... front there was also killing going on. College students were getting killed, along with blacks. Blacks wanted more power. There were many movements for civil rights and people were getting killed just for wanting to be equal. College Students were rallying to create awareness about all the young people that ... used to help fund American programs. In the election of 1968 Richard Nixon was elected and promised to get out country out of the war. He started the Vietnamization which when we sent our troops to equip and train the South Vietnamese to take over fighting so U.S. troops ... flig...

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... bodies in mass graves or piled along roads. Pictures taken from aircraft and satellites can make the destruction seem distant. These photographs can make the war seem disconnected, or distanced from reality. The prints from aircraft show the bombs exploding over a large area, and supposedly hitting its intended targets. ... But what the picture do not show you is the actual death and destruction. This allows for the viewer to see a "civil" war, a war with out the miss drops. When it comes to taking pictures of soldiers, many of the photos have been taken at the same level as the ... pho...

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... while an unpopular government setup by the French with it's capital in Saigon controlled the South. After many years of political disagreement, a civil war broke out. The North (the communist Vietcong) and the South (the capitalist French and USA). 1965. With Australia allied to America ... the same. It was on the 27th of December 1972, the newly elected Labor government in Australia stopped all Australian involvement in the war. The war ended not long after that in January 1973 when a cease-fire agreement was reached and all American ground troops were brought home. ... 1975. The North ...

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... As the cameras pointes at the police the demonstrators chanted, "The whole world is watching." These broadcasts opened Americans eyes that the war in Vietnam was not the only one being fought. Not everyone in Johnson's administration agreed that the troops should be escalated in ... Secretary of State George Ball, Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, State Department Advisor James Thompson, and Vice- President Hubert Humphrey believed that this war was not the United States battle. George Ball stated, " No matter how many hundred thousand white, foreign troops we deploy. No one ... ...

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... the consensus that supported it. It divided the American people as no other event since their own Civil War a century earlier. One in ten who served in this war was a casualty. Was this war worth it? I think not. The Soviet Union at the time had a Communist government. They ... that with the "fall" of North Vietnam to Communism, all of Southeast Asia might fall, setting off a sort of Communist chain reaction. The war began as a determined attempt by Communist guerrillas (the so-called Vietcong) in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government ... By 1973 tha...

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... - PROTEST MOVEMENT In the early stages of the Vietnam War people were all for it, until they started to see through the media that their country men and women were not fighting for what ... home in Australia were soon realising that this had to stop and stop now! It seemed the more the media showed the more the Australian public wanted the war to stop and their soldier's home. In 1970: Anti-Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Begun In May the first of three moratoriums was held to protest against Australia's continuing ... participation in the Vietnam War and against conscription. The May mora...

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... began to emerge. Consequently, this ensured hostility and a huge loss of public support which ultimately led to political leaders announcing the gradual withdrawal from the war. Conscription, also known as national service, is a system of enrolment where it is compulsory for men and women to join the armed forces. The ... time duties. When this system was introduced, it attracted many opponents, but it was when the government increased the size of Australia's commitment to the war that made the use of conscripts necessary. This caused a significant rise in public opposition. Although man...

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... quote from the commonwealth parliamentary debates on the 21st of April 1965, Menzies states "I subscribe to the Domino theorybecause I believe it obviousthat if war ends with some compromise that denies South Vietnam a real and well protected independence, Laos and Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia will be vulnerablehas ... 1965, it was made up of middle class woman that were aware politically aware or concerned about their sons and relatives fighting in the war and overseas conscription. Conscription was reintroduced in 1964, it was made a law that every male aged 20 ...

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... the result of misinformation and skewed results of battles and strategies perpetrated by the administration and the military leaders. Consequently, the amount of US service members killed in the war reached 58,220. A major motivation for US Presidents during the Viet Nam intervention was to stop the spread of communism, also called the containment strategy. President Kennedy said in his ... 1961; " pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty ". Kennedy inherited the Cold War policy from Pr...

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... U.S. Marine Corps, Lieutenant Philip Caputo was a part of the ninth Expeditionary Brigade, which was the first group of troops sent into the Vietnam War. His brigade was deployed to Da Nang and they were supposed to set the perimeter for an airstrip that would ensure the arrival and departure of ... a rifle and did not want to be cooped up inside. However, his time away from the battlefields gave Caputo a different outlook on the war. He started to notice that the officers were more concerned over trivial matters rather than strategies. Caputo also describes soldiers showing off the d...

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... and northern was communist. In 1956 an election was going to be used to decide the leader for the whole country but this never happened and the country was split. War began out between the North and the South with communist countries supporting North Vietnam and democratic countries supporting South Vietnam. Communism is a political system which promotes property and resources ... promote the fairest society for everyone as a community. While democracy is used in Australia and means the population is used to elect a government and representatives. Communist forces in The Vietnam War wer...

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... It still affects all the people who grew up in that generation, whether you were a veteran who actually fought or just an ordinary citizen. The war finally ended on April 30, 1973 with a defeated America going home, after the North Vietnamese had taken over the south. The U.S. first got ... the communists take over, the other Asian countries would fall like dominos." At that time he pledged to assist the South Vietnamese government with war. By 1954 there were 342 American military personal there. The mounting communist assault against the south then prompted president John F. Kennedy t...

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... It still affects all the people who grew up in that generation, whether you were a veteran who actually fought or just an ordinary citizen. The war finally ended on April 30, 1973 with a defeated America going home, after the North Vietnamese had taken over the south. The U.S. first got ... the communists take over, the other Asian countries would fall like dominos." At that time he pledged to assist the South Vietnamese government with war. By 1954 there were 342 American military personal there. The mounting communist assault against the south then prompted president John F. Kennedy t...

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... troops sent by South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. August of 1968 was without a doubt the bloodiest and most horrific year of the war that the American soldiers had to endure. This was the year of the Tet Offensive, which had started in January of that year with ... of pacification, and brought to the forefront American outcries for peace. With all that in mind, the American government had to re-think where this war was taking us. In previous years both sides had made several attempts to explore a basis on which to negotiate a peace settlement. Following the year ... on Soc. 001/ru...

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... to have sex with them for 15 dollars. One of the most similar things in both the novel and the movie would be the women in the war. Private Joker and his platoon are on the battlefield right in the middle of the city were they were attack by a sniper. The sniper killed ... shot and killed. Kien was the only one who survived. The author and producer in both the novel and the movie also show many hardships during the Vietnam War. The soldiers had a hard time living in Vietnam because the country's economy is poor. There are also many differences between the novel and the movie. ... that h...

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... anger, patriotism and tactics. They fought using Guerrilla techniques and gave them major advantage to the Vietminh. The US was not actually into the war they were just supplying the French. The French primarily fought to preserve their empire disagreed in the reason why America got involved. The USA were ... fighting against communism and not as war between colonialists and Nationalists. The USA were fighting for the wrong reasons. The year 1954 was a major turning point, which brought about the ... fought the Vietminh navy. On the 11th of February 1965 President Johnson made it clear...

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... the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Unknown to the Vietminh Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin had already decided what would happen to post-war Vietnam at a summit-meeting at Potsdam. They had agreed that the country would be divided into two, the northern half under the control ... North Vietnam. The French, however, had a firm hold on the south. When it became clear that France was becoming involved in a long-drawn out war, the French government tried to negotiate a deal with the Vietminh. They offered to help set-up a national government and promised they woul...

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... shocked at the out come of this war becuse they lost more men in this war than any other war they been in. During the war the American people were split in half. If they were for the war they were called the war hawks and if they were against the war they were called doves. The U.S. went into this war very confident thinking they could use their ... warfare tatics and they were fighting in thick jungle areas. The Vietnamese did not wear uniforms and there was no clear battlefront. This changed the U.S. attitude about rushing into war and thinking that there new technology would let them...

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... because to my mind it coincides with the author's position concerning this question. Let's remember Fowler's trip to Phat Diem - the town where war actions directly took place. Fowler had known Phat Diem well before the attack: it had been the most living town in all the country, and ... with her straw peasant hat with a kind of modesty) and two boys in a watchtower, where Fowler and Pyle stayed for a while. "One shouldn't fight war with children," - said Fowler. After the explosion at the square he wondered how many dead colonels could justify a child's or a trishaw driver's death. He ....

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... realist. Cross also becomes a stricter commander, a "stickler" for order. Lavender's death causes Cross, like his other soldiers, to realize the harsh truth of the war. Previously these men partake in whatever duty they have to perform with a sense of detachment. They have no drive or passion. They have no sense of why they ... are even in this war; this is not their war to fight. Regardless, soldiers are trained to battle, and that is what they do. Kiawa's thoughts reveal that "the emotion wasn't there and ... nothing won or lost." Death is not on their minds; death is not going to hap...

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... 1965, President Johnson sent the first American combat troops to South Vietnam, and at that point, it became an American War. When the first American troops went to war in Vietnam, Americans went to war at home. Hawks, people in support of the war, believe that our support of non-Communist South Vietnam was necessary to prevent the expansion of Communisim in Southeast Asia ... North Vietnam took over South Vietnam and other southeast Asian countries, they would "all fall over like dominoes" with communism. Opponenets of the war, Doves, steadily protested. They thought the United States ...

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... to supply the French with weapons, so that they would be able to defeat the Viet Cong rebellion. This was America's first step into the war and once they got involved, it was hard to get out. On August 2, 1964, the North Vietnamese attacked two US Destroyers and the Americans ... retaliated by air attacks. This event lead them one more step deeper into the war. By the end of 1964, the United States had 23,000 "advisors" in Vietnam. These men and Air Force personnel were being targeted more ... February 7, 1965, the Viet Cong attacked a United States airfield. By this time, France was c...

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... by sending 30 military advisers to Vietnam, their arrival in South Vietnam between July and August 1962 was the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. The main reason for Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War was to bring to an end to communism. Communism, also known as the Red Menace is a political and economic theory in which a country's wealth and ... resources are owned by everyone. Australia and other Western countries feared communism as communists often gained power by force. After World War II most of Eastern Europe was communist and China was also communi...

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... and the worst of times. There is no better example of the confusion and unrest that took place during this decade than the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was an everyday issue during sixties, and affected the lives of most Americans. Unfortunately Vietnam has historically been under attack or control from ... outside countries, and such was the case at the end of World War 2, when the French refused to leave. However, the people would not stand for this, and the Vietminh, led by Ho Chi Mon, declared themselves ... upon arial inspection there were no boats in the water. Back home President ...

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... have to put our trust in "great and powerful friends" Vietnam had been a French colony since 1858, but when they were driven out during World War II, Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh, a nationalist group with communist ideals formed a government in Hanoi, situated in the northern region of Vietnam. The ... French were unwilling to relinquish their colony, and so they went to war with the Vietminh forces that were supported by communist China. When the French were crushed at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, they were forced ... presented the communists in the north with an ideal opportunity to seize co...

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