Imperial Japan and their subsequent surrender, and the beginnings of a decades long Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union. It was also a year that was instrumental in laying the foundation for what would occur during the French Indochinese and Vietnamese War the foundation of modern Vietnam itself. I will argue that following events in 1945 were the most important in the creation of Vietnam, and in the wars to come: the Japanese overthrowing the French colonial government on March 9, the
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Management skills Mohammad Mossadegh What was the motivation behind US policy with respect to the government-sanctioned overthrow of the democratically-elected government of Iran in 1953? On August 19, 1953, the United States sanctioned its first, peacetime use of covert action to overthrow the constitutional government of a sovereign nation, successfully orchestrating the overthrow of Iran`s popular Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, and restoring the Shah to his throne. The question is — why
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Eisenhower was the first president to go head first into the Vietnam conflicts. Eisenhower did not support the Geneva Accords signed by France and Vietnam in the summer of 1954. The Accord made the 17th parallel dividing the country of Vietnam to north and south section until two years when they would hold a free election for all of the country. Eisenhower and his secretary of state John Foster Dulles believed that the agreement gave the communist too much power in the north. Instead Eisenhower decided
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Nuclear War. The end of human civilization. The threat of such a war hovers over nations today and the consequences of one conflict would be immense. Nuclear weapons have been around for some time now. The first nuclear bomb test happened in New Mexico, July 16, 1945, near the end of World War II. As a result, most people might dismiss the threat saying “It’s safe.” Therefore, in order to better protect the Earth and its inhabitants, nuclear weapons should be banned from warfare. Rising political
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lasted from 23 June 1948 to 12 May 1949. Formally in the end of June 1948 the USSR and the USA were allies, Hitler's winners in the recent war. In fact they had already become the enemies. It was then when the debut Cold War crisis, the first open confrontation between East and West, happened. In general, as a result of the victory over fascism in the World War II in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe a new political situation has been shaping. The liberation of these countries was accompanied by the
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Cut Apart From Submerged Privacy It can very be difficult for a reader to understand a piece of literature if he or she has not undergone the process of research through background info about different aspects of the literary work. Analysis of the piece can always help, but it is not as effective without background information to back it up. Analysis and background information work hand and hand to cut literary pieces apart from their submerged privacy and uncover very important details hidden between
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After then end of World War II, a new conflict arose that was known as the Cold War. During the Cold War, two of the world’s greatest powers, the United States and the Soviet Union battled to show the world who was more advanced in technology. Over the next two decades, they battled to show who was the most technologically advanced within their knowledge of space. The first phase of the Space Race was focused on developing successful rocket and satellite systems into space. In 1955, both the United
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incredible power space-based weapons have and their ability to be anywhere around the planet, presenting incredible force projecting potential and deterrent to conflict. Because of the US’ ability to deploy space assets, it is only natural for them to continue that ability to include the offensive platforms that they have been after since the Cold
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Everyday conflicts ravage the world destroying the way of life for many people. There are terror attack that kill and split families in two. These conflicts change other opinions around the world trying to help these war-torn areas. While today in America many people end up ignoring the issue and instead of helping people they hurt them. Today in America a xenophobic culture has taken the country by storm. More people start to ignore problems and refuse to help. The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
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2}. The containment and Truman doctrine played the role President Roosevelt thought America should remain friendly with the Soviet Union after WW II. This only seemed that the two most powerful nations would at some point have a conflict 3}. That confrontation began during the cold war in the Middle East. You see after WW II ended Soviets began taking over parts of Northern Iran, with plans of bullying the country into letting them into their oil fields 4}. In 1946, American diplomat George Kennan
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