Nixon in China

réalisée en 2002, par John Adams. C'est un compositeur américain né en 1947, il est aussi chef d'orchestre. Sa particularité est de composé à partir d'évènement réels de l'histoire contemporaine. Il s'inspire souvent des sujets d'actualités. Nixon in China et The Death of Klinghoffer sont d'autres composition de cet auteur. "On the transmigration of souls" fut conçue « en hommage aux héros et à la mémoire des victimes » des attentats contre le World Trade Center du 11 septembre 2001, c'est

Nam at the end of WWII & the Global situation in the late 50s. Viet Nam was first a French colony. After WWI, Japan wanted to spread its Empire to all Asia, including Viet Nam. When the Japanese were defeated after WWII, they proclaimed Viet Nam an independent country: Indochina war began between France and Viet Nam (with the creation of Viet Minh, a League for Viet Nam independence including the Communist Party which leader was Ho Chi Minh). In 1954, France surrendered and Viet Nam was divided

Conference Cold War Begins 1945: August 6 -- United States first used atomic bomb in war 1945: August 8 -- Russia enters war against Japan 1945: August 14 -- Japanese surrender End of World War II 1946: March -- Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech 1947: March -- Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War 1947: June -- Marshall Plan is announced 1948: February -- Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia 1948: June 24 -- Berlin Blockade begins 1949: July -- NATO ratified

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Institut für Politische Wissenschaft Hauptseminar: Die Rolle des Kongresses in der amerikanischen Außenpolitik Dozent: Seminarleiter: PD Franz-Josef Meiers Sommersemester 2009 The Congress and the Vietnam War Vorgelegt von: Ngansop Adrien Henkestrasse 38, Zimmer 302 91054 Erlangen Polwiss/Dipl. 7 Mailto: adriennoo@yahoo.fr 1 Contents: IIIIIIIV- Introduction Prehistory The first phase, 1946-1954 (French phase) Second phase 1964-1973 (American stage) Phase three:

position on the Pacific facing China than by our position on the Atlantic facing Europe,” said the American president (Barack OBAMA) as he contemplated the extraordinary commercial opportunities that were opening up in Asia. More than a hundred years after Theodore ROOSEVELT made this prediction, American leaders are again looking across the Pacific to determine their own country’s future, and that of the rest of the world. Rather later than Roosevelt expected, China has become an inescapable part

said in the imperialist media about the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution, especially considering that one-fifth of the world's people live in China and that it has become the manufacturing hub for much of the globe. If you added up all the people of North, Central and South America, plus the Caribbean—in other words, all the 38 countries of the Western Hemisphere--you would still need to add 400 million more people to reach the size of China. And the many different peoples in China all

1955 lösten die USA Frankreich als Schutzmacht in Süd-Vietnam ab. Mit amerikanischer Rückendeckung errichtete Ngo Dinh Diem ein autoritäres Regime, unterdrückte jede Art von Opposition, baute eine starke Armee auf. Ab 1957 begann der südvietnamesische Vietcong ("vietnamesische Kommunisten") gegen Diems Regime und auch gegen amerikanische Militäreinrichtungen mit Guerillaaktionen vorzugehen. 1960 schuf sich der Vietcong in der "Nationalen Befreiungsfront von Süd-Vietnam" (Front National de Libération

UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL FACULTÉ DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE ET DE DROIT DÉPARTEMENT DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE Le bluff nucléaire de Nixon : Un pari risqué pour dénouer une crise sans issue Présenté à l’Université du Québec à Montréal comme exigence du séminaire de maîtrise POL 8411 Au Professeur Charles-Philippe David Par Frédéric Morier 27 décembre 2005 1) Introduction………….…………………………………………………………………………... 3 1.1. Problématique, hypothèse et variables sous-jacentes ………….…………………………

The 6 days War completely changed the geopolitics situation in the Middle East; Israel demonstrated that it was not only able, but also willing, to initiate strategic strikes that could change the regional balance. Israel had seized the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank of the Jordan River (including East Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights. In the summer of 1967, Arab leaders met in Khartoum in response to the war, to discuss the Arab position toward Israel. They reached consensus that

was a second phase of fighting in Vietnam. In 1946 Vietnam was part of the colony of French Indochina and the Vietnamese fought for their independence. The United States provided military equipment, but the French were defeated in 1954. Vietnam was then divided into North and South Vietnam.   Communists saw the Vietnam War as an extension of their struggle with France, as another attempt by a foreign power to rule Vietnam, and as a war of national liberation. China and the Soviet Union supported