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Topic: Strategic Hamlet Program


  
 Vietnam War
The purpose of this program was to gradually transfer combat operations in Vietnam entirely to the South Vietnamese army.
The “Vietnamization” program was meant to implement Nixon’s 1968 campaign promise to bring the fighting to an “honorable” end.
NLF casualties as a result of the military failure of the Tet offensive, the various “pacification” programs conducted by the C.I.A. and the U.S. Army, and the ongoing bombing and defoliation efforts were enormous.
www.termpapers24.com /history/Vietnam%20War.htm   (6667 words)

  
 The US Advisory Experience -- 1954-1965
Write responses to the Study Questions for Readings and bring those responses to class the day for discussion of this topic.
Viet Minh-Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Collaboration of 1945.
It contains suggestions for further reading, related links, and introduces students to the 1995 and 1997 "reunions" and oral history project of Viet Minh and OSS veterans, still underway.
www.richmond.edu /~ebolt/history398/USAdvisoryExperience(1954-1965).html   (946 words)

  
 Shamash Book of the Month Archive
Black, a son of Holocaust survivors, is less tendentiously simplistic than Goldhagen, but his thesis is no less provocative: he argues that IBM founder Thomas Watson deserved the Merit Cross (Germany's second-highest honor) awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest customer on earth.
From Booklist May 15, 1999 Although really intended for parents to use with their children at a family Passover seder, this attractive book may also be useful to children wanting to plan their own model celebration.
These religious communities have attracted large numbers of worshipers with programs that seem both radical and commonsensical--"establishing public service opportunities such as a Jewish version of Habitat for Humanity," for instance, or encouraging worshipers to write their own prayer books.
www.shamash.org /books   (11746 words)

  
 Area Handbook Series/ Haiti (Dominican Republic and Haiti) / Bibliography
The Impact on the Poor of USAID's Private Sector Programs in the Dominican Republic: Final Report.
Congressional Presentation for Security Assistance Programs, Fiscal Year 1988.
Congressional Presentation for Security Assistance Programs, Fiscal Year 1990.
www.country-data.com /frd/cs/haiti/ht_bibl.html   (5406 words)

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