USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

THE VIETNAM WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything on a society gone mad on war.” What does the word eviscerated mean?
A
to changed into something else.
B
to take away a vital or essential part.
C
it can no longer be seen.
D
to compact it into a smaller component.
Explanation: 

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: -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: -Martin built his speech that night, Neal, around three major points: around increasing militarism, around escalating poverty and around the issue of racism. And he said these three issues of racism and poverty and militarism are going to destroy this nation.

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.

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