THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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racial segregation prevented them from even attending school together.
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people were able to watch the war on the evening news on TV.
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many of the young men recruited for the war were from wealthy families.
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most of the ground troops in Vietnam came from poor families.
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dr. King in a March 25, 1967 antiwar march in Chicago. Titled “Beyond Vietnam, ” it was his first major speech on the war in Vietnam-what the Vietnamese aptly call the American War. King linked the escalating U.S. commitment to that war with its abandonment of the commitment to social justice at home.
Detailed explanation-3: -The original intent behind Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech was an appeal to end economic and employment inequalities. King believed the market operation of the American economy propagated unemployment, discrimination, and economic injustice.
Detailed explanation-4: -I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.