Essays Tagged: "National Liberation Front"
Has Political Islam failed in Algeria?
f jobs, especially with the growth rate of population that is up to 3%, thirty percent of the Gross National Product used to go to service the payment of the national debt . This, of course, resulted ... ularists, leftists, feminists and Berberists, all demonstrating their disillusionment with the FLN (National Liberation Front). " The FLN government responded by the Army intervention and the arbitrar ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Describe the origins, developments and consequences of a current conflict.
volved such as Jamal al-Din, Muhammad Abduh and Muhammad Rashad Rida with ideas of self defence and national union. Colonial rule however was both new and very strong and these patriots found it very ... perialist nations could be thrown off only by anti-imperialist nations and movements and parties of nationalism were so formed.There were however greater difficulties in Algeria due to the fact that F ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
This essay covers the issue of declonization of Africa and India
102). Gandhi urged all Indians to act and feel as one nation, undivided, emphasizing religious over national identity. In attempts to end the religious battle Gandhi started to fast (Bentley 1102). In ... ficant consequences for the process of decolonization. Ghandi's resistance to British rule inspired nationalists around the globe before and after World War II, independence in India and Pakistan enco ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Tet Offensive
On January 31, 1968 The National Liberation Front launched a surprise attack on South Vietnam called the Tet Offensive. The ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Forecast for the Philippines:2001-2002
naged to sign a ceasefire agreement with the more mainstream Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Moro National Liberation Front rebel groups. The former president, Joseph Estrada, has been arraigned on ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
"Peace with honour" - the Vietnam War under President Nixon.
War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975, involving the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF) in conflict with United States forces and the South Vietnamese army. ... pedia/n/ni/nixon_doctrine.htm)Recognizing the limits of American power as well as the limits of its national security interests, and reflecting the popular weariness with the long and inconclusive war ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
The Country of Algeria.
t through much of the 1950s to achieve independence in 1962. Algeria's primary political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), has dominated politics ever since. Many Algerians in the subsequent ... tellite system with 12 earth stations (20 additional domestic earth stations are planned). The international country code is 213 and there is 5 submarine cables and microwave radio relay to Italy, Fra ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The significance of the Tet Offensive for the Vietnam War.
Tet Offensive : In 1968, the National Liberation Front and Vietcong launched a surprise attack against American and South Vietnam ... luding 13 provincial capitals were seized and shockingly, the US embassy in Saigon was invaded. The National Liberation Front and Vietcong sent more than 80,000 soldiers for the Tet Offensive and afte ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts
What was the significance of the Tet Offensive for the Vietnam War?
ver. They saved South Vietnamese government but over 15,000 Americans had died in the conflict. The National Liberation Front and Vietcong launched the Tet Offensive in Feb. 1968 against the South and ... ge demonstrations of over 250,000 people against the war. On 4 May, at Kent State University, Ohio, National Guardsmen panicked when faced with student protesters. Four students were killed, including ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Why did US citizens change their opinion on the Vietnam War as it progressed?
to a swift end soon, that there was "light at the end of the tunnel". But on January 30th 1968, the National Liberation Front and the People's Army of Vietnam attacked various major cities in South Vi ... tests increased and sometimes these marches became violent. In Chicago, August 1968, the Democratic National Convention as interrupted by thousands of police officers attacking protests who were outsi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
My Lai Massacre
e. This area was many times the scene for the worst fighting to take place between the U.S. and the National Liberation Front. The hamlet of My Lai was said to be the strongest of the NLF guerrilla fo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Vietnam
o regain power over Vietnam, and a war began.During the war Viet cong was started and it became the national liberation front of South Vietnam. It included all groups that opposed Diem and U.S. (Groli ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
The Vietnam Conflict The Vietnam War was a long and
owever, opposition to Diem was so widespread in rural areas that the southern Communists formed the National Liberation Front (NLF), and in 1960 the North Vietnamese government gave its formal sanctio ... ated Richard Nixon (Vietnam War, World Book Online Americas Edition). The same year Hanoi forms the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam. Diem?s government names them the ?Vietcong.? President ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Attributes of a Organized Crime Group
La Mara. Several others previously belonged to paramilitary groups. One such group, Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMNL), was comprised of Salvadorians trained in guerilla warfare. Many in ... al factions of the 1950s such as the Mafia and Hell's Angels,' (Logan and Morse, 2007). In 2004 the National Drug Intelligence Center stated that the gang "may be increasing its coordination with MS-1 ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Battle of Algiers: Reaction
n district; though this wasn’t a choice made on part of the leadership for equality within the National Liberation Front (FLN) but rather a tactical decision. When the checkpoints were erected ar ... ong with Ali La Pointe. During the very telling interview that Col. Mathieu gives to a room of international reports he claims, “There are 80,000 Arabs in the Kasbah. Are they all against us? We ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis