THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
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Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, which showed that
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US government officials had been misleading the public about the Vietnam War for years
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US soldiers had killed hundreds of civilians at My Lai
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the North Vietnamese were winning the Vietnam War
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Henry Kissinger had met secretly with North Vietnamese officials
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Pentagon Papers revealed that the United States had expanded its war with the bombing of Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which had been reported by the American media.
Detailed explanation-2: -Howard Hunt. Cleared of wrongdoing, Ellsberg devoted the rest of his life to peace activism and academia. His books included Papers on the War (1972), Risk, Ambiguity, and Decision (an expanded treatment of his Ph. D.
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