Korean War

After the victory of World War 2 with the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, America lived in constant fear, especially children in schools. A film was shown to all students demonstrating survival techniques on a nuclear attack, and the image of little johnny showed how a nuclear attack can occur at any moment, thus giving them nightmares.(Cnn Duck and Cover).Living daily life with the fear of nuclear attacks isn’t a “happy” life since fear is a negative connotation. Happy days falls on the…

drastically once the Vietnam War began. At the start of the Cold War, the United States' society was caught in an age of consensus. During this time period, the people of the United States conformed to a certain normality which was widespread because of the Cold War. However, once the generation born in the age of consensus came of age, the age of dissent began. Through expanded education and literary works from the Left, the youth began to rebel against conformity. The Vietnam War provided the…

War was brought to homes all around the U.S. the very first time in history with the Vietnam War. The general public watched houses being demolished, kids being burned to death, and american dead bodies being sent home. Although early reports usually gave support to U.S involvement, newscast modified the war majorly once the Tet Offensive happened. The anti-war movement was gaining lots of media attention. Reports of this war and its ensuing shock on people 's opinions has been considered for…

In this section, I am going to explain why it is beneficial for a superpower to have a grand strategy (or maybe finish the last paragraph with that). The policy of containment of the United States during the Cold war perfectly shows the purposefulness of having a coherent, clear and functioning high strategy for superpowers. I believe that it is one of the most successful and clear examples of how grand strategy can actually work – maybe in the end of the paragraph. It was firstly designed by…

Park Chung Hee and Kim Il Sung are perhaps the two most influential Koreans of the 20th century. They were leaders of two opposing sides on a divided Korean peninsula. Park was the leader of South Korea, known as The Republic of Korea (ROK), and Kim was the leader of North Korea, known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Since the Korean War, their countries have been in a stalemate characterized by a switch between periods of polarizing tension and times of cooperation and…

coined the term “Iron Curtain” while giving a speech in Missouri. In 1947 Bernard Baruch created the term the “Cold War” is an attempt to describe post WWII relations between Western powers and particularly the United States and the Soviet Union. Both nations were once allies in an effort to eradicate Europe from Hitler and his brand of Nazism. However, after a positive outcome for the war for the allies the U.S and the Soviets…

Throughout the 20th century, the fate of East Asia was deciding by wars. In 1950 the war between North and South Korea began. When Korea was liberated from Japan, the victorious allies decided to divide Korea in two parts, where south belonged to the US and north to the USSR. Therefore, Communism was established in north and capitalism in south. However, Kim Il-sung the leader of North Korea wanted to unify Korea and he was hoping to get a support from the USSR. Josef Stalin rejected his offer,…

1. In the summer of 1941, Admiral Kimmel received many warnings concerning the imminence of war. He took a plan about gave priority to training key personnel and supplying basic equipment to U.S. outposts in the Far East. In the late fall of 1941. Admiral Kimmel and his staff continued to cling to the policy to which they had committed themselves. On November 27, 1941, he received an explicit "war warning" from the chief of naval operations in Washington, which stirred up his concern but did…

sanctions the United States are threatening North Korea with are very horrifying to North Korea. The sanctions against North Korea are affecting human rights around the world. The human rights in North Korea are in harsh conditions. 25 million North Koreans live in poverty. Many don’t have indoor plumbing and need a fireplace for heat. Many are short of food and water. Their life is strictly controlled as many people can not use the internet (EBSCO). “The sanctions will undoubtedly hurt the…

While the First World War was happening, Canadas foreign policy was still entirely controlled by Britain. Due to Britain, completely, when Britain went to war Canada had to go to war. When the Second World War arrived, Canada was independent from Britain and consequently had an individual foreign policy. Hence Canada was able to make decisions whether or not they wanted to go to war. During 1968 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, had plans…