... reason for colonising Vietnam - the civilising mission (mission civilisatrice) - the obligation of advanced peoples of modern civilisation to the primitive peoples of Asia and Africa. This was: "the white man's burden". In August 1858 the French landed at Da Nang and after three and a half years fighting under the ... invaded France in 1940, Japan readied itself to move into French Indochina. The Japanese saw Indochina as a stepping stone to the rest of South-East Asia as well as a storehouse of vital supplies. However, the Japanese allowed French officials to continue to run the country...

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... 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 as United States, China and USSR, as well as fading colonial empires like France and ... security and security of the entire free world demands that firm line be drawn against the further advance of Communist imperialism - in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, and in Europe." (Dodd 810) More third world countries fall into the communist hands in 1960's that ever before. Cuba ... Algeria, China, an...

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... that makes it dependent upon another nation for various reasons that could be militarily or economical. An example of this is the United States dependence upon oil from the Middle East and having a military presence there to protect our interests. Countries do not all have the same technological capabilities. This again goes back to money because countries cannot afford to research ... your country to form a huge army. Also the training of armies in every country is different. For instance the training of the United States army is much better than Africa's or South America's. The will o...

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... Centerfall (1992, p.3062), it was found that the annual Caucasian homicide rate doubled after the introduction of television. This study also concluded that an equal rate occurred in Canada and South Africa at that same period. In these instances the lag of the study and the doubling of the homicide rate was fifteen years. In turn, the children would have had to ... age those fifteen years, to be old enough to affect this rate. In comparing the US with South America, the Vietnam War could be a factor in those skyrocketing rates. As Centerfall stated that Canada, who were without war, wa...

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... up to World War I, a series of regional events raised the public opinion that the British/Australian alliance was not appropriate or mutually beneficial. The Germans annexed and invaded North-east New Guinea - land very close to Australian shores. Forces from Queensland attempted to intervene and to stop the German invasion to maintain stability in the Australasian Region, but their ... attempts to maintain security in their immediate surrounding region, Australian forces were put on stand-by to aid British troops on the other side of the world, in Khartoum and South Africa. The basis of ...

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