The U.S. decided that Diem's actions could not be tolerated and Diem was killed on November 1st, 1963 by his own military generals. Then, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and Lyndon B. Johnson took his place. When Ngo Dinh Diem was alive the South was unstable, until June 1965 when Nguyen Cao Ky became president. President Lyndon B. Johnson raised the level of U.S. involvement in the war. On August 7th, 1964, the U.S. Senate approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave President Johnson the choice to escalate U.S. involvement in the war for what happened to the USS Maddox, w. America needed to act fast, but by 1965 Viet Cong controlled about 60 percent of South Vietnamese land.
The coup de Brumaire organisation and execution collectively was a confused affair. The Coup de Brumaire ultimately overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and it was substituted with the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. The event is often viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution. The coup was successful as it resulted in Directory was overthrown and replaced with the Consulate and Napoleon, the young genius who’d had great military success on behalf of the French government overseas (e.g. in Egypt) of a military dictatorship was in power which continued for fifteen years.
In 1966, the dream of flourishing democracy was diminished when a series of massacres occurred, inter-country arguments came about, and a military coup started the first of a series of military governments. As a response to this take over, the Ibo seceded and declared the independent republic of Biafra. This secession began a civil war that lasted for almost 3 years. Nigeria won the war and the military government controlled both regions. BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://www.southernct.edu/organizations/hcr/2002/nonfiction/colonialism.htm http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0860005.html http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=99387 http://www.khilafah.com/index.php/analysis/africa/10451-nigeria-50-years-of-
This decade started with the invasion of Kuwait by Sadam Hussein and the Gulf War. On January 12, 1991 the United States authorized the use of force by military means to push Iraq out of the country of Kuwait. The votes in the Senate and House of Representatives were very close and had not been that close in margin since the War of 1812 (American History.com). In 1993 the United States was involved in war with the African country of Somalia in an attempt to overthrow General Adid. By September 1994, we were at war once again to overthrow another dictatorship in Haiti.
“Baby Doc” In the article, “Baby Doc Gets Charged, But Duvalierism Remains Alive in Haiti”, there are many different elements to consider. Baby Doc returned to Haiti on Sunday the 16th. He is the exiled former dictator of Haiti. While ruling Haiti, from 1971 to 1986. He probably thought now would be the best time to get back into Haiti, because of earthquake recovery, a cholera epidemic, and a presidential election crisis.
A Covenant Broken: The story of from 1979 to 1990, touching upon their policies, politics, and their utter disregard for the natural human rights of their citizens Most people are familiar with the story of U.S. intervention in Nicaragua during the late 1970s and 80s. In 1979, Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza was overthrown by the Sandinistas, a Marxist coalition comprised mainly of renegade militarists and guerillas. The Sandinistas rose to power with the promise of healing Nicaragua's tattered social, economic, and political structures. However, when it became increasingly clear that the Sandinistas were not going to live up to their promise, U.S. President Ronald Reagan condemned the Sandinistas for plotting to promote Marxism to other Latin American countries. Since the 1950s, the U.S. had been embroiled in a notorious "Cold War" with the communist Soviet Union, and by the time Reagan became president, Cold War tensions had reached their highest.
In January 1964, the President declared his “unconditional war on poverty” with the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. This law created Community Action Programs, which aimed to help those who found themselves below the poverty line. Moreover, the administration established the Job Corps to train recent male high-school graduates for skilled employment. Recognizing hunger as a serious issue of his time, President Johnson proposed the Food Stamp Act of 1964, which launched nationally the next year. The President also revisited a tax cut that was originally proposed by the Kennedy administration but shot down by conservatives, as they believed it would raise the federal deficit.
President Kennedy was entirely responsible for American involvement in Vietnam? How far do you agree with Carters interpretation of Kennedy’s foreign policy? I disagree that John Kennedy was entirely responsible for American involvement in Vietnam, as before Kennedy even came into power, by the end of his presidency, Eisenhower had already got the United States involved, by giving support to the French military attempts, and by injecting billions of US dollars into the unpopular Diem government. This huge commitment had already made it harder for the USA to pull out; they had made obligations to prop up a democratic government, and this obligation would follow onto Kennedy and Johnson. Charles de Gaulle said in 1961 "The more you become involved out there against Communism, the more the Communists will appear as champions of national independence… you will sink step by step into a bottomless military and political quagmire, however much you spend in men and money" Eisenhower had already begun the sinking process, and Kennedy would act as a catalyst for a further descent.
He became prime minister in 1987, shortly before ousting Tunisia's first post-independence ruler, Habib Bourguiba, in a bloodless palace coup. President Bourguiba was declared mentally unfit to rule. Ben Ali promised a gradual transition towards democracy, though in his first two presidential polls - in 1989 and 1994 - he was elected unopposed. When multi-party presidential elections were introduced in 1999 they were still one-sided affairs, with Ben Ali winning huge majorities. The constitution was changed twice so he could continue to serve.
The slaves demanded independence and rebelled in Saint Domingue. Collecting an army of his own more than 1,000 men joined forces of the educated slave Toussaint. In pursuit of independence for slaves, he fought for a decade against the French, British, Spaniards and various mulatto groups. By 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte’s army invaded Saint Dominique where L’Ouverture was captured and deported to France where he died in 1803. The Haitian revolution continued under his lieutenants Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christopher, where a combination of slave strength and yellow fever defeated the massive French army.