Korean Peninsula

The Vietnam War was the longest war in the United States history. This historical event took started on 1954 and ended on April 30, 1975 making this a 21 year war. This war that took place in the country of Vietnam hence the name, was fought between North Vietnam, Soviet Union, and China, versus South Vietnam, the US, the Philippines and other communist allies. The reason this war started was because the Vietnamese leader, Ho Chi Minh, rose to power in North Vietnam; his goal was to make Vietnam…

As events occur in the nation, of America, the belief that americans should eliminate their past and counter its existence, is growing. I believe that conflicts in the past can lead to trouble in the future, that we should acknowledge our past triumphs and failures, and embrace this nation’s triumphs and failures. Each triumph and failure from this nation’s past has changed our nation by guiding us on what actions to take. Our nation has had many different events occur in its past; which has…

unwilling to have relationship with and isolated from other countries. These ideas are conventional wisdom, which people can misunderstand because they are made through influences by education, media and so on. Suzy Kim's book, Everyday Life in The North Korean Revolution 1945-1950, and Hazel Smith’s book, North Korea Markets and Military Rule, support or challenge conventional wisdom. However, ways to analysis North Korea are different between two authors. Suzy Kim explains North Korea by using…

Taiwan was where my father was born, where it was still a third world country when he was born in 1959, to after he left in 1973 to escape from the Taiwanese military draft. When the Japanese took over Taiwan during World War II, it began to help modernize them Taiwan, but it stopped after the Japanese signed the surrender treaty (Hays). The people who lived in Taiwan still lived in wooden houses, traveled by rickshaw or animals, and still had rice farmers (though there are still today). A few…

1947, being the marked beginning of the Cold War, and proceeded to fluctuate, notably in the early 1950s signifying the Korean War and from 1955-1975 signifying the Vietnam War, until the early 1990s where it began to steadily decline until the Iraqi War in 2003. The Defense spending during the Cold War peaked at 15% of the United States GDP (Due the the beginning Cold War and Korean War), with the…

The Canadian government was justified in its actions taken during the Cold War, through the Korean war, High Arctic Exiles, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, because they had taken the most definitive action, as to mediate tension, discontinuing global damage, whilst avoiding another potential war. Firstly, in the Korean war the Canadians had sent a couple thousand troops, to aid South Korea from the invasion of North Korea. Through this, the Canadians along with a couple of United Nations forces…

Should the U.S. be involved in world affairs? The U.S. should be involved because the U.S. can do much to help the world. The U.S. has been involved in many world affairs previously; World War II, the Vietnam war, the Korean War, helping Haiti, and many other affairs of different varieties. These affairs brings people to wonder if the U.S should still be involved in world affairs due to what the U.S. has done in the past. However, evidence from the past affairs leaves me to believe that the U.S.…

War of the Decade: Korean War The Korean War was a brutal and bloodthirsty war. North Korea starts the war with South Korea when they invaded them. After a couple of years the fighting still continues but even more fierce. There were some good things that happened after the war but there were also some very heart breaking moments as well. The korean war shaped the way America interfered with other countries affairs dealing with communism. More than 68 years ago the korean war haunted the…

severity of Pyongyang's human rights crisis”(Enos). This quote shows that the U.S. already know North Korean people do not have good human rights. The one example of violation of human rights is camp where political prisoners forced to go. There was one woman works very slow, the officer was furious with her slow working. Therefore, she “was ordered to sit on her knees on the…

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as NATO, was created in the year of 1949. As stated in the article, “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization”, “NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. From its inception, its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation.” In other words, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance between North America and Europe. This…