THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Tens of thousands of American soldiers had been killed in the War
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the South Vietnamese people did not want the Americans in Vietnam
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President Nixon expanded the war into Cambodia
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Vietnam War protests began among peace activists and leftist intellectuals on college campuses, but gained national prominence in 1965, after the United States began bombing North Vietnam in earnest.
Detailed explanation-3: -They fought a hit-and-run guerrilla war against inexperienced American soldiers, many of whom were young conscripts. The threat of an invisible enemy and hidden traps like punji sticks – sharpened sticks of bamboo which were laid in traps-had a demoralising psychological impact on US troops.
Detailed explanation-4: -Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.