USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bombarded by horrific images of the war on their televisions, Americans on the home front turned against the war as well: In October 1967, some 35, 000 demonstrators staged a massive Vietnam War protest outside the Pentagon.

Detailed explanation-2: -American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the acronym BEAST-Bombing, Escalation, Air and artillery, Search and destroy and Technology.

Detailed explanation-3: -hippie, also spelled hippy, member, during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two years after the withdrawal of the last United States combat troops, North Vietnamese Army (NVA) tanks and soldiers rolled into Saigon. Within days, the US-backed South Vietnamese government turned on its heels and fled, its leaders spirited out of the country with American help.