This war would be the Vietnam Revolution. ... After World War II and The Korean Conflict, the last thing U.S. citizens wanted was for the government to send troops into Vietnam. ... South Vietnam was aided by a coalition of forces including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. ... However, as they began to realize, this war was going be a long drawn out war. ... The growing anti-war movement alarmed the U.S. government, and eventually dictated the way the government ran the war. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This war was a war that they fought in their minds and in their hearts. ... In Korea this knowledge resulted in use, to some extent, of a "point system." ... One important fact about the Vietnam War was that it was America's first true integrated war. Women have fought in all of America's wars, even though it might have been unofficial in some of the earliest wars. ... In World War II and almost every other war in United States military history, our military was ...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. ... The French forced the Viet Minh into the country areas and first Indo-Chinese war had begun. ... In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. French troops were concentrated in fortresses in North Vietnam fighting a static war. ... French public opinion had long turned against the war and "sale guerre" ("dirty war") was on everyone's lips. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate