Essays on Perspectives on the Cold War, Decolonization and the Vietnam War

“Patriarchal vandalism: militaries and the environment”, IN “Dangerous intersections: feminist perspectives on population, environment, and development.... The first Gulf war produced an unprecedented scale of damage.... According to the paper, war or Military Conflict, during the intense deliberations that went on in the U.... Congress before the onset of the Gulf war, two important aspects were notably missing.... There was no discussion at all about women and the war, although women formed a considerable part of the U....

World war II .... s 18 April World war II .... It is not the matter of who wins or loses the war because despite the fact, every nation gets affected by its negativity in one way or the other.... Our world history has detailed accounts of many important wars which has changed the world map accordingly but two wars have always considered as of having greater affect globally and much violent that any other war.... This essay compiles the details about World war II....

The paper "The American Civil war: Slavery Was Not the Only Issue" states that generally speaking, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 perpetuated the issue of slavery and continued to expand the slave-holding territory.... The American Civil war: Slavery Was Not The Only Issue The American Civil war is the most studied, debated, and analyzed event in US History.... However, by 1860 events and policies enacted since the nations birth had moved the US to the brink of civil war....

The first part deals with the background of the conflict describing the causes of the civil war in several contexts like political, economic and social scenario.... This paper analyzes the driving forces behind the extension of the war along with the analysis of the main actors acting as the chief influence machine coupled with their aim, interests, capacities and different types of relation at different points of time.... Running Head: LIBYAN CIVIL war Libyan Civil war The paper is disintegrated into two main parts....

In different ways, after the World War II, the vietnam war which came after United States went for a peace keeping mission created and brought out political awareness to the new generation of young Americans who were sent to the mission and those families who saw their beloved ones sent to the war.... During the end of vietnam war there was emergence of environmentalism movement which was created to provide awareness on how to protect the environment, some of the pollutants were completely scraped and banned from operation (Barret, 1998)....

However, this concept is best when dealing with the super powers like the US on their own terms, observing the world from their angle and focusing on the crises and conflicts that occupied the attention of their security analysts and diplomats during the cold war (Limbered 4).... The "Iraq war and International Relations" paper compares liberalism and realism with the Iraq war and the war's significance.... Iraq war and International Relations The Iraqi politics and its international relations over time have become significantly influenced by the war in Iraq; these are in terms of internal displacement and also international migration....

The paper "North Korea: Endgame of the cold war" states that America has to rely on only sanctions or diplomacy to make North Korea comply with some of its demands since the use of force will not be welcomed by the neighboring nations such as South Korea, Japan, and China.... This situation is among the major effects that the end of the cold war has brought forth to this nation....

From 1756 to 1763, the Seven Years' war pitted nearly all of the major European powers of its time against each other.... Prussia, led by Frederick II, Electorate Brunswick-Luneburg, and Britain faced off with France, Austria, Russia, Saxony, and For some historians, the Seven Years' war is seen as an extension of the war of Austrian Succession.... According Schultz, while the causes of the Seven Years' war were European in nature3, across the globe, France and England competed for commercial and colonial supremacy....

Operations Management: Critical perspectives on Business and Management.... After isolation upon ending the Vietnamese war in 1975, this country resolved to integrate its economic policies with those of the western countries whereby in 2000, it was one of the highest economic growing countries in the world (Stevenson, 2003:18).... This essay "Outsourcing to vietnam: Operations Management" presents vietnam as a vibrant business destination center for outsourcing in the department of operations management....

THE A TO Z OF the vietnam war.... The media's failure to report all aspects of the conflict to the public during the vietnam Era clearly shows its inadequacy which is unacceptable for the so-called “fourth branch of government.... This research paper "The Media's Role in Vietnam" highlights the close-knit relationship between the media and military turned adversarial which affected public opinion and ultimately brought an end to the war.... The debate continues on whether accurate history has recorded the war according to fact....

Prohibition and the war on Drugs: A Discussion of Failed Policies and Key Similarities between These Two One ofthe aspects of current drug policy that continues to provide tension and a level of debate is why certain drugs, such as alcohol are allowed to be produced and consumed within the purview of government regulation whereas other drugs, such as marijuana and other illegal street drugs, are completely and entirely outlawed by the federal government.... Within such an understanding, the similarities between the way in which the government, prompted by temperance movement activists throughout the nation, outlawed the production and/or consumption of alcoholic beverages within the United States is eerily similar to the way in which the ATF, FBI, and a litany of other federal and local law enforcement entities have worked in tandem since the declared war on Drugs to rid the United States of illegal substances....

the vietnam war is usually regarded as one of the most significant battles of the twentieth century.... the vietnam war is usually regarded as one of the most significant battles of the twentieth century.... Involvement in the vietnam war Initially, the United States did not take sides on the war in Vietnam.... The Economic Consequences of the vietnam war, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991, Print, table 1.... Reasons why the Effects of the vietnam war have been Severe on the United States The economic effects of the vietnam war on the United States have been severe as a result of three major factors....

As the report declares the Combined Action Program was a strategic military formation that was first devised to address a particular problem during the vietnam war.... he Combined Action Program was a strategic military formation that was first devised to address a particular problem during the vietnam war.... There are skeptics though, who argue that the final outcome of the vietnam war would not have changed even if CAP was implemented on a larger scale....

Goertzel states that there have been two main intervals of military upsurge during the last thirty years - the vietnam war and the Reagan years.... The pentagon Papers indicated that Lyndon Johnson initiated the vietnam because of his political and ideological reasons and not because of the militaries urge.... There were serious warnings about the existence of the World war III in the 1950s, as the world adjusted to the introduction of the nuclear weapons....

"Female Nazi war Criminals" paper states that the actual roles and contributions of the Nazi women in the overall construction of the brutal state system of the Reich were never truly revealed.... Female Nazi war Criminals Female Nazi war Criminals The holocaust that was inflicted upon European Jews by the Nazi administration was the most sadistic and systematic project of mass genocide that had ever mounted.... ost of the staff members and workers from the Nazi concentration bases were arrested and later on, they were tried for conducting acts of brutality and mass murdering against the prisoners and slaves after the end of World war II....

In the paper 'Moral Equivalent of war' the author discusses the need for a moral equivalent of war, which is due to the fact that war is irrational.... The author states that nations live in fear hence are always preparing for war so for the military 'peace' and 'war' are synonymous with the latter being just a 'verification of mastery gained during the peace period' and the absence of war would lead to degeneration of life....

The following paper examines the war Scrolls or the 1QM scrolls found amongst the Qumran Scrolls which relates to warfare in Ancient Israel.... The war Scrolls, 1QM is made up of 19 columns.... ntroduction This paper examines the war Scrolls or the 1QM scrolls found amongst the Qumran Scrolls which relates to warfare in Ancient Israel.... Section A History The war Scrolls were discovered with the other Qumran Scrolls (Peerbolt, 2003, 259)....

However, since the end of the cold war, the use of sanctions as a tool for statecraft has seen a dramatic increase as developed nations have tried to avoid costly military confrontations.... Sanctions have become an increasingly important tool in the art of statecraft since the end of the cold war.... The research paper "Are Sanctions a Humane Solution to End a war" concentrates on how sanctions have been in use since time immemorial for shaping interstate relations between nations and to coerce weaker nations into submission....

The resulting volume presents an interdisciplinary look at how power and forms of cultural representation interacted in the context of Austrian-American relations during the cold war.... In the essay 'From World war to Waldheim' the author discusses a small state in the Shadow of a Superpower: Austria and the United States since 1945.... The author states that they asked participants to revise and expand their conference papers with these perspectives in mind....

The paper "History of the Korean War" tells that There were so many states involved and the war itself could be linked to the power struggles of World War II and the cold war.... There wereso many states involved and the war itself could be linked to the power struggles of World War II and the cold war.... Mao's China and the cold war.... Absorbing the first blow: Truman and the cold war.... hus, despite historical complexities and the overlapping motives of the leaders involved, this essay attempts to enumerate the factors responsible for the outbreak of the Korean War, in the hopes of introducing a different set of perspectives on the Korea of the past as well as of the present....

It was officially declared as civil war by the International Red Cross at the end of 2012.... The war has led to hundred thousands of causalities in such a short time period.... Refugees camps have sprung up around the boundaries of Syrian Civil war [The of the will appear here] [The of the will appear here] The Syrian Civil war began unofficially in March 2011 when the public began protests against the Assad regime with Bashar al-Assad as the President....

The paper "Key Features of Apartheid, How the cold war Affected Africa" states that the united nation came to provide the desired financial aid to the African countries.... ow the cold war affected Africa ... Before the cold war, most African countries received large economic aides from super powers.... However, these aides decreased after the cold war.... Africa lost the political luster that it had after the cold war....

The paper "The war of 1812" highlights that it is quite essential to highlight that the war of 1812 was a war that was fought chiefly between the government of the United States of America and the British empire (Chiefly British North America/Canada).... The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical discussion of the war of 1812.... The format that will be utilized for this paper is to provide a short background on the actual conflict followed by a critical discussion of the reasons for the United States Declaration of war....

From the paper "The Mexican-American war" it is clear that a general review of the Mexican-American war points to the fact that innocent people died during the incident.... The review of the war also discussion essential reasons for the occurrence of the events.... The Mexican-American war The Mexican-American war A historical international case engaged two s that included Mexican-American.... The war resulted in Mexico losing to America....

The essay "North Korean Foreign Policy after the cold war" focuses on the critical analysis of the extent to which North Korean foreign policy became less isolationist since the cold war.... To What Extent Has North Korean Foreign Policy Became Less Isolationist since the cold war?... Consequently, the cold war had been less stingy to North Korea.... onsidering of North Korea's status and weighing of the country's incurred and potential foreign policy costs and benefits were signaled by the end of the cold war (Turku, 2009, p....

The essay "war in Darfur" focuses on the critical analysis of the major reasons and effects of the war in Darfur.... war in Darfur Although the horrors f the Darfur conflict do not quite compare to those f the Nazi Concentration Camps, the world is observing the current situation the same way it observed what happened decades ago during the second World war; with their eyes closed.... What made this fighting erupt into all-out war was the water shortage the country faced. ...

This paper ''Race Baiting and Imagery in the Pacific war'' tells us that it has been said that in war the victor gets to write the history.... It is certainly true that the United States, with its overawing cultural and communications industries, shaped the prevailing post-war views of World war II.... That image largely concerns the war in Europe.... Manufacturing Hatred: Race-Baiting and Imagery in the Pacific war It has been said that in war the victor gets towrite the history....

The essay "The American Civil war" focuses on the critical analysis of the major issues in the American civil war.... The American Civil war Grade 6 Dec 2008 Introduction The American civil war was fought primarily between the Northern and southern states of the United States of America.... he Civil war ... Central to the civil war was the very thorny question of slavery.... The eventual cessation of the southern states thus marked the beginning of the war that would later unfold....

Moreover, if the grounds for the war are ambiguous and hence soldiers do not comprehend it or acquire a sense of purpose or mission, as was in the vietnam war, the toll on the human spirit is even greater.... The author of the "war from a Literary Concept" paper states that the gathered literature in this research has shown that the horrors of war directly affect humanity in different ways, from those who are doing the fighting to the civilized population left behind....

The military action of the United States against the authoritarian regime of Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq, is termed as the US – Iraq war of 2003.... Bush explained that the aims of this war were to "disarm Iraq [and] to free its people.... The United States' formal reason for the war was that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction which constitutes The United States made no attempt to get a U.... he Gulf war forced Iraq to toe the US line, which was to make Iraq to end its military occupation of Kuwait....

The Cold War: A New History is an important book on the cold war in which John Lewis Gaddis maintains that the Cold War is historically significant not only for what happened but also for what did not happen.... Therefore, The Cold War: A New History is an important book on the cold war in which John Lewis Gaddis maintains that the Cold War is historically significant not only for what happened but also for what did not happen.... It is definitely a fundamental book on the cold war which is historically significant not only for what happened but also for what did not happen....

PARALLELS BETWEEN COLD WAR ANTI-COMMUNISM AND CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ABOUT TERRORISM AND BORDER PROTECTION The end of the cold war heralded the beginning of a new possibility of a new world order.... Some of the historical questions that the paper aims to solve include the role that the cold war played in shaping a domineering American empire.... There is also an attempt to analyze how the nature of this empire was affected by the end of the cold war....

The author of this article "Coke and Pepsi war" comments on the commercial war between two brands.... Both the companies have been at war since their inception.... The problem statement that has been discussed in the case study relates to Pepsi and Coke's long-term future and the war between the two companies....

Although this plan was seemingly successful after the two atomic bombs were dropped, it was apparent that poor planning made it the first move in the trend towards the cold war.... war is arguably The Second World one of the bloodiest events that have been witnessed in history.... Taking a span of more than five years, the genesis of the war in 1939 was attributed to the Germans attack on Poland, which sparked war realignments that escalated the issues that marred the major world powers at the time....

Whether the Iraqi war was justified or not remains a rather controversial public issue that has caused heated debates at the national as well as the international arena.... In fact, there are those of the opinion that the Iraqi war begun long before March 2003.... 2003 war in Iraq – Just or Unjust war [Name of Student Introduction Whether the Iraqi war was justified or not remains a rather controversial public issue that has caused heated debates at the national as well as the international arena....

This essay discusses the importance of the Second World war between 1939 and 1945, the military conflict involving the Axis and the Allies.... The war is noted to have been the world's most widespread military conflict historically with the engagement of at least one hundred million military personnel.... The effects of World war Two on American history are far-reaching, one of the areas most affected is the country's foreign policy.... he importance of the World war two is evident in that the US contributed a lot to the final victory of the Allies and emerged as one of the World's superpowers....

The author of the paper titled "war as a Strategic Tool of Policy: The Outcome of the 1991 Gulf war" analyses the outcome of the Gulf war of 1991 and whether it served the political objectives of the principal participants, particularly the United States and the coalition.... Due to the shortness of the war, clashes stayed controllable and unity was not severely challenged.... An Analysis of the Outcome of the 1991 Gulf war Even though the Gulf war of 1991 was dominantly an American venture, it was approved as a United Nations (UN) operation, and its purpose or objective was stated by UN Security Council Resolution 678....

The writer of the paper "20th-Century Art And war" gives detailed information about features of the art in the 20th century which mirrored the impacts of wars.... 20th century art and war The making of art in the twentieth century has been greatly influenced by conflicts andwars.... Professional as well as freelance artists in different contexts across the world produced works of art that mirrored their world and their experience of war.... The Germans who lost the first world war expressed their art in a deconstructionist manner as they came to terms with a new world with other superpowers....

At the same time, they will bring all of them both oppressors and the oppressed to fear of death and war.... This essay discusses Fanon's ideas regarding the violence in terms of country's decolonization.... This chapter triggers a question whether it is possible to omit violence when it comes to decolonization.... n fact, if people do have grassroots initiatives, local intellectual leaders, one program and shared vision of the future, they can steadily move to decolonization utilizing non-violent methods of opposition....

The paper "The Emergence of China during the cold war - an Analysis of the History" states that the Emergence of China during the cold war was essentially a phenomenon that had been facilitated by a number of successful events during the period from the late 1940s to the early 1970s.... The Emergence of China during the cold war: An Analysis of the History Introduction The build up to the Korean War revolved around the changing Sino-Soviet relationship of 1949, and the subsequent war saw a growing sense of independence from the Chinese government that eventually shattered the Sino-Soviet alliance and changed the cold war situation in Asia....

The Second World war was the greatest military conflict in the conflict in history and also the most important in America as not only did it bring an end to fascism and revival of American economy amidst the Great Depression but also elevated America as the world power ahead.... Most Americans regard it as the “good war” since it united the Americans from all races against a common enemy, brought full employment, women joined the workforce, manufacturing output doubled and the African Americans got most of their civil All that said, the question that we need to answer is; was WWII a good war?...

The paper "Effects of World war II" discusses that generally speaking, the rights of indigenous people continued to be ignored and they come up with other ways of enforcing their rights in international law, especially the right to self-determination.... There are several indigenous tribes in Australia and these tribes also formed part of the country's military force that fought for the country during the Second World war.... Effects of the World war II on the outlook and political aspirations of indigenous people in Australia and the Pacific Rim ...

Date: Causes of war with the United States Summary In this article, Josefina Zoraida Vazques unveils that causes and the conditions behind the war between Mexico and the United States.... The Mexicans, in general view the war as an ambitious step by the government of the US to capture the most alluring Mexican cities- Texas and specifically California.... The primary cause between the US and Mexican war is considered to be the ambitious streak of America....

The paper "Arguments Against war" admits, that despite the recent campaigns for leading wars in different parts of the world, war itself is absolutely negative phenomenon, though in order to prove its negativity the arguments should be discussed in more detail.... We have become witnesses of the war between the US and Iraq; the recent events show us the intervention of the US to Somalia, though there is no clear evidence of the fact that the terrorist organizations responsible for the biggest world terrorist acts take their places in either of the countries....

Besides maintaining its status in the world, there were diverse reasons why USA decided to engage itself in the war.... Germans were the central factors that prompted the inception of the war.... According to lecture notes, “allies war debt to American bankers.... Ninety nine percent of the money load to Allies, if Allies lose the war, America would not get the money back (lecture notes October 23, 2013).... According to Mooney, American investors worried they might lose the money loaned to Allies if the Central Powers won the war (Mooney, 80)....

In any case, countries like China (1945-48), Vietnam, Algeria, Hungary (1956), Cuba, southern Africa in the Third World that were excluded from these gains resented this, vigorously at times, causing problems to the US-led world order and definitely to the Soviet Union, with the exception of the vietnam war, that bled the United States in terms of money, life and morale of the nation. ... Taking lead from the cold war, the U.... The British clung firmly on Indochina while the French fought an expensive war with the Vietnamese freedom fighters, reaching to a deadly end as late as 1975....

The paper 'The Relationship between Cuba and the United States regarding the cold war' tells that a meeting was held by the president of United States and the president of Cuban to restore diplomatic relations between these two countries.... Analyze the relationship between Cuba and the United States regarding the cold war. ... he warring relationship between the United States and Cuba grew its roots from the cold war.... During the cold war, a particular group together with Fidel Castro seized power in Havana and therefore overthrowing Fulgencio Batista in the year 1959....

The author of the following paper under the title "The US Civil war" will begin with the statement that in the documentation of the American civil war, which happened between 1861 and 1865, many people used various ways to record some of the events of the war.... One of the ways that people recorded the events of the civil war was through photographs that included some people who lay dead as a result of the struggle between the warring groups and soldiers who held the responsibility to mitigate the war....

the vietnam war in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the politics of healing.... In 1979, the Congress offered a vietnam war veterans' committee declared the right and authority to construct a memorial on the Monument in Washington D.... In 1979, the Congress offered a vietnam war veterans' committee declared the right and authority to construct a memorial on the Monument in Washington D.... the vietnam's Memorial was dedicated on Veterans' Day and Maya Lin with Lyn being the winner of the design....

The historical and political reasons for the Soviet strategy the American Policy and the cold war played important roles, in influencing the whole world.... olicy and the cold war played important role, influencing the whole world.... here are several debates about the time and events for the starting of the cold war.... ven though there is difference of opinions about the reasons of the cold war, it is for ... the cold war was characterized by the military and ideological rivalry ...