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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Burned their draft cards
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Did not show up for induction
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Fled the country
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -For young men like Jim Vacarella, the draft stood as the prime symbol of the war in Vietnam. Millions of young men tried to evade the draft: some fled to Canada; many feigned physical or mental illness, others used family connections to gain safe positions in the National Guard.
Detailed explanation-2: -American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the acronym BEAST-Bombing, Escalation, Air and artillery, Search and destroy and Technology.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to “expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".
Detailed explanation-4: -Why did they believe they would work? One strategy was “Search and Destroy” – US troops would go into the countryside to find and kill Viet Cong members. Another strategy was attrition – extend combat to inflict the most amount of enemies casualties thus forcing them to surrender.