Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War was the longest war in Australia’s history. From the time Australia arrived at Vietnam in 1962 almost 60 000 Australians served in the war. 521 had died from the war and over 3000 were wounded. The war was the greatest social and political dispute since the referendums of World War 1. During the war it started to show that the attitudes towards the Vietnam War started to change in Australia. Propaganda started to spread in Australia about being part of
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Muhammad Ali had refuse to be drafted to fight in the war transcended the boxing ring‚which he had dominated. On March 9‚ 1966‚ at the height of the war‚ Ali’s draft status had revised to make him eligible to fight in the Vietnam war.Ali was Muslim and had cited religious reasons for his decisions to forgo military service.On April 28‚1967 the United States had went to war with Vietnam.On June 20‚1967‚ Ali was convicted of draft evasion and was sentenced to five years in prison and was fined $10
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The Vietnam War last from 1964-1975 for America and was it longest war. Throughout those eleven years many stories and letters were written and many more would come long after the wars end. While officially the conflict was considered to be a police action‚ many consider it be just rough and brutal as any other war fought in modern history. The majority of soldiers who did return home came back to an America far different than the one they left behind and were subject to the hatred of anti-war protestors
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public distaste for the Vietnam War had a huge effect on the cold War and Proxy war. Richard Nixon was elected President after promising that he end the war honorably and get our troops home. The Vietnam War left a lasting effect on how proxy wars are conducted today. The US is today more likely to just provide aid and assistance rather than sending in ground forces as proxies (Trueman‚ 2017). The reluctance of the US to send ground troops to Syria during its civil war is proof that the US has
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military victory in Vietnam was no longer possible. He wanted to end the war as quickly and as soon as possible. He wrote that‚ “without continuous and massive aid from either or both of the Communist giants‚ the leaders of North Vietnam would not have been able to carry on the war for more than a few months.” He planned to conduct a two prong agenda to end the war; first by changing the relationships between the DRV‚ USSR‚ and China and second‚ by a massive expansion of the war to force the DRV into
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“Explain why an Anti-Vietnam War Movement developed in the USA" The Anti-Vietnam war movement was one of the largest and most famous anti-war movements that have existed. An anti-war movement is a social movement that is opposed to the continuation of an armed conflict‚ with or without just cause. The Vietnam War movement developed for several reasons‚ and with the aim of getting the US military out of Vietnam. The factor that had the most impact on the development of the Anti-Vietnam War movement was the
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Conflict in Vietnam‚ 1963-75 Revision Notes This topic is in Paper 2‚ the source-based exam – along with World War One. There is no choice of question. The paper tests your source skills‚ but you must have a good knowledge of the topic as well - and be able to use this both in your answers and in order to understand the sources properly. Read the advice on the front of your WW1 revision pack for tips on how to answer the exam questions. Part 1; Reasons for the US involvement in
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Sturgill/Balmeo Vietnam Essay 2 March 2014 America’s Tab on Vietnam Technological advancements and it ’s new and heavy artillery in modern warfare have been racking up debt and upping the cost of war with the world ’s most valuable currency: real human lives. The draft after World War Two forced American boys to pack up their bags and go off to war because it was their only choice- besides running away to Canada or Mexico to avoid it. Because some made it out‚ the effects of war lingered and
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HISTORY ASSESSMENT In the early 1960’s John.F.Kennedy pledges financial and military aid to South Vietnam who were struggling. As a political unrest grew‚ the support from a war in North Vietnam grew and in 1963 John.F.Kennedy was assassinated. President Johnson felt that‚ to keep in with the US foreign policy of containment‚ he would have to send a vast amount of young troops into Vietnam to help fight the rising influence of the Viet Cong. For over 10 years‚ the Us pledged thousands of soldiers
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domestic policies such as health care programs but he created a credibility gap. One of the foreign Policy was the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a conflict between North and South Vietnam in which the North was led by a Communist and nationalist regime that fought against the Japanese in World War II and against French colonial rule in the 1940s. In 1954‚ the north won control of North Vietnam when the French agreed to a partition in the Geneva Accords. The South was led by a non-Communist regime and
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