I"m against any war, and Vietnam War is no exception. ... Defense Secretary Robert McNamara during the Vietnam era admits in his memoirs that Vietnam War was a mistake. ... Cold war begins to escalade dramatically from 1951. ... Results of the war cannot be justified. ... Cost of war was enormous. ...
Throughout this era however, the phrase 'history repeats itself' comes to mind. ... Vietnam became a major defiance state that later helped to shape the outcome of the Cold War. ... The Vietnam War became a proxy between the United States, the Soviet Union and communist China. ... In being involved in such a war the U.S had failed militarily. ... Though the U.S was at war abroad, the media seemed to import that war to the U.S. ...
Since Socrates' era, many acts of civil disobedience have occurred and, many people say, propelled society forwards in its development of the definition of justice. ... Although it had violated the draft law, the Declaration of Conscience was necessary to those who opposed the war. ... The Declaration urged men to disobey the draft in order to force an end to the war. ... Through peaceful action against the war, the signers of the Declaration of Conscience demonstrated civil disobedience. ... Knowing the outcome of the Vietnam War makes it easy to argue that the Declaration of Conscie...
Remember the episodes depicting Bugs and the gang in Word War I or World War II garb and situations? ... (Dudley & Bender, 1990, p. 76) The media, ever since being the puppet of the World War I and World War II government has since strived not only to cut the strings, but also to become the puppet master. ... What the press brought to the dinner table brought out the opposition to the war. ... (Dudley & Bender, 1990, p. 76-77) News stories that entered the Vietnam era homes, included those of American soldiers burning villages and cutting ears off dead Viet Cong. ... In both cases support f...
The decade ended under the shadow of the Vietnam war, which deeply divided Americans and their allies and damaged the country's self-confidence and sense of purpose. ... However, what they often tend to overlook is the large emphasis "freedoms" had on the era. ... The combination of defiance, revolution, and drugs created a major Hippie era. ... And to top off the hippie era, one of the largest concerts in the world took place in Woodstock, New York. ... Hippies, racism, drugs, war, and breaking every rule that had ever been set gave this time a very deserved place in ...
Throughout the era of 1949 to 1991, China came into conflict with the liberal-capitalist USA and the Marxist-Leninist USSR. ... In the post-Cold War world no power can challenge the US. ... However, the Vietnam War generated more debate and controversy than that of any other war in history between the great rival ideologies of communism and capitalism. ... Map showing who were supporting North Vietnam and South Vietnam in the Vietnam War, 1954). ... Through both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, one can see that even though both USA and China had different ideologies through their foreign po...
Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie by Francis Ford Coppola are two works that parallel one another, but at the same time reflect their own era in time and their creator's own personal feelings and prejudices. ... "Apocalypse Now " was released in 1979 and was set in a war and hostile Vietnam. Conrad uses ivory traders as his characters in Heart of Darkness and the ivory trade in "Apocalypse Now, " Coppola uses soldiers and the Vietnam War. ... He understands what happened to men during the Vietnam War and why so many of them went mad. ... Heart of Dar...
This disposition helped to alleviate the pressures inflicted by the war culture embraced on America's home front. Each era in American history has factors that distinctively define the attitudes and emotions of that particular period. ... In 1969, eighty percent of Americans wanted the war to be over. ... These artists performed songs about the problems of war, culture, government, family, drugs, and sex. ... Many other artists sang about the troubles of war and ideas that Americans openly shared about it. ...
Citizens had a firm belief that they were the best country in the world, and in that post war era, they were. ... With Eisenhower in office, cold war propaganda continues. ... The United States is growing rapidly along with the cold war. ... Even Black soldiers who fought in the war suffered from segregation and racial tensions. ... The U.S. is growing strong and more supportive of its citizens even the cold war is alive and well. ...
His most important era in his presidentency (1963-1968) was his progress of Civil Rights for blacks. ... Johnson made his decision to Americanize the war in July. Americanization of the war sparked the first sustained antiwar protests in the United States. ... When the end of 1967 approached the American public support for the war had dropped to only 39%. ... I believe I did this through the struggles of the Vietnam War. ...
The Kent Committee launched its attack against American involvement in the Vietnam War in February 1965 as 12 students participated in a campus peace picket. ... 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. ... Even though this anti-activist sentiment was echoed by the student newspaper, the Daily Kent Stater, protests against the war and the ROTC grew larger. ... At noon on Friday about 500 students at...
Nixon decided that he did not want the Vietnam war to become a campaign issue; but he did pledge to end the war if he was elected. ... President Richard Nixon inherited a country at war, aggravation, and violence. ... However, people back in the United States saw this as expansion of the war. ... The meeting of the two countries, reduced tensions and acknowledged an alteration in world politics, and risks of war with China were reduced. ... During the era of the Vietnam war, there was a nation wide student protest. ...
The Integration of Air Mobility During the Vietnam War, leaders observed the integration of air mobility assets as a force multiplier. ... This tactical basis has allowed the Air Force to remain in good standing, as demonstrated by the effectiveness of combat during the Gulf War and the Balkans. ... One of the first aviation units' activated to contribute significantly to the war efforts in Vietnam included, 1st Calvary, 11th Air Assault Division (TEST). ... These units' aircraft were the sustaining force of the Army's first air transport division and the continued war effor...
