THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Doves
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Viet Cong
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Silent Majority
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Communists
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Silent Majority was mostly populated by blue collar white people who did not take an active part in politics: suburban, exurban and rural middle class voters. They did, in some cases, support the conservative policies of many politicians.
Detailed explanation-2: -Who were known as the “great silent majority"? the middle-class Americans whose votes had brought Richard Nixon to the presidency.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term “silent majority"-to refer to Conservative voters who do not participate in the public discourse-later resurfaced in the political campaigns of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
Detailed explanation-4: -The north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist states, while the south was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. The war is widely considered to be a Cold War-era proxy war.