Richard M. Nixon - von Vietnam bis Watergate
. Einleitung In der vorliegenden Projektarbeit mit dem Thema "Richard M. Nixon - von Vietnam bis Watergate", soll Richard M. Nixons Politik als 37. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten dargestellt werden, sowie der Watergate-Skandal, der schließlich die Ursache für den unrühmlichen Rücktritt Nixons vom Amt des Präsidenten der USA verantwortlich war. Zu Beginn der Projektarbeit wird zunächst das Leben Nixons bis zu seinem Amtsantritt zum US-Präsidenten, als eine Einleitung auf die Hauptthemen, beschrieben, um einen Eindruck zu gewinnen, aus welchen Verhältnissen Nixon stammte und wie seine berufliche und politische Karriere vor der Präsidentschaft verlief. Mit Beginn des ersten Hauptthemas wird dargestellt, welchen Ziele Nixon mit seiner Politik nachging. Es folgt eine Beschreibung von Nixons Vietnampolitik, sowie die Ausarbeitung und Erläuterung weiterer politischer Handlungen. Der zweite Schwerpunkt ist der Watergate-Skandal. Hierbei werden die Ereignisse, die zu der Affäre und zum Rücktritt Nixons geführt haben dargestellt. Zum weiteren Verständnis wird kurz das Impeachment erläutert. Der zweite Teil der Biographie soll das Leben Nixons nach dem Ende seiner Präsidentschaft erläutern. In der Quellenanalyse wird der Film "Nixon" näher betrachtet. Es wird ein Einblick auf den Inhalt gewährt, sowie auf die Darstellungsweise. Weiterhin wird eine
Cold War Study Guide - Compare/contrast the Vietnam War policies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
Name Grace Ives Cold War Study Guide #3 Directions: Please prep 3 questions with at least 3/4 page of bullet points per question. Prepare each question on a separate page. Be sure to include relevant quotations and statistics (with citations) from your readings. . Compare/contrast the Vietnam War policies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. LYNDON JOHNSON Operation Rolling Thunder - During Lyndon Johnson's presidency, he tried to limit the US' involvement in Vietnam to please the American public, but he found that in order to win the war, he would have to increase the number of troops sent to Vietnam. - Lyndon Johnson's presidency oversaw the vietnam escalation. - Lyndon Johnson conducted a US mission called, "Operation Rolling Thunder". Operation Rolling Thunder was an air force mission led by the US army in which there was relentless bombing on North Vietnam. The objective was to essentially boost the weakening morale of Southern Vietnam, and to weaken North Vietnam in hopes to end the war. - Kennedy describes operation rolling thunder as "regular full-scale bombing attacks against North Vietnam" (Kennedy 991) - Johnson sent over hundreds and thousands of troops, but tried to keep the US' increasing involvement with Vietnam as secret. - The initial focus of the increased number of US troops was to protect the US airbases in South Vietnam. Gulf
The Nixon move toward China.
The Nixon Move Toward China On February 21, 1972, President Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing, China, for historic meetings with Chairman Mao, the leader of the Peoples Republic of China. This historic trip began the development of a new American policy toward China. Before that time, the two countries were enemies and had no formal, or even informal, diplomatic relations. The new policy advanced the interests of America and is beneficial to the entire world order. Thirty years to the day after Nixon's trip to China, U.S. President George W. Bush flew to Beijing. While writing about President Bush's trip to Beijing, Simon Fraser of BBC News Online noted that Nixon's visit was a diplomatic triumph in thawing relations between China and the United States and stated that the trip "changed the world"1. Before President Nixon's trip, relations between China and the United states were those of enemies. In 1949 the Communists led by Mao Tse Tung took control of the Chinese mainland and the United States cut diplomatic ties. The United States recognized Taiwan as the legitimate Chinese government. The United States was critical of the brutal and repressive ways of the Chinese mainland government. For example, in the 1960's Mao's brutal Cultural Revolution crushed all opposition within China. This was reprehensible to the Unties States. Likewise China despised the United
Does Nixon deserve to be remembered as a criminal failure?
Does Nixon deserve to be remembered as a criminal failure? Richard Nixon, the 37th president of America, was elected for two consecutive terms in the white house, being re-elected by a landslide victory still today one the largest victories ever in US presidential elections. From this, to many it would seem that NIxon was a successful leader, one that ruled with the support of the people. However, this was quite the opposite! Nixon was the first president of the USA to resign from his presidency. Why? There were many contributing factors, which caused Nixon such overwhelming unpopularity; the Watergate scandal, Vietnam War, economic failures, corruption- these damped out all good Nixon did during his reign. He did achieve a decent amount of good in his presidency he restored the Sino-American relations, the formation of the strategic arms limitation treaty, and obviously he was able to win the election twice. Do u feel that Nixon being stated is a 'criminal failure' is a valid remark? Did Nixon even deserve to be brought down by his failures? The Watergate scandal, probably the most crushing event for Nixon's campaign, immensely humiliated Nixon personally. The scandal was devastating for Nixon, at first no-one suspected Nixon's involvement but slowly, more and more evidence revealed its self to the people, pointing slowly and centrally at Nixon. It revealed CREEP to the
Nixon was Democrat's kind of Republican.
Nixon was Democrat's kind of Republican The historian Alonzo Hamby once opened 3 an essay about Richard Nixon by asking, "Why did we hate him so?" Hamby never found a satisfactory answer, and neither have I. Hamby was writing not only as a historian but also as a liberal Democrat, and his point was that if you placed Watergate to one side -- the vilification of Nixon pre-dated the scandals, after all -- Nixon's presidency should appear more congenial to liberals than conservatives. Nixon abolished the draft, proposed a guaranteed income, instituted the first federal affirmative-action quotas, supported school busing for racial balance, founded the Environmental Protection Agency and vastly expanded the federal government's responsibility for workplace and consumer-product safety. His proposal for national health insurance was more radical than Hillary Clinton's. His wage and price controls were the most ambitious manipulation of the marketplace by government in peacetime history. He hugged Mao and Brezhnev with equal passion. He abandoned containment of the Soviet Union for a more conciliatory policy of detente. He opened up communist China to the West, and vice versa. Richard Nixon: a Democrat's dream president. Let's go to the audio tape This isn't entirely fair, of course -- not to Democrats and not to Nixon. Hamby's question is hard to dismiss, though,
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War The 1960s manifested a period of transformation and societal revolution for scores of citizens in the United States. The Civil Rights Movement was in full force, humans took the first steps on the moon, anguish concerning the murders of both President Kennedy and Dr. King Jr... Furthermore, the rising of countercultures, which facilitated communal living, hippies, drugs, and rock and roll. The Anti-War movement began and became the focal point of several university and college campuses where they protested the Vietnam War and The Draft. Antiwar demonstrations were going on across the country and the demonstration at Kent State University on May 04, 1970, had students assembled to protest the Vietnam War and the assault on Cambodia. In The Vietnam Era 1963 -1965 (2005), it was found James Rhodes the Ohio state Governor at the time called upon the U.S. National Guard with the purpose of putting an end to the demonstration and demanding the students to disband. The student protesters would not comply and the U. S. National Guard discharged weapons into the crowd of people gathered. This caused the death of four students and injuries to nine other students, some of which were students not even involved with the demonstration. This confrontation at Kent State became the fuel of the antiwar movement of the 1970s. Furthermore, In The Vietnam Era 1963 -1965 (2005),
Vietnam War.
Vietnam War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. It began as a determined attempt by Communist guerrillas (the so-called Vietcong) in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. The struggle widened into a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam and ultimately into a limited international conflict. The United States and some 40 other countries supported South Vietnam by supplying troops and munitions, and the USSR and the People's Republic of China furnished munitions to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. On both sides, however, the burden of the war fell mainly on the civilians. The war also engulfed Laos, where the Communist Pathet Lao fought the government from 1965 to 1973 and succeeded in abolishing the monarchy in 1975; and Cambodia, where the government surrendered in 1975 to the Communist Khmer Rouge. This article is concerned primarily with the military aspects of the war; for further discussion of the historical and political issues involved, see Vietnam: History. Vietnamese Independence Struggle (1945-1954). The war developed as a sequel to the struggle (1946-1954) between the French, who were the colonial rulers of Indo-China before World War II, and the Communist-led Vietminh, or League for the Independence of Vietnam, founded and headed by the revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh. Having emerged
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War "No 'healing', no apologies, no memorials, nothing can possibly compensate for the damage done and the pain inflicted....The only thing we can possibly do, twenty years too late, is to try and tell the truth." Eric Bergerud, Historian UC Berkely The problem is though, that there is no one truth about the Vietnam War, even more than two decades after America's intervention. Critics of the intervention claim that the war was unnecessary and immoral and also policymakers in Washington dragged the country into and unwanted war. A group of scholars and military leaders have contrasting ideas, providing a strong defense for the American intervention. Although there is a multitude of facts and sources, without a framework to place them into context understanding the war would be impossible. Even after a careful examination of all the information we have today, it would reveal neither view as entirely accurate. The Vietnam War was arguably the most traumatic experience for the United States considering a whole range of events including two world wars, assassinations of two presidents, the Great Depression, the Cold War, racial issues, etc... Examining the events of the war including the Tonkin Resolution, Ho Chi Minh trail and Tet Offense while analyzing US involvement in the war can help us understand more about the truth of the war and why it was considered one of
The Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a terrible war fought between the years of 1945 to 1975. Even though the war started in 1945, America did not enter the war until 1961. During 1945 World War II was nearing an end, the Japanese invaded Vietnam, kicked out the French colonial government, and seized control of Vietnam by controlling Bao Dai, the emperor of Vietnam. The history of Vietnam is filled with information, a few of those things would be: how it started, how the United States (U.S.) got involved, the different things that happened during the war, and how the war ended. On September 2, 1945, a scrawny man in a plain khaki tunic spoke before a crowd of half a million people at Ba Dinh square in Hanoi, Vietnam. That day, shops, offices, and schools had been closed for the occasion. Red flags and banners bearing nationalist slogans hung from city buildings as people crowded the streets chanting for a man walking towards the middle of the town to speak. The man, a Communist leader who had taken the name Ho Chi Minh ("he who enlightens"), declared Vietnam to be independent both of Japan and of France. His speech began with the words, "We hold truths that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."(Leone 15) These phrases borrowed from the Declaration of
Vietnam War.
VIETNAM WAR For much of Vietnam's history it has been under foreign rule, primarily by the Chinese. In 1860, France began its domination of the area and had, by the late 19th century, implemented its colonization in a number of regions around the Gulf of Tonkin. During WWII, the Japanese government took control of much of the area and set up a puppet regime that was eventually forced out by the Vietnamese at the end of that war in 1945. After WWII and until 1955, France fought hard to regain their former territories in the region, but with a poorly organized army and little determination among the troops, their efforts soon collapsed. The French were finally defeated at Dien Bien Phu on the 8th of May 1954 by the communist general Vo Nguyen Giap. The French troops withdrew, leaving a buffer zone separating the North and South and set up elections in order to form a government in the South. The communist regime set up its headquarters in Hanoi under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh. Many North Vietnamese left the country and fled south where the self-proclaimed president, Ngo Dinh Diem had formed the Republic of Vietnam. Between 1955 and 1960, the North Vietnamese with the assistance of the southern communist Vietcong, tried to take over the government in South Vietnam, and in November 1963 President Diem was overthrown and executed. The following year, the North Vietnamese
