Gulf of Tonkin Incident

rights…what about the right of the Vietnamese people to choose their own form of government? Many people were struggling for their “rights” at that time: African Americans and other minority groups were protesting for their rights for years before this incident. Women who had just been given the right to vote in 1919 were struggling for equal opportunity and equal pay, and they still are. Many gays were protesting even though public ridicule and death were huge possibilities. There was an…

the idea of the American identity because the filmmakers wanted to recapture that image of America being the protector and the stopper of evil. Many people in the public were finding out that the country had went to war based on a lie called the Gulf of Tonkin even where according to Jesse Greenspan…

others who died after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a chaotic protesting group of students on Kent State University. The shooting that occurred on May 4, 1970 will forever be known as the Kent State Massacre (Thomas and Hensley). Several incidents led up to the shooting, however, the Ohio National Guard should not have opened fire on the students protesting on the campus of Kent State University. The students were protesting the United…

Lyndon B. Johnson, like Kennedy, seized the opportunity to incorporate the civil religion into his inaugural address. Unlike Kennedy, however, Johnson utilized religious rhetoric in a more prophetic manner to illustrate his feelings that politics and religion should go hand in hand. Johnson reminded listeners that prominence in America was achieved “with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit,” and that “if we fail now then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in…

People go through their lives every single day without batting an eye at what is happening behind the scenes. Every government has done something wrong, something atrocious, or even something just plain ridiculous. When people think of a conspiracy they probably go straight for something involving the Nazis or Hitler, but did you know there are conspiracies involving the very United States of America? There are plenty of truths in those conspiracies as well and many of them are more…

War has always been a controversial issue in the United States. For a war to get public approval, the government has to successfully justify the war and lay out a clear plan for its quick and honorable end. Most wars have been justified as being for the defense of the United States or its interests. Prior to and including World War II, if the President decided that war was needed, he would ask Congress for an official declaration of war. This process is enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 of the…

The Vietnam War - Yesterday and Today (Cool Intro that i can't think of) The United States has taken place in a number of wars that had an innumerable amount of effects, both good and bad, on the history of us as a nation. One of these conflicts include the Vietnam War, taking place from 1954 through till 1975 with the North seizing control of the Southern Vietnamese capital of Saigon. ("Vietnam War History.") While at its peak over half a million US soldiers were stationed on the Vietnam soil,…

of brutal weaponry. Even though some government officials thought they were doing the right thing to protect southeast asia's freedom. It wasn’t worth giving up the many of our own people's freedom. The senate claimed in their debates of the Tonkin Gulf (Doc 8) 1964 that “the United States is assisting the people of southeast asia to protect their freedom.” Now this may make the United States look like they are doing the right thing in policing the world since we are ultimately trying to…

When people claim that “nothing ever changes” and “life will always be the same,” one word holds the ability to accurately sum up that conjecture: wrong. The world constantly undergoes changes, both socially and otherwise. American remains an increasingly mobile society. The antebellum area, specifically 1820 to 1840, involved times of great change, be it social, economic, or political. Whether these changes benefitted or hurt society remains debatable, but it is undeniable that these changes…

who died after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a chaotic, protesting group of students at Kent State University. The shooting that occurred on May 4, 1970, will incessantly be branded as the Kent State Massacre (Lewis and Hensley). Numerous incidents led up to the, however, the Ohio National Guard should not have opened fire towards the students protesting on the campus of Kent State University. Kent State students were not the first group to protest against the Vietnam War. In fact, by…