International Organizations & Conflicts Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (147) essays
International Organizations & Conflicts essays:
Why were the French unable to defeat the Viet Minh in the first Indo China War?
... Allies World War I. The Vietnamese, for the best part of the conflict represented by the Viet Minh were tired of Colonial oppression, and following Japans announcement on an Independent State of Vietnam, The Viet Minh , under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh ...
Cuban missile crisis/ww3?
... President Batista governed in Cuba. The revolution (= Guerrilla war) by Fidel Castro and Ernest Che Guevara overthrew Batista and Castro came to power (8th January ...
The Versailles Treaty
... of the Treaty of Versailles to the fact that it ignored the wise rule than an intelligent victor does one of two things to the vanquished: he crushes or conciliates." Unfortunately, by the end of the war, true conciliation was not possible due to the state of ...
How successful was the league of nations in the 1920's? This essay analyses the problems and difficulties of the first attempt of a world security organization
... league in the 1920's? The League of Nations main aim was in: "stopping wars, improving people's lives and jobs, in encouraging disarmament and in enforcing the decisions made in the peace Treaty of Versailles." If we consider the above statement to judge the successes of the league ...
The Tet Offensive
... United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam" (bleep). The Vietnam War began soon after the Geneva Conference divided Vietnam into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, or North Vietnam, and the Republic of Vietnam, also known as South Vietnam. The Vietnam War ...
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War in 1848.
... of the wishes of the people who resided in that state, that it was willing to risk war with the United States. The two most important America figures during the Mexican-American War were President ...
Escalation of the US-Vietnam Conflict.
... communism, neighboring states would follow became known as the domino effect. Lao, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia would probably fall if it did. Comparing with the First and Second World Wars, the US in Vietnam ...
Was the League of the Nations a Stupid Idea?
... President of America, Thomas Woodrow Wilson once stated: "It is not enough just to win the war. We must win it in such a way to keep the future peace of the world." Thus, he helped form the League of Nations in 1920. Theoretically, the establishment of the League of Nations ...
Which was more important as a reason for the failure of the League of Nations in the 1930's? The absence of the USA or Britain and France's self interest
... of the League of Nations in the 1930's was due to two main reasons. Firstly, the absence of the USA. The League of Nations was thought up by the American president Woodrow Wilson it was one of his 14 points. He had come up with the idea, the League ...
The My Lai Massacre
... of that very point, maybe things would have turned out differently. "My Lai conveys terrible truths about the Vietnam war that we simply must face. We cannot avoid the abyss that is our history. We repeat it, if we are ignorant of ...