Vietnam War
Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam 1945-1995

In Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam 1945-1995, James S. Olson and andy oberts provide a compact history of the war and its resulting aftermath. The authors work to explain one of the most important and difficult issues in war history - the U.S. And its involvement in the Vietnam War. Throughout the years since the war ended, people have said that it was the wrong war, the wrong time, and the wrong place. That sentiment is accurate in explaining the basic gist of the book, as well. The entire ordeal is explained by the authors, and the historical facts to back it up are provided. Since there is so much confusion that often surrounds talk of the Vietnam War, Olson & oberts (2008) sort out the information and allow the reader to simply see the facts and interpret the meaning…...

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References

Olson, James S. & Roberts, Randy. Where The Domino Fell: America and Vietnam 1945-1995. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. 2008. Print.

Vietnam -- Rules of Engagement
There are many reasons given for the fact that the United States lost the war in Vietnam, and that America was basically pushed out of the country by the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army even though the U.S. had far more firepower. Among the more credible reasons America lost the war was the failure on the part of the political leaders back in ashington to allow soldiers, marines, Air Force pilots and others to take the fight to the enemy. In short, the rules of engagement (ROE) were misguided. The rules of engagement were those authorized by politicians, and not only were they very difficult to follow, they tied the hands of those men fighting the war. This paper reviews the ROE from the perspective of: a) the soldiers on the ground; b) battalion commanders; c) division commanders; d) General illiam estmorland; e) Robert…...

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Works Cited

Birtle, A.J., U.S. Congress, Armed Services Committee, and Center of Military History.

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Dranke, R.J. (1992). The Rules of Defeat: The Impact of Aerial Rules of Engagement on USAF Operations in North Vietnam, 1965-1968. School of Advanced Airpower Studies.

To that end, the northern Vietnamese forces and the Viet Cong in the south were looking to actually unify with the southern portion of this country -- which is evinced by the fact that shortly after the end of the war Vietnam was indeed united once again. Although this conception of the significance of the war is primarily political in nature, U.S. military forces could have used a more savvy understanding of the culture of the Vietnamese and their viewpoint of this martial conflict to its advantage, which perhaps could have shortened this encounter that was both lengthy and costly to virtually all of its participants.
Even the involvement of the Marines, which was initially sent to Vietnam to protect the Air Force which was conducting aerial raids, could have been utilized more effectively. This occasion was one of the few in which this military branch (or virtually any in…...

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Bibliography

Courtwright, David T. (2005). Sky as frontier: adventure, aviation, and empire. College Station: Texas a&M University Press.

Herring, George C. (1971). The Pentagon Papers. Boston: Beacon Press.  http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon2/pent4.htm 

Prados John. (2003). "JFK and the Diem Coup." The National Security Archive.  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/index.htm

South Vietnam, it believed, could be a base for the desired ability to mount military and economic operations throughout the globe and regardless of the insidious presence of communist influence, a premise which stood in direct contrast to Ho Chi Minh's dream.
Indeed, as an official policy, leaders in ashington considered that the fall of South Vietnam to communism would be a pathway to the prevalence of communism in other venues, such as Cambodia, Laos and even France, where the ideological movement was very robust amongst student movements. As stated a U.S. Department of State representative during the period in between the first and second Indochina wars, "the recognition by the Kremlin of Ho Chi Minh's communist movement in Indochina comes as a surprise. The Soviet acknowledgment of this movement should remove any illusions as to the 'nationalist' nature of Ho Chi Minh's aims and reveals Ho in his true…...

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Allen, D. & Long, N.V. (1991). Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States, and the War. Westview Press.

Cady, J.F. (1954). The Roots of French Imperialism in Eastern Asia. Cornell University Press.

Joes, a.J. (2001). The War for South Viet Nam, 1954-1975. Praeger.

Karnow, S. (1997). Vietnam: A History. Penguin.

S. mission in Vietnam. Whenever he had the chance, he restated the nation's moral commitment. His morally-grounded idealistic rhetoric gained him definite advantages. His arguments made him sound tough and pleased those with an equally hard-line position against communism in Southeast Asia. He could also use these arguments to justify and support his policies, such as when Congress threatened to reduce foreign aid. He insisted that foreign aid was an all-or-nothing proposition because principles were at stake. He pressed that Congress could provide all the aid he believed should be given or Congress must assume the responsibility and culpability in the event of a victory of Communism and the defeat of freedom in those nations at risk. He maintained that representatives and senators must make policy decision in the light of the larger moral consequences to which these policies would inevitably lead. At the Economic Club of New York in…...

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Bibliography

Bostdorff, Denise and, Steven. Idealism and Pragmatism in American Foreign Policy.New York: Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol 24 Issue 3, 1994

Eisenhower, Dwight. The Importance to the United States of the Security and Progress of Viet-Nam. Address at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 1967.  http://mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/eisen.htm 

Rotter, Andrew J. The Causes of the Vietnam War. The Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. http://www.english.uuc.edu/maps/vietnam/causes.htm

Smitha, Frank E. The United States and Vietnam. Macrohistory, 2005.  http://www.smitha.com/h2/ch26.htm

Minorities tended to live in more impoverished and less urban areas. The Hoa and ethnic Chinese were the exception to the rule however, typically living in more urban areas, and isolated from mainstream Vietnamese culture for some time. However, despite these seemingly unsolvable problems, there is ample evidence suggesting the government has continuously worked to help end discrimination and support a unified front. In recent years policies have been developed in an effort to restore relationships with the formerly isolated Hoa and Chinese; this has resulted in a better economy in Vietnam, suggesting ethnic minorities may realize a better quality of life in the coming years.

In an earlier observation of Vietnam, Mackerras (2003) suggests that discord in the country resulted in part because of the government's lack of realization as to the poor quality of life endured by many ethnic minorities especially those living in the highlands. Schrock, et al.,…...

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Banister, Judith. 1992. Vietnam Population Dynamics and Prospects. Washington, D.C.,

U.S. Bureau of the Census, Center for International Researcher, CIR Staff Paper, 65.

Keyes, Charles. 2002, Nov. Presidential Address: The People's of Asia - Science and Politics in the Classification of Ethnic Groups in Thailand, China and Vietnam. The Journal of Asian Studies, 61(4): pp. 1163-1203.

Mackerras, Colin. 2005. Study Guide, PAC32: Ethnic Questions in East and Southeast

Given the prevailing view today, though, that the war was an error and achieved nothing except to destroy a lot of lives on both sides, Lind's belief that his view will one day prevail seems disingenuous at best. The biases of the time are not as strong today as they were 30 years ago, and yet no real change in how the war is viewed has taken place. The idea that Vietnam was a morass into which the United States should not have ventured is strongly held by millions of Americans today, and the idea is reinforced through repetition so that it seems unlikely that one or two generations more will make that much difference. Many of the people repeating this idea today do not really remember the Vietnam War at all except as a history lesson, and the lesson is not being given as Lind predicts it will.
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Vietnam
As has been apparent all semester, Vietnam had a profound and individualized effect on vast numbers of people. hen you consider the stories we have read do you think these are purely the result of people living through a war, or are there distinctive features of the Vietnam ar that shaped their experience?

Dang Thuy Tram's diary Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, offered a view from the opposing side of the Vietnam ar that Americans have almost never heard, either during or after the war. Originally from Hanoi, from 1968-70 she worked as a surgeon in South Vietnam where she died in combat with American forces. Military intelligence officers captured her diary and ordered it burned, but Frederic hitehurst disobeyed this order and kept for 35 years, finally arranging to return it to Tram's family in 2005. Naturally, the Vietnamese government made use of the story of a young heroine…...

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WORKS CITED

Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War. Henry Holt and Company, 1977, 1996.

Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. Penguin Books, 2002.

Emerson, Gloria. Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War. W.W. Norton and Company, 1976, 1992.

Tram, Dang Thoy. Last Night AI Dreamed of Peace. Three Rivers Press, 2007.

It is most likely that we can conclude that the Vietnamese currency was more or less unaffected by the sending money trend.
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On the Internet at http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxhistory.Last retrieved on December 6, 2006

Pham Duc Trung et co. Regulation of Interest Rate by the State ank of…...

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The Vietnam Syndrome also made the public suspicious of the government, distrusting official government pronouncements. Many Democratic politicians also questioned the necessity of fighting Communism all over the world and in its all manifestations.
The syndrome also manifested itself during the eagan Administration when it became harder for the eagan government to support anti-Communist guerilla forces in El Salvador and Nicaragua. The government could not convince the public of the necessity to send U.S. troops to either of the countries, and because of the public and congressional constraints placed upon the government activities, the eagan Administration was involved in the Iran-Contra affair to finance the Nicaraguan anti-Communist rebels. The Vietnam Syndrome continued to influence America during the first Persian Gulf War. The U.S. military used overwhelming force against the forces of Iraq, relying heavily on air power, to secure an easy and quick victory, with minimal losses to American lives.…...

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References

Sitkoff, H. (1999) The postwar impact of the Vietnam in Chambers II, J.W. The Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 15 December 2011 from  http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/postwar.htm

Vietnam
Lessons learned from the American experience of the Vietnam War.

Vietnam has been called America's first and only completely 'lost' war, even though it was never officially declared to be a war at all. The clumsy diplomatic relations which characterized American involvement in Vietnam from the beginning were a harbinger of troubles to come. The roots of the conflict can be traced to the aftermath of World War II, when French-backed forces seized control of Vietnam in the South while Ho Chi Minh's Viet Cong seized the North. Even after the French were driven out, the U.S. thought it could successfully bolster the fanatically anti-communist Catholic leader Ngo Dinh Diem, despite Diem's lack of popularity amongst his own people and the taint of colonialism that all European powers harbored in the eyes of the Vietnamese. "In December 1960, Diem's opponents within South Vietnam -- both communist and non-communist -- formed the…...

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References

Moss, G.D. (2010). Vietnam: An American ordeal. (6th Ed.)

Vietnam War. (2012). History.com. Retrieved:

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Vietnam
Moral and Ethical Issues

Clearly technological development, especially in terms of IT, has significantly impacted social and family life within Vietnam. In terms of family life, the structure and view of the family as a unit has changed in several ways. In terms of society, the globalization as a result of IT development has significantly impacted on Vietnamese philosophy and ethics.

Globalization and Social Pressure

According to Duiker (119) the dominant philosophy of Confucianism resulted in an increased rigidity within the social and family structure. The preceding philosophy of uddhism on the other hand emphasized the individual to such an extent that women for example had many of the rights enjoyed by men. Confucianism had the opposite effect, and women were severely oppressed under its prevalence.

The development of telecommunications however resulted in an increase of global business and contacts. The relative isolation in which Vietnam conducted its business and social matters was broken…...

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Business Asia. "Vietnam must embrace IT, says Wolfensohn." March 3, 2000. First Charlton Communications Pty Ltd. Database: www.findarticles.com.

Duiker, William J. Vietnam: Nation in Revolution. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983.

Ramsay, Randolf. "Vietnam ideal for "leaf of faith" - Country Focus." In Business Asia, July, 2003. First Charlton Communications Pty Ltd., 2003. Database: www.findarticles.com

Stevens, Robert Warren. Vain Hopes, Grim Realities: The Economic Consequences of the Vietnam War. New York: New Viewpoints, 1976.

Cultural Social Contexts:

Something that would become all to apparent as the ar in Vietnam wore on, and that should perhaps be more immediately evident to us in reflection, would be the pointed cultural pride and identity that distinguished the people of Vietnam. In all aspects of the Cold ar, there was a clearly stated imperative on the part of both the United States and the Soviet Union to impose certain cultural norms upon those nations over which they fought. For each, the channel of popular governance would be seen as a way to infuse such developing nations as Vietnam with inherently American or Soviet features. But a reflect on the history of Vietnam and its people would demonstrate this to be a culture poorly suited to this imposition.

So denotes the text by Moss, which reports on its history of violent opposition to foreign occupation. This would be true even where…...

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Works Cited:

Moss, G.D. (2005). Vietnam: An American Ordeal. Prentice Hall.

Vietnam
Diplomatic Negotiation:

Since the end of orld ar II, the United States and some of the other western countries were agreed that Communism was the greatest scourge and danger to the free world that was currently in existence. Following the creation of the Truman Doctrine and the heightened fear of Communism in the 1950s and early 1960s, the United States made it clear that they would do whatever was necessary to prevent the spread of Communism. The Domino Theory was one wherein the people believed that if Asia fell into Communism, then the rest of the world could potentially fall to it as well. France was the colonial ruler of Vietnam and had a continued presence in that country well into the twentieth century. Negotiations between various leaders established the creation of North and South Vietnam in the hopes that the Communist Vietcong would remain satisfied with dominion in the North,…...

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Works Cited:

Moss, George (2009). Vietnam: An American Ordeal. Prentice Hall.

Although Diem initially appeared to assist the esterners in their efforts to install democracy in the country he proved to be corrupt, being more interested in his own well-being and in his financial situation than in conditions in the country.
The Vietnamese were determined to support theories relating to personal leadership because they could no longer accept being controlled by the French, the Japanese, or by the Americans. It was not necessarily a matter of who provided the most for the country at the time, but of who granted it independence. Because of the support it received from communist states in declaring its independence and because estern powers were against Vietnam's independence, the Vietnamese were sympathetic toward Ho Chi Minh.

hereas the Vietnamese simply considered Ho Chi Minh and Ngo Dinh Diem to be individuals assisting them in their struggle to achieve independence, the Americans saw presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John…...

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Works cited:

1. Moss, G. (2009). "Vietnam: An American Ordeal (6th Edition)." Prentice Hall.

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One of the more shameful moments in American history was the establishment of internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.  Ostensibly started because the United States was at war with Japan, it is interesting to note that there were no similar internment camps for people of Italian or German descent, despite the fact that Italy and Germany were also part of the Axis powers that fought against the Allies in World War II. 

Prior to World War II, Japanese began immigrating to America for work opportunities.  They initially immigrated to Hawaii, which was annexed by the United....

Certainly! Here are some essay topics that cover East Asia modernity and women's roles:

1. The impact of modernization on women's roles in East Asian societies: a comparative analysis of Japan, China, and South Korea.
2. Gender equality and empowerment of women in East Asia: challenges and opportunities in the 21st century.
3. The role of women in shaping modern East Asian economies: a case study of female entrepreneurship in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
4. Traditional vs. modern gender roles in East Asian cultures: exploring the evolution of women's status in Confucian societies.
5. The portrayal of modern East Asian women in media and popular....