... communist party in 1930 and president from 1945 -69 of the democratic republic of Vietnam. Gulf of Tonkin incident- is the body of water that lies on the east coast of n. Vietnam and the west coast of the island hainan. This was the waters for the staging area of the U.S. seventh fleet. Eventually led to the escalation and official documentation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam National liberation front- ... for deterrence of localized wars overseas. It must be made by the governments and by the people of the states affected by those wars not by America. Rosa Parks- black American civil r...

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... though. President Reagan and Bush dropped public housing funds from 30 billion dollars to 6.7 billion, a net loss of 37,800 houses per year. By the beginning of the 1990s, over one million people were on waiting lists for homes. Homeless people can be categorized into four basic categories, families, lone, transient, or bums ... For a week they lived on ketchup and mustard. Within three days of the condiments disappearing the boy had both his feet amputated due to frostbite. This was in New York. There are some people who still have a spark of interest in finding jobs. They look for pla...

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... trade and wealth. It was the reason to Britain's imperial success in the Eastern hemisphere. In Central Asia, the Russians extended its territory after the collapse of the Ottoman and Qing Empires. Russia took all of the silk roads and Central Asia. Russia was right next to British India, and could easily spark a continental war. In Southeast Asia, the French created French Indochina, consisting ... of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The French made Christianity ... prominent in these countries. They did not take Siam as it was a good buffer state between British India and French Indochin...

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... force and invade Cambodia to try and stop this potential threat. The US believed that if they were able bomb Cambodia and Vietnam, it would make the go into submission. This was the beginning or the spark to the Vietnam War. Some damages were inflicted on the Cambodians with loss of troops, food and other supplies. The United States also took a couple of hits. Some US troops were ... lost, but the main asset that the US was putting into this war was money. In ... the beginning only Marine units were present in the invasion. In May and June ... ...

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