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[376] The United States would face the same problem in the War in Iraq under President George W. Bush (Bush number 2).
[377] UH stood for Utility Helicopter. The troops nicknamed it the Huey. It was the “jeep” of modern warfare.
[378] The neighboring nations to both Vietnams and controlled by the Communist along the area of the trail.
[379] Giap was the overall communist military commander for North Vietnam.
[380] It should be well noted that other nations were in Vietnam. Australia, for example, perceived it was in their national interest to keep communism as far away from them as possible and so assisted in the war.
[381] By 1972, only sixty-nine thousand US Troops were in Vietnam. South Vietnam held out longer than normally remembered.
[382] The former secretary of defense who figured largely in starting and managing the war in Vietnam under Kennedy and Johnson. McNamara was one of the reasons the war was fought so poorly.
[383] Proof that Clausewitz was right when he said war was political (a continuation of policy by other means).
[384] Kennedy and Nixon bookended another US endeavor, the race to the moon. Kennedy announced it was Americans’ goal to reach the moon by the end of the decade. When the landing was made, Nixon was president.
[385] An estimated 1.7 million people were killed by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge. The estimate is probably low.
[386] For an excellent Post-modern view of history read The Times History of the World, by Richard Overy, 2008, Times Books. Especially interesting are pages xviii and xix where historical theory is discussed from the Greeks to the Post-modern era. Overy does not say his view is Post-modern; however, when he says there are no true turning points in history, and progress is a false concept, he is adopting the Post-modern view of no mega-narratives, or no overarching patterns.
[387] The branch of philosophy studying the nature of knowledge and in particular its foundations, scope, and validity.
[388] Note that rationalism sounds a lot like Descartes, and empiricism sounds a lot like objectivism.
[389] Notice the West had not adopted eastern ideas of totalitarian governments and individual subservience to the state. If we do not adopt their ideas, why do we believe they will adopt ours?
[390] Isa 65:20. When it speaks of easily living past 100, the era spoken of is thought to be in the millennium, after the return of Christ.
[391] I say “seems” because most of this is contained in the book of Revelations, and this last book of the Bible is exceedingly hard to decipher.
Table of Contents
Cover Page
The Super Summary of World History
Copyright Page
Contents
Time Line of World History
Introduction
Dedications
Chapter 1: Prehistory 150,000 BC to 3,500 BC (approximate)
Chapter 2: Ancient History 8000 BC to AD 455
Chapter 3: The Dark Ages 455 to 1400
Chapter 4: The Renaissance 1300 to 1500
Chapter 5: The Age of Discovery 1463 to 1522
Chapter 6: The EAST
Chapter 7: Africa
Chapter 8: The Middle East and the Fall of Byzantium (The Eastern Roman Empire) 500 to 1453
Chapter 9: The New World and the Rise of America
Chapter 10: Europe from the Renaissance to 1900
Chapter 11: America and the Americas
Chapter 12: 1900: The Dividing Line to the Modern World
Chapter 13: The First World War 1914 to 1918
Chapter 14: The Interwar Years 1919 to 1939
Chapter 15: World War II 1939 to 1945
Chapter 16: The Cold War 1945 to 1989
Chapter 17: The Korean War
Chapter 18: The Vietnam War
Chapter 19: The Postmodern World . . . or Not?
Online Sources
Table of Figures
Endnotes