THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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critics of the war who wanted the U.S. to pull out of Vietnam
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college protesters who had dodged the draft
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President Johnson’s advisers on the war
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minority leaders who called for an overhaul of the draft
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Detailed explanation-1: -Definition. 1. A person who opposed the vietnam war and believed that the United States should withdraw from it. 2.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The doves were largely younger people, especially college students. The doves preached messages of peace and love. In their eyes, the war was unjust and was killing thousands of young American men only to help the profits of US companies.
Detailed explanation-4: -War hawks are the opposite of doves. The terms are derived by analogy with the birds of the same name: hawks are predators that attack and eat other animals, whereas doves mostly eat seeds and fruit and are historically a symbol of peace.