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The Tet Offensive, a turning point ? The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968. The Vietcong and the North Vietnam Army (NVA) fought against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and the United States. The purpose of the offensive was to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government, thus ending the war

becomes part of Spain‟s Empire    Local people (“Indians”) dominated by European military superiority Many conflicts, and diseases Spanish looking for gold in America The Terrible Story of the „New World‟   Before colonization: 10 million people, 200 tribes In 1865: only 300,000 remained… After the Protestant Reformation, England begins to explore America   1587: Spanish military power declining, England begins to explore and colonize America First British “settlements”

then, it was overwhelming. Part of the experience was realizing that the USA was on the wrong side. Fine speeches at the United Nations were one thing, but the directory board in the lobby of the American Embassy in Pretoria, with its long list of military attachés, told a different story. […] Learning something of the cooperation between the USA and the white regime in South Africa […] was my first lesson that America was not always the noble force for freedom I wanted it to be. A few years afterwards

htm#photo 1) This mural represents The UFF (Ulster Freedom Fighters): The UFF is a cover-name used by the UDA and as such the UFF could draw on the support of one of the largest Loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland/ it’s the unionist military group for the UDA to defend Protestants from acts of Irish Republican Violence over 30 years of conflict. The UFF was formed in 1973. 2) This document is a mural who takes place in Belfast (in Northern Ireland). 04 Snugville St, Belfast, 1994

establishment of the "Democratic Republic of Vietnam". This called for under President Ho Chi Minh, the founder and leader of the Communist-oriented "League for the Independence of Vietnam, the Viet Minh, the full sole for all of Vietnam and called out to a military conflict with France, which wanted to restore its colonial rule in Indochina . The war broke out in November 1946, when French warships bombarded the port city of Haiphong, after the Vietminh, the French demand after deducting all of its troops had

IRAN: NUCLEAR CRISIS AND PERSIAN TURNEMANTS Niki PAPADOPOULOU Geopolitics IRAN: NUCLEAR CRISIS AND PERSIAN TURNEMANTS Because of the immense military power she can offer, the political control of nuclear weapon is a key issue for the geopolitical negotiations. The entry of Iran to the rank of nuclear power is a nightmare for a lot of western countries. Instability in the Middle East, the higher oil price, the persistent terrorist risks: the Iranian nuclear crisis is a new factor of tension

monetary fund. The American point of view prevailed during the negotiation. Accounting for the influence of the American economy in the western world, then the reasons were military. The US emerged as the great beneficiary of the conflict because its contribution to the victory of the allies had been crucial. More evidences of its military power was given when president Truman who took over from ( qui avait pris le relai) president Roosevelt when the latter (ce dernier) died in the 1945 gave the order of

septembre 2001 Introduction : September 11, 2001 The attacks of September 11, 2001 is the founding myth from which the Anglo-Saxons justify their military hypertrophy. In a world where no State seeks to compete with them, they invented an imaginary enemy and invisible unrivaled power: terrorism. It is therefore not possible to challenge this global military dominance without questioning the government version of the attacks of Sept. 11, and the very existence of an alleged conspiracy Islamic world.

collapse In the 1980s, the United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures against the USSR, which had already, went through severe economic stagnation. Thereafter, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of perestroika ("reconstruction", "reorganization", 1987) and glasnost ("openness", ca. 1985). The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, leaving the United States as the dominant military power, and Russia possessing most of the Soviet Union's nuclear

l'Université de New York en 1958 et était C auto-admis font la moyenne l'étudiant. Il a pu plus tard gagner un degré(diplôme) de Master en administration des entreprises de George Washington l'Université en 1971, après son deuxième tour au Viêt-Nam. Military career Powell described joining the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) during college as one of the happiest experiences of his life; discovering something he loved and could do well, he felt he had "found himself." Cadet Powell joined the