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5 days ago · During an epoch of profound social upheaval and generational defiance, the late 1960s bore witness to the rising crescendo of voices against the Vietnam War—a conflict that had swept through...
5 days ago · During the late 1960s, when protests against the Vietnam War erupted across the country, college campuses emerged as places of more than intellectual debate over U.S foreign policy and the country ...
5 days ago · Richard Nixon’s election and subsequent failure to curtail U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam led, by the fall of 1969, to mass demonstrations and protests by UNC-Chapel Hill students. By the spring of 1970, class boycotts targeting the U.S. war effort had become significant, and student protests culminated in a strike by graduate ...
- Sarah Carrier
- 2015
May 26, 2024 · One of the attractions was a role-playing exercise where a small group of student volunteers would adopt the roles of members of the National Security Council at key watershed moments in the development of the First and Second Indochina Wars.
6 days ago · Good starting point. Vietnam: A Country Study - A detailed history of Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and the country of Vietnam. Documents of the Vietnam War - Statements, reports, proposals, letters, and other primary sources of the Vietnam War arranged in chronological order. Vassar College.
- Jennifer King
- 2013
4 days ago · The outcome of the 1991 Gulf War restored the American belief in the efficacy of military force as a tool of foreign policy that had been shaken by the Vietnam War and set the stage for a rematch with Saddam Hussein in 2003, the consequences of which are still with us.
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5 days ago · The Vietnam War took millions of people from their lives and into the arena of war and expected them to kill, and this had a deeply radicalizing impact. Across the war two million people were drafted and over 40,000 Americans were killed – this was disproportionately borne by the working class and poor, since full-time college students were ...
