THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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repetition
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irony of situation
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onomatopoeia
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loaded language
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -The U.S. entered the Vietnam War in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism, but foreign policy, economic interests, national fears, and geopolitical strategies also played major roles.
Detailed explanation-4: -If we do not stop our war against the people of Vietnam immediately, the world will be left with no other alternative than to see this as some horrible, clumsy, and deadly game we have decided to play. The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve.