US internationalism following World War II
Essay - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
Dissertation sur la question suivante : Despite the growing international spirit within the United States, many bristled (and continue to do so) at the commitments implied by the United Nations. Was the United States correct in fully embracing internationalism following World War II or...
Analysis of armed conflicts Mr Cook - The Six-Day War - publié le 27/01/2013
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
Seen as an ineffaceable trauma for Arabs and a poisoned victory for Israel, the Six-Day War has been a strategic moment in the history of the Middle East. Before developing the topic, a brief reminder of the previous Israeli-Arab relations is necessary to better situate and understand what...
Was the Vietnam War a civil war or an international conflict?
Case study - 7 pages - Political science
Although the conflict started in South East Asia, the Vietnam War was the lengthiest and probably one of the most polemical military conflicts in the history of the U.S. In order to understand the complexity of the Vietnam War, it is necessary to look at the context and period of...
Why did communism become established in Eastern Europe after the Second World War? - publié le 04/03/2008
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - International relations
On the 25th of April 1945, shortly before the official end of the Second World War, American and Soviet soldiers meet at the Elbe river. But to reach the Elbe river, the Russian troops had to come all the way across Europe, and so across Eastern Europe. By the end of the same year, seven...
To what extent was the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war about the situation in Cambodia? - publié le 28/06/2013
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
On the 17th February 1979 the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched a large-scale attack into Vietnam in order « to teach Vietnam a lesson » , according to the words of Deng Xiao Ping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since Mao Zedong's death. Vietnam answered to the attack...
Vietnam war: US involvement in Vietnam (1965-1975) - publié le 16/04/2014
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Vietnam was part of the French colonial empire since the late 1850s. During World War II, the French were defeated by the Germans and the Japanese invaded Vietnam. As a consequence, the French and Japanese forces were forced to cooperate in order to rule Vietnam. The Japanese evicted the...
America's war in Vietnam
Essay - 21 pages - Modern history
Today the vast majority of puzzled mankind associates the word "Vietnam" with the cruel war, which erupted in this small Southeast Asian country. This cruel war was the result of the repercussions of the Second World War This war, was led by the United States. However,...
Why did communism become established in Eastern Europe after the Second World War?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Shortly before the official end of the Second World War, on 25th April 1945, American and Soviet soldiers met at the Elbe. In order to reach the Elbe River, the Russian troops had to come all the way across Europe, thus crossing Eastern Europe. By the end of the same year, seven states...
Vietnam war: US involvement in Vietnam (1965-1975)
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Vietnam was part of the French colonial empire since the late 1850s. During World War II, the French were defeated by the Germans and the Japanese invaded Vietnam. As a consequence, the French and Japanese forces were forced to cooperate in order to rule Vietnam. The Japanese evicted the...
Analysis of armed conflicts Mr Cook - The Six-Day War
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
Seen as an ineffaceable trauma for Arabs and a poisoned victory for Israel, the Six-Day War has been a strategic moment in the history of the Middle East. Before developing the topic, a brief reminder of the previous Israeli-Arab relations is necessary to better situate and understand what...
To what extent was the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war about the situation in Cambodia?
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
On the 17th February 1979 the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched a large-scale attack into Vietnam in order « to teach Vietnam a lesson » , according to the words of Deng Xiao Ping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since Mao Zedong's death. Vietnam answered to the attack...
Is US primacy actually a stimulus to war, or a means of achieving international order?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Over the course of the last two centuries, the United States has established itself as an economic, political and military leader in the international community. Although it is quite evident that the US has been the dominant world power throughout the course of the twentieth century, like many...
Analysis of Martin Luther King's speech against the Vietnam War "A Time to Break Silence"
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
Without a doubt, one of the most important speeches ever delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. was a "A Time to Break Silence.” In his speech, which he delivered at New York's City's Riverside Church on April 4 (1967), King delivered a speech that criticized the envoy of American troops to...
The Iraq war: an International Relations Theory Analysis - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 16 pages - Political science
On the nineteenth of March 2003 America and its allies started their invasion of Iraq. This intervention had the official goal of the struggle against a terrorism-friendly country, to avoid the expansion of mass destruction weapons and establish a democratic breakthrough in the Middle East. This...
The origins of human aggression and just war theory
Thesis - 6 pages - Philosophy
Critics of just war theory will remind people of its theoretical nature and inability to prevent a war. While this is certainly true, in that politicians in power are unlikely to attempt to use just war theory to prove that their cause is just before entering a war,...
The Iraq war: an International Relations Theory Analysis
Case study - 16 pages - Political science
On the nineteenth of March 2003 America and its allies started their invasion of Iraq. This intervention had the official goal of the struggle against a terrorism-friendly country, to avoid the expansion of mass destruction weapons and establish a democratic breakthrough in the Middle East. This...
Vietnam: winning the war and losing the peace (1954-2002)
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
With the exception of Cambodia, there is hardly any other country in the world that can claim to have suffered as much as Vietnam in the post-World War II period. The country was marked by continual conflict, leaving it with generations traumatised by war, terror and bombings. There...
The political role of prisoners of war in postwar Germany
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
In the period immediately following its defeat in the Second World War Germany was faced with many problems: rebuilding itself after the destruction of the war, re-establishing a political infrastructure, and coming to grips with its Nazi past. Although these were critical issues,...
To what extent does realism naturalize war?
Market study - 5 pages - International relations
In 1991 a US-led coalition launched, with the agreement of UN, a wide military operation against the rogue regime of Saddam Hussein that had attempted to invade Kuwait in order to take over its staggering oil resources. George Herbert Bush, at the head of the coalition that was to rescue Kuwait,...
American Foreign Policy: What was driving the war on terror?
Thesis - 7 pages - Political science
The violence and the impact of the 9/11 attacks led the Bush government to act strongly in order to reassure the American people. Acting strongly at the time meant that the US would have to fight "the war on terror". This expression, although vague, highlighted a struggle against...
Bush's preventive war: Doctrine of mass confusion (Broadening or contortion of the concept of pre-emptive self-defense?) - publié le 16/05/2009
Thesis - 23 pages - Political science
The debate triggered by the new Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive action lies in the amalgamation between pre-emptive (i.e. anticipatory) and preventive self-defense. While the former finds legal and political basis, the latter is, so far, hardly distinguished from outright aggression. The Bush...
Examination of the my lai massacre- one of the most infamous events of the vietnam war review of the book "my lai: a brief history with documents" (james stuart olson, randy roberts) - published: 21/05/2012
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
This report will analyze the book “My Lai” by the historians Olson and Roberts. To look at the different issues that surrounded the My Lai massacre, it is necessary to look at the specific situation of the area at the time. The Vietminh emerged in 1941 with the aim of obtaining...
Assessment of the Second World War
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Over 60 million people were killed, representing more than 2.5% of the world population at the time. This article attempts to develop a human and material toll of the war. In 1945, many regions in Europe are destroyed...
To what extent does realism naturalize war? - publié le 02/03/2009
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
In 1991 a US-led coalition launched, with the agreement of UN, a wide military operation against the rogue regime of Saddam Hussein that had attempted to invade Kuwait in order to take over its staggering oil resources. George Herbert Bush, at the head of the coalition that was to rescue Kuwait,...
Was the Gulf war a just war?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
Just two days after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991, Saddam Hussain became a new threat to the world order. Saddam Hussain, who had deliberately violated the international rules by aggressing Kuwait, one of his Arab neighbours as a result of which the war against Iraq became...
Bush's preventive war: Doctrine of mass confusion (Broadening or contortion of the concept of pre-emptive self-defense?)
Dissertation - 34 pages - International relations
The debate triggered by the new Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive action lies in the amalgamation between pre-emptive (i.e. anticipatory) and preventive self-defense. While the former finds legal and political basis, the latter is, so far, hardly distinguished from outright aggression. The Bush...
World War II: the United States and Great Britain
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
The period preceding the World War II in many respects defined the role of the USA in the pending war. It was crucial in a sense that the US had undergone one of the direst economic crises and was at the outset of industrial revolution. President Franklin Roosevelt proved himself...
The Consequences of World War Two
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
A shift in the world axis of power is seen as the major result of the war. Power shifted from Europe because most of the countries had been crippled by the war and their economies were left yearning for intervention. The war had taken place against a backdrop of world...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy´s Vietnam policy : a groundwork leading to war ?
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
On November 1st, 1955, Dwight D. Eisenhower deployed the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) to train the South Vietnamese Army, which had about 200 Americans. Ten years later, almost 400, 000 GIs were fighting in Vietnam. 58, 000 of these people never came back. During this period, the...
War and the American Presidency : Arthur Schlesinger - publié le 29/11/2006
Book review - 4 pages - Political science
War And The American Presidency was written by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who used to be an adviser for Adlai Stevenson's campaign and a special assistant to President Kennedy . He participated in the founding of Americans for Democratic Action, “America's oldest independent liberal...
