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Near the end of 18th and 19th centuries the british had their colonies established in the area and ruled the Malay Peninsula till 1948.... It was in 1957 that Malaysia attained the freedom it has today and formed the Federation of malaya.... The country solves its problem of being in a far off place by linking itself to countries, like Singapore, through a causeway while also sharing maritime boundaries with countries like, Philippines and vietnam....
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Nevertheless, the direct firing of two American water vessels in international waters by North Vietnam in the early August 1964 prompted Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized President Johnson to escalate the country's participation in vietnam.... The action, notwithstanding, President Johnson's objective for his country's participation in vietnam was not driven by the quest to win the battle, but for the military to stabilize South Vietnam's forces and government control of security situation in the region....
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Name Instructor Course Date The vietnam War: American Involvement The vietnam War remains one of the most humiliating military debacles in the history of the United States.... Its roots go back to the 1850s, when vietnam, Cambodia and Laos made up French Indochina.... hellip; The vietnam War (1954–1975) originated in the nationalist struggle against French colonialism.... This independence movement was led by Ho Chi Minh, who formed the vietnam Revolutionary League (Vietminh)....
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However, it is crucial to determine how much the description of the war influenced the lives of the americans and the whether its representation changed over time.... One of the impacts that the war had on the American culture was on the literary culture of the americans.... In the first few years after the withdrawal of the americans from the war, there were less literary works to represent the attitudes toward the Vietnam War.... It was an innovative method that replaced newspapers and radios, which were the main mode of broadcasting at the time....
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Barnet argues that the United States "managed" rather than "fought" the war in vietnam.... Where both groups agreed on military security as the prime goal in vietnam, they differed on the means to achieve this.... Neither Kennedy and Lodge nor Johnson and Tory ambassador Maxwell Taylor ever identified the major problem Americans faced in vietnam--locating the point at which the South Vietnamese leadership connected to the peasant mass.... This paper "American Internationalists and vietnam" sheds some light on the following question: How best to understand the meaning of the war, the groups who managed, fought and opposed it, and how -- if at all -- to derive lessons from the prolonged ordeal?...
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However, it is possible to find the roots of the conflict in vietnam in the stark social disparities.... Thus, it is likely that something broke down in vietnam for it to have become a playground for superpowers, just as something distinctly rotten is apparent in Islamic societies.... Surely, a people who were the followers of the last guidance from the Creator of the Universe should have been able to demonstrate something to the world instead of espousing loathing, revulsion and an utter backwardness....
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The author concludes that Siam succeeded in diplomatically securing its rule from the European powers – Britain and France by signing a treaty wherein Kelantan, Terengganu besides Kedah and Perlis on the west coast were exchanged through a barter deal of ensuring Siam's sovereignty.... The purpose behind was not to let the European powers succeed in colonizing Siam as they have succeeded in neighboring countries like Burma and Indochina.... nbsp; the british gained extraterritorial rights and Siam also changed some tariffs to suit the british trade....
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Term Paper
the british developed well-planned strategies and tactics to counter these insurgencies.... The Malayan emergency, which was declared by the british colonialists led to confrontation between British-led forces against the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and its ally Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) from June 1948 to 31 July 1960.... The counter-insurgency mechanism by the british and its allies was so successful that they defeated the rebels who were mainly Chinese communists' adherents....
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