Korean War Veterans Memorial

communists North Korea. All of these men, to my surprise had entered into North Korea willingly and were not captured or necessarily prisoners of war. They had all abandoned there posts and went to North Korea for a variety of reasons, even they can’t explain the exacts reasons for crossing the deadly boarder into communism. After Dresnok was captured by the North Korean army for crossing the border, they interrogated him, only to learn he was just a simple soldier who didn 't have any useful…

extent, mostly to blame for the start of the Falklands war. Argentina initiated attacks on the British controlled Falklands islands that caused tension to build up between the two sides. They did this in the hope that England would back down and enter into negotiations with them. This failed, the pressure that Argentina created built up and instead England responded with attacks using the navy, the two sides consequently ended up in a full-scale war. Therefore to a large extent, the actions…

the some of the criticisms leveled against his theory, Waltz in his last article structural realism after the cold war, he defends his theory by concluding that Democracies according to Kantian philosophy do not wage war against each other, and then shows empirically that, in fact, they really do. He provides examples of democracies of various types that fought each other in World War I, and also the US crusade against the Latin American, democratically elected governments in the Dominican…

General Hap Arnold’s 6 December 1945 memorandum to General Tooey Spaatz is timeless. At the time, the United States was coming out of a lengthy world war and there were many lessons to be passed on to someone who would face a very different environment – one of peace and stability. The key tenets and lessons highlighted by General Arnold would not only pertain to the immediate future General Spaatz would soon encounter, but indeed they would be and are still relevant almost 75 years later.…

A walk through West Berlin: Containment of Communism After WWII , The United States made great efforts to contain communism from spreading around the world. Containment was the idea that the Soviet Union and Soviet communism should not be allowed to spread. A short passage, from a telegram that was secretly sent to U.S. State Department officials on February 22, 1946 from an American foreign service officer in Moscow makes it clear that Joseph Stalin and the Soviets believe communism is better…

1. How did Chiang Kai-shek lose control of China? Chiang Kai-shek lost control of China not because of the intervention of foreign powers, but due to the various domestic problems in China. Although the CCP received assistance from the Soviet Union and Stalin’s advice to overthrow the Nationalists, it only contributed to the Communists’ victory by a small amount. This was because Chiang’s Nationalist government angered both the peasants and middle class due to the government’s inability to solve…

The Korean War was the first military clash of the Cold War, a war between the principles of democracy and the principles of communism. The two titans after World War II, the United Stated and the Soviet Union wanted to ideological shape the world in their images. President Truman, a common man in extraordinary situations, used the Cold War strategy of ‘containment’, which was not allow the spread of communism past the nations that already were communist. One of the battle lines that Truman’s…

The Aftermath of the Media Coverage on the Vietnam War The roots of the Vietnam War trace back to the Cold War and WWI (military.history.about.com). It started as a result of U.S. strategy of containment during the Cold War, which strived to prevent the spread of communism around the world. (thevietnamwar.info). Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Mark, advocating class war and is paid according to their abilities and needs. (merriam-webster.com). America believed that communism…

was not here a year ago. It shows the (Chinese) government's determination to keep the defectors out. You can sense the psychological pressure they are starting to put on the North Koreans.”-PBS. State Employee states,“This is dangerous. And if I get caught, I know I'd immediately be executed as a traitor to the Korean people. But I've got to do this. I've got to do this, no matter what. I'm just one person. Even if I have to sacrifice my life, someday something is going to change.”-PBS…

One consequence of the Truman Doctrine was the introduction of Marshall Aid into Europe, where America funded the rebuilding of various countries that had suffered economically from WWII. The Truman Doctrine was a response to the rising threat of Russia and Communism, as it expanded its influence into the impoverished Eastern Europe, and was the official attitude that the USA took towards quashing the spread. The doctrine stated that, in order to prevent the spread of communist control,…