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    The Vietnamese history according to Jonathan Neale, have a long time battle of invasion and colonization by foreigners. Vietnam is a united nation who’s willing to fight and protect their lands and freedom from their enemy with bloods and souls. Before the Vietnam War begins, Vietnam is of one French’s colony in Southeast Asian along with Laos and Cambodia in the late 1800’s, which collectively called the Indo-China. When the French took over Vietnam, they started to change the Vietnamese’s economy

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    The war of 1812 was significant to American history because it brought about a new sense of American pride and patriotism. After the war in accordance to the newly founded boost of pride and nationalism in the American people. The war also helped bring influential people together to create laws that filled the gaps in the structure of our political system. This war also showed that America will defend their beliefs against other nations which attempt to threaten their ways. The war was a draw because

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    After World War II, tensions between two major military forces in the world, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, had not diminished. This period of strong political posturing and open disagreement is known in history as the Cold War. The term “cold” is used to denote that there were no direct and large-scale battles between the two forces, despite being heavily armed with nuclear weaponry and prepared for the worst. However, a few regional wars, aided by both sides, were actually fought. The Cold

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    of American history was analyzed. The Cold War is rampant with American foreign policy and influential in shaping the modern world. Strategies of Containment outlines American policy from the end of World War II until present day. Gaddis outlines the policies of presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, including policies influenced by others such as George Kennan, John Dulles, and Henry Kissinger. The author, John Lewis Gaddis has written many books on the Cold War and is an avid

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    History of Air Assault The purpose behind my topic is to simply show a little insight to the beginnings and processes of how air assault operations came about. The importance aviation played from Korea through Vietnam and onto the complex battlefield that is being fought today. Throughout history we have seen what using aviation and specifically utility based aircraft in a role of something more deliberate such as aerial reconnaissance, troop transport, medevac and logistical missions can do for

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    What were the key effects of the Spanish Civil War? Spanish Civil War was war which lasted from 1936 to 1939. For the Spanish it was “total” war, because whole available arms, weapons, economy and other sectors of country were included in this war. But the Spanish Civil War was “limited” war for foreign powers, since they hadn’t been directly included into the conflict. In this war the new technology was very significant, especially dominance of the airpower. Control of the sea was

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    World War 2 World War 2 was the war that involved every part of the world during the years 1939-1945.The World War 2 was the greatest war in history that made about 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths. The main power was German, Italy and Japan, France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and China. Along with World War 1, World War 2 was one of the greatest war in history and it will never be forgotten, it resulted

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    American History since Civil War Name Professor Institution Course Date American History since Civil War Identify at least two (2) major historical turning points in the period under discussion. There are several historical turning points in the History of the United States of America since the aspect of the civil war. One of the essential historical turning points is the end of the cold war in 1989 thus falling of the Berlin war. Another historical turning point is the aspect of the digital

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    Many people know about the French and Indian War. We learn about it in school, we read about it, we watch movies about it. But what was it really? Why did it start? What was its impact on the people involved? The French and Indian War was a war between France and England over America. The Indians sided with the French owing to the fact that they were scared the English would take over more land. The French and the English both owned land in North America but there were no clear boundaries. Both

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    Pre-World War II History

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    eliminating all inferior races starting with the Jews. In the midst of this action, the United States attempted to prevent any association with the ongoing war. However, as Hitler rose to power and Nazi Germany became an enormous threat to the globe, the United States repealed its Neutrality Acts and slowly shed its isolationist beliefs, thus entering World War II

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