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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anecdotes based on the history of one particular Vietnamese family.
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quotations from Vietnamese artists, politicians, and writers.
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excerpts from letters written by the National Liberation Front.
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historical facts about the conflict and the role played by the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The struggle for control of Vietnam, which had been a French colony since 1887, lasted for three decades. Both the United States and the Soviet Union regarded the conflict not as a civil war between North and South Vietnam but as a significant engagement of the Cold War in a strategic region.
Detailed explanation-2: -The hawks felt that the US needed to be involved in the Vietnam War in order to defeat communism and protect the US and its way of life. They believed anticommunist South Vietnam needed to be defended, as they worried about the domino effect and possible threats to America if communism were allowed to expand.
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: -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…