THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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an end to the war in Vietnam
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acceptance of President Johnson’s Vietnam policies
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more aid to South Vietnam
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the nomination of Hubert Humphrey
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Yippies took a radical approach to the Democratic National Convention. They wrote articles, published fliers, made speeches and held rallies and demonstrations, to announce that they were coming to Chicago.
Detailed explanation-2: -Surrounded by reporters on August 23, 1968, Yippie leader Rubin, folk singer Phil Ochs, and other activists held their own presidential nominating convention with their candidate Pigasus, an actual pig. When the Yippies paraded Pigasus at the Civic Center, ten policemen arrested Ochs, Rubin, Pigasus, and six others.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chicago Mayor Richard Daley deployed 12, 000 police officers and called in another 15, 000 state and federal officers to contain the protesters. The situation then rapidly spiraled out of control, with the policemen severely beating and gassing the demonstrators, as well as newsmen and doctors who had come to help.
Detailed explanation-4: -Multiple factors created the protests in 1968. Many were in response to perceived injustice by governments-in the USA, against the Johnson administration-and were in opposition to the draft, and the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War.