Geneva Conference

white background. This treaty was known as the Geneva Convention which is only concerned with wounded soldiers. This convention was replaced by a second Geneva Convention in 1906, a third one in 1929 and a fourth one in 1949. In 1906, the convention was extended and amended by the creation of a second Geneva Convention on wounded and sick. This was replaced by a third Geneva Convention in 1929 but remained active until 1970. In 1929, the third Geneva Convention dealt with the prisoners of war…

INTRODUCTION The question this essay will explore is the following: "Why did the United States get involved in Vietnam after the fall of the French at the Battle of Dien Dien Phu?" This is important because the reasons the U.S. entered the Vietnam War are still a controversial issue today and people may not understand or may just be completely oblivious to the facts. This is important to study because many Americans died during the war and it still effects decisions made by presidents today.…

The Geneva Conventions refer to two types of armed conflict—“international armed conflict” and “non-international armed conflict”—but do not define the term “armed conflict” and do not provide definitive answers in peripheral situations of conflict, such as those involving a State and a transnational terrorist network. However, the Geneva Conventions do not operate in a vacuum but function in conjunction with other bodies…

Humanitarian principles have been part of human existence since the beginning of recorded history. The idea that it is good to protect and provide for the most vulnerable members of society—the widows and orphans, disabled and sick, foreigners and paupers is central to all religious traditions. Long before the development of international humanitarian law, social institutions were established in different parts of the world to care for and protect vulnerable people. Modern humanitarianism is…

The War We Couldn’t Win Freshly out of World War II, the world is faced with another war. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics begin the Cold War. Tensions between nations were at an all-time high, and the world watched as they competed against each other. The U.S. and the Soviet Union indirectly fought each other through proxy wars, one of them being the Vietnam War. It was a conflict based on two different ideologies, capitalism and communism. On March 8, 1965, the U.S…

Japanese occupation Vietnam was under the control of France and was to be returned to France following the Potsdam conference. Political decisions throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 60s as well as the defeat of the French Military by the Communist Viet Minh led to U.S. ground troop entry into the Second Indochina War (Vietnam) during the mid-1960s. (Spector, n.d.). Following the Potsdam Conference in July of 1945 and the surrender of Japanese forces in September of 1945 the whole of Vietnam was to…

French at Dien Bien Phu was a turning point in the First Indochina War but also in the how the world viewed the newly victorious Vietminh. The French retreated to their urban strongholds of Saigon and Hanoi awaiting the result of the upcoming Geneva Conference. This set piece battle was to be the opportunity for the United States equipped and funded French Expeditionary Corps to defeat the lightly equipped and trained Vietminh force on a battlefield of their choice. The battle of Dien Bien Phu…

2001 The Doha Development Round or Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is latest round of trade negotiations among the World Trade Organization (WTO) which initiated in November 2001 under then executive general Mike Moore. It is the Fourth Ministerial Conference with the goal to bring down exchange hindrances around the globe, and along these lines encourage expanded worldwide exchange. The Doha Ministerial Declaration provided the mandate for the negotiations including on agriculture, services and…

call for the United States that communism was spreading and spreading to major countries. China’s fall to communism created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). Also after the French fell to Dien Bien Phu the Geneva conference was agreed to and held, this conference was significant in that the United States and Vietnam were able to come to an agreement to split Vietnam into the north and south until elections were held. The South was protected by the U.S. whereas the North was under…

Following the Battle of Diem Bien Phu the Geneva Peace Accords were signed in 1954 and were considered a temporary resolution to conflict in Indochina. The agreement played a pivotal role in the development of both South and North Vietnam until 1964, creating instability in both regions. Politically, of one of the key elements of the peace agreement was the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel. The division played a significant role in the social development of the North and the South.…