THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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promote democracy.
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protect profits and investments.
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help the downtrodden.
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conquer racism and materialism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -King came to view U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia as little more than imperialism. Additionally, he believed that the Vietnam War diverted money and attention from domestic programs created to aid the Black poor. Furthermore, he said, “The war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home…
Detailed explanation-2: -Declaring “my conscience leaves me no other choice, ” King described the war’s deleterious effects on both America’s poor and Vietnamese peasants and insisted that it was morally imperative for the United States to take radical steps to halt the war through nonviolent means (King, “Beyond Vietnam, ” 139).
Detailed explanation-3: -Later that year King framed the issue of war in Vietnam as a moral issue: “As a minister of the gospel, ” he said, “I consider war an evil. I must cry out when I see war escalated at any point” (“Opposes Vietnam War”).
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following is a logical reason King gives for taking a stand on Vietnam? The war is draining resources from programs that help the poor at home in the United States.