Conscription in the United States

The ANZUS Treaty was signed in 1951 between Australia, New Zealand and the United States as a way to maintain order and peace within the pacific region. While the ANZUS Treaty has only been invoked once, Australian Foreign Policy from 1950s, and to extent foreign policy in general, has been tied to the needs of the United States. The Vietnam War was the first war without Britain as an ally and had a significant impact towards how the results of war related…

Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor!!!!! Dateline, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. Today, warplanes of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States Naval Station at Pearl Harbor. While the losses are not yet known in detail, estimates say that 2,400 service members were killed. Four battleships have been sunk with one of them, the Arizona, apparently damaged beyond hope of restoring her to service. The attack involved hundreds of airplanes and came in two, possible three organized…

In 1955, tensions between the political stance of the democratic South Vietnamese versus the communist Northern Vietnamese rise. Because of this, the United States of America enters the war to keep political democratic interests within Vietnam and fighting off the red communist terror. However, the United States lacked a consistent amount of voluntary troops, so president Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act. This act would pick men between ages eighteen to…

Compulsory military service would be a positive addition of responsibilities to our citizen body and would result in a safer, more responsible, and more united country. A population of generally well-trained and active people will do wonders for our general health and allow for a stronger, more vibrant nation that utilizes the potential and experience of its citizenry. Public service creates a channel by which Americans of all educational vocations and backgrounds can unite behind a common…

communism, many swore to do anything to stop its advance. This was the main priority for the United States after the end of World War II and the US and USSR quickly turned against each other now that they had no common enemy. The Korean War was an international conflict fought through the guise of a civil war between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the purpose of control over East Asia and…

d. NCSS Theme 5: Individuals, Groups, and Institutions; The students will learn about the various states, ethnic groups, alliance systems, and key individuals that altered the early twentieth century. e.…

During this time span the world began to change in major ways. For an example, the United States of America was in a ten year depression, Germany was in a state of an economic downfall leading to the rise of the Nazis power and the rule of Hitler, and other things around the world began to take place such as a European depression. Humanity began to be called out due to the…

Question 1: Many factors triggered World War I. One factor was militarism. Right before the war, each country was concerned about growing and perfecting their army and to do so spent a lot of money. Countries expanded their armies and with the use of conscription were able to double the size of their military. Many militaries also practiced brinksmanship (or brinkmanship) in order to show strength. Meaning, that each nation would go to war until the highest point of danger and back out right…

The shape of modern day Cuban society is undoubtedly and irreversibly built on the goal of withstanding imperialistic advances from the United States. Since the end of the 19th century, the United States has attempted to shape Cuba into an expendable asset that helps drive the economical wagon of the most powerful nation on earth. In this paper I will discuss the imperialistic endeavours America subjected Cuba to prior to the Cuban Revolution, how biased and misinformed reporting on Cuba has…

decade. Little were we to know as a nation that the significance of our experience in Vietnam over 50 years ago would still be felt in today’s society. There are many reasons why this is so, that I will outline below. Firstly, by accepting the United States (US) request to join the Vietnam War, Australia sent an international message that we supported our allies in the quest to destroy communism in South East Asia. At the time the world was very concerned that if communism took…