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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was
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was not
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Reserve Office Training Corps, or ROTC, became the focus both for those who supported and those who opposed American involvement in Vietnam, and some college administrations were forced to drop ROTC to avoid violent confrontation. Here, the issue of ROTC is debated on a Newberry College bulletin board in 1970.
Detailed explanation-2: -Overview. The student movement arose to demand free speech on college campuses, but as the US involvement in the Vietnam war expanded, the war became the main target of student-led protests.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many Americans opposed the war on moral grounds, appalled by the devastation and violence of the war. Others claimed the conflict was a war against Vietnamese independence, or an intervention in a foreign civil war; others opposed it because they felt it lacked clear objectives and appeared to be unwinnable.
Detailed explanation-4: -The student strike of 1970 was a massive protest across the United States, that included walk-outs from college and high school classrooms initially in response to the United States expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Nearly 900 campuses nationwide participated.