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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"War in Vietnam"”.
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“One, two, three, four, we don’t want your fucking war”: The student protest movements at Columbia University and Kent State University during the war in Vietnam
… success ofthose protests is significantly lacking from the historical record. The Vietnam era was a pivotal turning point in American university life, during which students across the country pushed for changes not only to the institutions of higher learning but also to the country as a whole. …
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The Australian-American alliance: Holt, LBJ and the Vietnam War
The Australian-American alliance, since World War II, has served as Australia’s most important bilateral relationship, particularly in the field of security. Two decades later, the Australian government entered the war in Vietnam to secure an American military presence on the Asian mainland. This …
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The War Powers Resolution: Reassessing the Constitutional Balance of Power
This thesis is an analysis of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the impact it held on the role of Congress and the President in entering war. More specifically, this thesis takes a look at President Richard M. Nixon’s influence on the 93rd Congress’s decision to pass the War Powers Resolution …
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Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
This dissertation examines scientists' views concerning the ethics of U.S. weapons research and military advising, through the changing politics and economy of the Cold War. After the development of the atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project generation of physicists posed a series of troubling ethical …
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The Vietnam War and its Detrimental Effects on Chicanos
… essay is to discuss the possibility that the Vietnam War could have been a stepping stone in the socio-economic ladder for Mexican-Americans; and why many Chicanos did indeed see the war as an opportunity for social mobility. In addition, I will discuss how in reality the war did not bring …
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United States Intervention in Vietnam: A Critical Evaluation of Policy and Decisionmaking
The United States intervened in South Vietnam in an attempt to prevent formation of a communist state there. The intervention was a failure; the country came under communist control. This thesis describes and analyzes the goals and policies of American intervention during the period 1950 through …
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A True War Story: Reality and Simulation in the American Literature and Film of the Vietnam War
<p>The Vietnam War has become an important symbol and signifier in contemporary American culture and politics. The word "Vietnam" contains many meanings and narratives, including both the real events of the American War in Vietnam and the fictional representations of that war. Because we live in a …
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The Protester as Producer: Militant Action and the U.S. Radical Media
… as an apparatus of cultural production. I examine the relationship between militant protest tactics and the radical media to show how actions like vandalism, sabotage, armed self-defence, armed propaganda, and self-immolation circulated as new forms of cultural expression and public discourse …
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Poisons of war
My father, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, took his life in November 1976, when I was only a year old. The nature of his death kept the details of his life, his illness, and his suicide hidden in grief and shame for many years. My mother’s secondary PTSD kept her …
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To the brink of empire : Rusk, Kissinger and the transformation of American foreign policy
In July 1965, Lyndon Johnson committed the United States to the ground war in Vietnam. This thesis argues that the 1965 decision marks a turning point in American foreign policy by creating a near Machiavellian Moment for the United States characterised by the question of Republic or Empire? To …
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The massacre at My Khe 4: a different story.
… the name given by the Americans to a sub-hamlet in the village of Son My in South Vietnam. According to the Vietnamese, American soldiers killed over ninety civilians there on 16 March 1968, the day that, less than two miles away, another unit was massacring the inhabitants of My Lai 4. The …
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Britain, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Malaysian-Indonesian confrontation, 1961-1965.
This thesis analyses an international crisis in the mid-1960s known as the Malaysian-Indonesian Confrontation (Konfrontasi). It began in January 1963 and effectively ended with the establishment of military rule in Jakarta during late 1965. The focus of the thesis is to examine how the four western …
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The rise of the Reagan Democrats in Warren, Michigan, 1964-1984
… 1964 to 1984, the Democratic Party lost support in the white working class Detroit suburb of Warren, Michigan, as formerly loyal Democrats defected to vote for George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. This study examines three controversies that contributed to this "Democratic …
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Poor Anima
… of my bicultural identity—the practice of composing in a non-native language and the act of speaking one’s native language that possesses no written form (though captured in the synthetic Romanized Popular Alphabet, initially for religious conversion, and now, for study, for something). As a …
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Poor Anima
… of my bicultural identity—the practice of composing in a non-native language and the act of speaking one’s native language that possesses no written form (though captured in the synthetic Romanized Popular Alphabet, initially for religious conversion, and now, for study, for something). As a …
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Marching Upward: The Role of the Military in Social Stratification and Mobility in American Society
… addresses the extent to which participation in the military affects subsequent status attainment and mobility in America. The purpose of this research was to conduct a comprehensive examination of existing empirical research resulting in a synthesis of findings and establishing a concise …
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US policy towards Indochina, 1973-6
The topic of my doctoral dissertation is Washington's Indochina policy from 1973-6. My thesis seeks to shed new light on the period and aims to clarify the central points that have been raised in the surrounding academic controversy. In the study it is argued that neither the so-called "decent …
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Remote Control: Art, Technology, and the Politics of Distance (1966-1972)
Platforms carrying dancers across a stage, doors sliding open as if by magic, and simultaneous Happenings in Berlin and Buenos Aires: remote control promised thrills as postwar artists experimented with technologies of distance. Focused on the half-decade between 1966 and 1972, this thesis …
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