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- 4701: Whitewater Vs. Watergate.
- ... Susan McDougal. There was also a Whitewater-connected investigation into the alleged cover-up of the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster. One political issue that connects Watergate and Whitewater is the destructive effect of increasing amounts of money for major political campaigns. People seeking loopholes and the competitive advantage have abolished the Watergate-inspired legislation created to reform campaign financing. There is no question that violations by people ...
- 4702: Vietnam War - The War We Should Have Won
- ... of the defoliating gas, Agent Orange. Hundreds of millions of acres of jungle were destroyed and even more fields and rice paddies were poisoned because of Agent Orange. South Vietnamese farmers complained about the detrimental effect Agent Orange had on their rice paddies, and its use flooded camps and cities with refugees from outlying areas where entire crops were destroyed. Agent Orange was supposed to eliminate the VC's advantageous hiding ...
- 4703: Vietnam War - The Vietnam War
- ... on January 30, 1968 a Vietcong uprising, now commonly known as the Tet Offensive, took place. Tet is the Vietnamese new year and is commonly accepted as a cease-fire. With a cease-fire in effect, most major cities' defensives were less tight. As if all at once, more than one hundred South Vietnamese cities were being shelled with Vietcong gunfire. Included in the cities were Saigon, capital of South Vietnam ...
- 4704: Vietnam War - Summary Of Vietnam
- ... which, in all honesty, the United States should never have been involved in. North Vietnam was battling for ownership of South Vietnam, so that they would be a unified communist nation. To prevent the domino effect and the further spread of communism, the U.S. held on to the Truman Doctrine and stood behind the South Vietnamese leader, Diem. Kennedy and Diem were both killed in 1963 and 1964. Johnson took ...
- 4705: Vietnam
- ... which he declared Loas to be the cornerstone to a free world in Southeast Asia. He continued on to explain to the American people if Loas fell to communism it would lead to a domino effect in the rest of Asia and soon onto the rest of world. At the time of this speech Loas political leadership was in turmoil and in danger of turning into a communist state. McNamara uses ...
- 4706: Slavery - The Anti-Slavery Effort
- ... under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, an antislavery novel of such force that it is often listed among the causes of the Civil War. The effect of Uncle Toms Cabin on the conscience of northerners who read it was so emense, that Abraham Lincoln called her the little women that started the great war. Stowe, born in Litchfield, Connecticut on ...
- 4707: Slavery - Slavery And Human Decency
- ... frequently lashed out to their slaves to instill the idea of obedience and loyalty (Collier 28). The evidence clearly shows that slavery was wrong, and I believe the slaveholders knew it. Guilt is an inevitable effect of slavery. The simple fact remains that men were enslaving men. Regardless of how much inferior a slaveholder may perceive his slaves, it is obvious that his "property" looks similar, had similar needs, and has ...
- 4708: Slavery - An Era Of Inhumanity
- ... sacrifice who is willing to give up everything important in his life to satisfy his master and save him from debt. His honesty and submissive attitude touches ones heart and also adds to the effect to the melancholic mood at the same time. Yet, this scene seems unrealistic. One is amazed at Uncle Tom's willingness not to disappoint his master and sacrifice his own life and everything he has ...
- 4709: Reconstruction
- ... African Americans living in it as well as the countless African Americans living in it at the time. There were three goals the reconstruction set, and failed to achieve, as well as emphasizing the profound effect it had on the south, and an entire race. In the South the Reconstruction period was a time of readjustment accompanied by disorder. Southern whites wished to keep blacks in a condition of quasi-servitude ...
- 4710: Political Policies Between The United States And The Soviet
- ... down or made it more benign" (Garthoff 1994:1123). Perhaps dιtente could be viewed, not as a method of preventing or deterring tension which might lead to war, but as a way of postponing their effect until the United States could more effectively deal with them. By 1976, dιtente was a controversial term with both left and right hands of the disagreement criticizing its development. With the Administration of Jimmy Carter ...
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