Does Our Nation Always Success Essay

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Does our nation always success? In the 20th century, U.S. are activated in many war between different countries. WWI, WWII, Cold War, Korean War, and VIetnam War are the major wars that U.S. have attend. Each war have a disparate objective. You might think that U.S. won most of the wars, however, not all winning can be count as a success. In my opinion, Most conflicts that have connection with U.S. are failures with only one exception. First, U.S. supported South Vietnam, but it fall into communist after American troops leaved. Second, U.S. did not contain the communist and Korea stayed the same. Last but not least, U.S. have supported Allies to win WWI, however it did not bring the world into a lasting peace.

To Start with, Vietnam War is a completely failure. South Vietnam fought the North Vietnamese army with the help of the U.S. The target of this Cold War era conflict was the containment of communist. Because U.S. believed that if vietnam fall into communist, other country that is around will follow, so U.S. supported South vietnam with military base and it were gained from 16,000 to 500,000 and 60,000 of them died. Many americans protest this war because vietnam does not have anything to do with the U.S. After U.S. soldier leaves, South Vietnam fall, and vietnam become a whole nation under communist. This war not just ended with a mistake, but a
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German promised Mexico to give back their lost land in U.S. if they joined the war. This telegram were broken by British and published to the public. President Wilson feels that U.S have to declare a war against Germany due to the anger of German’s telegram and their threat of sinking U.S. ships. The objective of this war is to stop German From attacking, and to create a lasting peace. U.S. military and resources helped to end the war. The central power loss, however, this “Last War” did not create a permanent peace for the world. Twenty one years later, WWII

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