Geneva Conference

There were countless women throughout American History who wished to make an impact on American Wars, but strict gender roles prohibited their involvement. Some responded by attempting to pass themselves off as men, entering wars such as the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. These women made a small, individual impact, despite the expectations of their gender, but their names are not commonly known today. Fame certainly wasn’t their intention, but it can be a somewhat…

deadly communism group that was said to be heartless and was able to secure us in a deadly war for many years. So do you know who the Viet Cong are? Well here is more about Viet Cong. The origin of the Viet Cong was set back in 1954 according to the Geneva Accords. The Viet Cong was the liberal armed forces for the North Vietnam. They created it to give the South Vietnamese more of a struggle. They were pretty successful because they eventually were going to give the Americans just as much of…

Kennedy has been shot and killed and Nixon has been elected as president to take his place, he meets at a news conference and he says the Vietnam war Is coming to a “conclusion as a result of the plan that we instituted” then on June at a conference he said that the United States would be following a new program called “Vietnamization” this program was for South Vietnam they had to grow their forces so the United States could withdraw…

On June 11, 1963, people watched in horror as a man burned himself in the middle of a busy Saigon road as people passed flyers around him. The Buddhists had asked for volunteers to commit suicide in order to show the world how they felt about President Ngo Dinh Diem’s way of governing South Vietnam. The man was one of four people who immolated themselves. Several months later, Diem was assassinated by his own military forces in a coup d’état that was funded and supported by the United States on…

Thus the Nazi regime was forced to assess the pogrom largely as a failure. On November 12, 1938, more than one hundred representatives of the economy, the party, and the government came together at a conference chaired by Hermann Göring (1893-1946) at the Reich Aviation Ministry. The conference aimed to devise other ways to continue the isolation, the economic exploitation, and the expulsion of the Jews ... In a gesture of cynical opportunism, it was also decided that Germany’s Jews would be…

Nissen, Billy; Wallace Rusty; Sissel, Scott Research Paper: The Vietnam War The Vietnam War was a useless war that took place in 4 different countries North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The war started soon after the Geneva conference which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel in the year of 1954. This escalated to the Vietnam civil war the Vietcong, the communist north and the south, it started out with the Viet Cong fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. Which was…

Before Ky was born in 1959, Vietnam was divided into two states at the 17th parallel during the Geneva Conference of 1954. These two states were known as North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The North was governed by a Communist Party and the South was governed by the Republic of Vietnam. Since many of the people in the North feared the persecution from the Communist regime, nearly one million individuals fled for the South. Among these one million individuals was Ky’s family. By moving to the South…

1. Discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis. Outline what occurred, the outcome, and why it was significant in the mindset of the country. How does it affect national policy regarding the U.S.S.R.? The Cuban Missile Crisis began on the 16th of October 1962 when aerial photographs of Cuba were delivered to President John Kennedy showing possible military camps with missile sites and medium range missiles. The Cuban government was being run by a pro Soviet regime dictator named Fidel Castro. Castro had…

Washington Summit, June 1973: Nixon & Brezhnev Nixon invited Brezhnev to Washington in May 1973, sending him a detailed programme of his visit to the United States. Nixon had already decided that the Summit would be held at the White House, Camp David and San Clemente and had proposed to sign two principal agreements i.e. on the prevention of nuclear war and on the fundamental principles of SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty). Brezhnev arrived at the Andrews Air Force Base on June 18 1973…

and therefore created a policy known as Massive Retaliation. Another important aspect of Eisenhower's foreign policy plan was to improve US-Soviet relationship with each other. Eisenhower agreed to have a meeting with Soviet Union in July 1955 at Geneva, Switzerland but there were no boundaries about other international issues and arms control. The meeting helped reduce some tension between the two nations but has risen again when the U-2 plane flown in a covert operation was shot down by the…