as the new Secretary of State, convinced the American Government of the need to counter the advance of communism. Following the Moscow Conference, the then Under-Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, sugg...

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... on April 11, 1951 for attempting to gain support in advancement from Senators who supported Chiang Kai-shek. Many Americans, including senator McCarthy, were angry and convinced communists in the State Department had managed to stop MacArthur from possibly wiping out communism. Looking to place the blame somewhere, McCarthy accused Dean Acheson, secretary of state, of being responsible to the ... McCarthy was asked to chair the Government Operations Committee, which had the large task of studying government waste, in an attempt to keep him quiet and prevent any potential problems for th...

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... designated Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgway as his successor." Macarthur had wanted to do, America government itself, in its "greater Sanctions" (Stokesbury 257). Truman was willingness to accept responsibility for difficult decisions made him one of the most controversial of presidents (http://encarta.msn.com). President Truman's perspective to see the Korean War, and his problems. President Truman decided that ... B Ridgway 92). President Truman announced his opposition to defending Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa, and in a famous speech to the National Press Club on January 12, Secre...

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... 666). Their differences during this conference referred to the Russians wanting to rebuild their country with Germany, as Truman opposed, believing it would cost for the caring of the defeated Germans (Divine 666). Eventually a compromise was made, thanks to Truman's persistence and "banging through" multiple post war ... Italy, and France were slowly recovering from the devastation of the war (Divine 670). Years of depression, food scarce, and resentment called for the growing interest in communist voting and expansion, especially in France and Italy (Divine 670). The Marshall Plan was ...

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... Kennan made suggestions to promote any strain between the international communist movement and Moscow. If successful the Soviet Union could not control an angry communistic China, nor would they stand for independent minded Czechoslovakia. Since China could create a threat to the Soviet Union, the U.S., without taking on responsibility, would support Titoism in Yugoslavia and perhaps collaborate with other communistic ... policy makers Although in the end the containment ideals did succeed in its goal to end communism, many did disagree and critique its way of thinking. A journalist of...

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... the place, rifle the files, and bring them in."4 These were the first words that began the Watergate scandal which ruined president Nixon. For four months, a ton of hidden microphones picked up Nixon's most private office conversations; the microphones were everywhere. Nixon had secret voice-activated taping ... fought in the courts to keep the tapes from the prosecutors. Nixon was linked to the cover up of his old council John Dean. The question that everybody was asking was, "What did the president know and when did he know it?"5 The tapes revealed that ... House committee showed that...

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... dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States As she [the housewife] made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid ... of race or gender (Reynolds). Many women took this legislation to heart, and with it, were motivated to start banding together to fight for equality in the workplace and in American society. The formation of the National Organization of Women (NOW), with Frie...

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In seeking truth, you have to get both sides of a story. -Walter Cronkite The origins of the Cold War have been debated since 1945 when, at the end of World War II, ... policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. Containment provided a conceptual framework for a series of successful initiatives undertaken from 1947 to 1950 to blunt Soviet expansion. Given the innate hostility of the Soviet Union and settled upon a policy ... righteous and compassionate; on the contrary, revisionist scholars saw eagern...

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... designed to limit or even reduce the arms race and subsequently acknowledged their mutual interest in self preservation. During the seventies the process of détente reached new heights. Pressures for a further series of agreements on arms control increased as the deadliness and cost of more advanced weapon systems increased. This led to a period of talks between the two powers, ... was becoming evermore unlikely. West Germany also made a major contribution to the relaxation of Soviet America relations through its Ostpolitik (Eastern policy). In 1955 the then West German foreign minister...

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... domination. As William Chafe has written of containment policy: "...containment ceased to be a specific and precise response to a particular situation and, instead, became a diffuse, universal rationale for resisting any change in the international status quo...The result was a massive distortion of reality-. The Truman Doctrine divided the world into two kinds of political systems: Free and Oppressive ... nations only surface as US advisers such as Kennan miss-interpertated USSR's determination to prevent the scenario of WWII happening again, as an attempt to overthrow Western Capitalism...

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... local needs rather than the central. As a result, "The number of sovnarkhozy was reduced by mergers, a process that illustrated the need for a hierarchical management system to limit its transaction costs by containing the number of reporting units to be supervised at each level. The abolished ministries ... to that of Stalin's. However, with his speech before the XXth party congress in February 1956 it became clear Khrushchev "could do without the old monster" (McCauley 218). His "secret speech" revealed the crimes committed by Stalin and launched his "de-Stalinization" campaign. Khrush...

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... local needs rather than the central. As a result, "The number of sovnarkhozy was reduced by mergers, a process that illustrated the need for a hierarchical management system to limit its transaction costs by containing the number of reporting units to be supervised at each level. The abolished ministries ... to that of Stalin's. However, with his speech before the XXth party congress in February 1956 it became clear Khrushchev "could do without the old monster" (McCauley 218). His "secret speech" revealed the crimes committed by Stalin and launched his "de-Stalinization" campaign. Khrush...

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... but in the process destroyed our country's villages, land, and people. Imagine that this hypothetical country had not been asked by the South for assistance, but simply interfered because the morals in their land disagreed with the idea of freeing slaves. This purely metaphorical circumstance is almost parallel ... America, the country of freedom and equality, was ordering young boys into battle without even considering their opinion. This contributed to very poor moral for the soldiers once in Vietnam. Many were unwilling to fight in battle and escaped into the Vietnamese countryside o...

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... even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you, because you yourself understand perfectly of what terrible forces our countries dispose. Consequently, if there is no intention to tighten that knot and thereby to ... catastrophe of thermonuclear war, then let us not only relax the forces pulling on the ends of the rope, let us take measures to untie that knot. We are ready for this. States would have attacked Cuba and it would all have turned out into a big battlefield of...

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... "do something" to end the war. The atomic bomb was considered quick and even economical way to win the war, even though it was a cruel and unusual form of punishment for the Japanese citizens. The bomb was considered a quick end to the war but it was a slow and painful death to many people in Japan. The Japanese had radiation poisoning that ... "do something" to end the war. The atomic bomb was considered quick and even economical way to win the war, even though it was a cruel and unusual form of punishment for the Japanese citizens. The bomb was considered a quick end to the war but it...

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... established the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union would come to declared war on the capitalist nations of the West. The two countries put all this aside in their mutual hatred for one another, and fought against Germany during World War II. This alliance would come to an end between 1944-45, when Joseph Stalin looking to extend Soviet control used the ... the U.S. to stress economic development in the post war era. The U.S. believed that it needed to promote postwar economic development in Latin America but was unwilling to make a specific commitment for assistance. As a region Latin Ameri...

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... food and supplies to satisfy its citizens. Similar to past expansionism, the years up to 1914 were also focused on moving West. Although the Americans were also fighting for Cuba, the main fight was for the Philippines and later, expeditions to China to trade. In 1898, Spain still controlled the Philippines, but Commodore George Dewey was commanded to sail with his ten ... gain control of Manilla. On May 1st, 1898, he accomplished this and became a hero overnight. In the Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League of 1899, Americans tried to apologize for the bloodshed in the Phili...

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