Then in 1930 Trujillo ran against Horocio Vasquez for presidency, and fraudulently claimed ninety five percent of the votes. Once he was placed in power in 1931, he used The National Guard to terrorize and banished all civilian opponents (persons who were against him). Although the was a dictator, the also made some good changes to the country like, an increases on exports , the abolition of the 1905 treaty which gave the U.S control of the Dominican custom houses, and also, by 1947 the
The United States sent France about $2½ billion in military equipment, but the Vietnamese defeated the French in 1954. Then Vietnam was divided into North and South Vietnam. United States aid to France and later to non-Communist South Vietnam was based on a policy of President Harry S. Truman. He had declared that the United States must help any nation threatened by Communists. Truman's policy was adopted by the next three Presidents -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
It forced President Eisenhower, who would have preferred to do nothing, to take some action. In 1957 Eisenhower introduced the first Civil Rights Act since 1875. It set up a commission to prosecute anybody who tried to deny American citizens their rights. It attracted world-wide attention and was on television screens across the USA. When Faubus closed all the schools in Arkansas in September 1958, he was forced to reopen them to black and white students by the Supreme Court.
Of these captured rebels most of the leaders were put on show trials in Havana and executed and the rest were returned for $53 million in food and drugs from the United States (1). On December 29, 1962 a ceremony was held at the Orange Bowl for the returned exiles in which Kennedy promised that the exiles flag would someday fly over Havana and so far 48 years later it hasn’t happened (1). This disaster instead of destroying Kennedy led to his greatest triumph for which he is remembered: the Cuban Missile Crisis. After the failed invasion, the Soviet Union decided to protect Castro it would park intermediate range nuclear missile in Castro backyard within range of any US city. After the US discovered the presence of the missiles the US issued a naval quarantine of Cuba.
On April 15, Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the Southern rebellion, a move that prompted Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and North Carolina to reverse themselves and vote in favor of secession. (Most of the western section of Virginia rejected the session vote and broke away, ultimately forming a new, Union-loyal state, West Virginia.) The United States had always maintained only a small professional army; the nation’s founders had feared a Napoleon might rise up and use a large army to overthrow the government and make himself a dictator. Many graduates of the U.S. Army’s military academy, West Point, resigned their commissions in order to
On October 31, 1968, President Johnson announced a complete halt to the bombing of North Vietnam. On November 5, Nixon is elected President with Gerald Ford as his vice-president. (Leone 138) On March 15, 1969, Nixon found out that the Vietcong were hiding in Cambodia, so he ordered the immediate bombing of these sanctuaries, but because he was bombing sanctuaries, it was never released to the American public. (Prados 193) In May of 1969, American soldier commitment was at its peak at 543,000, also during May, President Nixon announced his first major troop withdrawal and pledged to replace the Selective Service Act with a lottery. In June Nixon announced that twenty-five thousand U.S. troops would be withdrawn and replaced by South Vietnamese soldiers.
Allowing President Johnson a free hand to send military supplies, including troops, to Vietnam ,the number of troops increased rapidly, reaching 385,000 in 1966 and 535,000 in 1968, total standing at 2.59 million Americans serving and 400 tons of bombs and ordinance per day in Vietnam from 1964 to 1975. As for the later issue, the president's administration disclosed the attack to the public, but chose not to retaliate. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution came around to control America's foreign relation policies. Concluding, The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a significant event in the fact that it opened the door to one of the most intense yet memorable wars in modern day history. God Bless those who
In 1955 Diem inaugurated a widespread Denunciation Campaign which limited communist influence in the south. This proved successful as 90% of Vietminh cells in the South were destroyed or forced underground. The rigged referendum of 1955 saw Diem replace Emperor Bao Dai as Head of State and the creation of the Republic of Vietnam. Diem also decided to refuse the nationwide elections in 1956 which could have resulted in victory for Ho Chi Minh. Diem was now in complete control of South Vietnam.
This continued throughout the years, alone in 1795 the US paid out more than a million dollars in cash and goods ransoms. This was the practice up until 1801 when Jefferson became President. When Jefferson took office Tripoli had demanded a payment of 225,000 USD up front and an annual stipend of 25,000 USD. Jefferson refused and Tripoli declared war on the United States. The war lasted 4 years and ended with a peace treaty.
Many people began to protest the U.S. government. Most of the protesters were young and born at the end, or after the Second World War In 1968, Nixon won the presidential election, due to because he said that he would “end the Vietnam War.” In 1969 there were over 500,000 American troops fighting in Vietnam. Nixon announced his policy, Vietnamization. This caused the U.S. making South Vietnamese army to be