THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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because King’s name appeared as part of the military draft
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to show that U. S. Congress was spending more on military and less on anti-poverty programs
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to prove American tactics were the same as Nazis during World War II.
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He feels America does not have enough military power.
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Detailed explanation-1: -King opposed the Vietnam War because it took money and resources that could have been spent on social welfare at home. The United States Congress was spending more and more on the military and less and less on anti-poverty programs at the same time.
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.
Detailed explanation-3: -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”).