CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR Why was there a Vietnam War?? This question has been asked a lot of times since the war. ... The United States war in Vietnam had no beginning and it was a series of steps between 1950-1965 "in May 1950, President Harry S. ... The United States was now at War! Since there were so many starting points in the Vietnam War it complicated to say the causes of the U.S entry. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. ... Small begins his outline of the anti-war movement with what he calls the "Americanization of the war" when the majority of Americans were supportive of action in Vietnam. ... Despite popular support of the president, this early stage of the war was also the beginning of the anti-war movement as teach-...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the same time, the movement against the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war was beginning to gain national prominence. ... The stirrings of a possible war with Vietnam started began in 1962, when president JFK ordered military advisers to go to Vietnam in order to assist the south Vietnamese army in their attempt to overthrew the corrupt, oppressive and unpopular "Diem Regime". ... Which only escalated the war and lead to 400,000 US troops in Vietnam. ... This caused Anti-war movements to grow across the country. ... Now the ending of the war was in 1973 when Richard M. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Should America Participate in Foreign Wars or Affairs Since the beginning of time war has been a part of everyone's life. ... In 1964 the United States got involved in the Vietnam conflict. Even though it wasn't declared a war people called it a war anyway. ... Vietnam wasn't just a war but it was a turning point in a decade that would change America's outlook on the 60's There were also other conflicts in the 60's like the bay of pigs invasion. ... Which sometimes became really big things like Vietnam, but usually there only minor. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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This book starts talking about the beginning of the 1960s and how everyone seemed to have great expectations for better things to come. ... Around the mid-part, the Vietnam War and Civil rights are highly talked about. Also, there is discussion about President Johnson's Great Society (war on poverty, war on racism, Medicare, etc., which seemed to have good intentions, but rather unrealistic since poverty and racism seemed to continue even after the 1960s were long gone, and poor people seemed to find a reason not to improve themselves,(why bother trying to get a job when you can go on wel...

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"Once a man has been in politics, once that's been in his life, he will always return if the people want him." (Richard M. Nixon) Richard Nixon's the thirty seventh president of United States (1969-1974), was born in Yorba-Linda, CA in 1913. Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and D...

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• Grade Level: High School