Prior to the Vietnam War, the use of the helicopter had been limited to transporting the wounded from the battlefield. ... The war traced its origins to before the Cold War and even before World War II. ... A war of guerillas and insurgents, a war fought in ambushes not traditional combat. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prolonged United States involvement the number of people against it grew. ... The Vietnam War was the first war in the history of the United States to be fought on foreign and domestic soil at the same time. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Humphrey McCarthy would become a strong runner during the beginning of the campaign and then would start to fold over during the end of the election. ... During the election race, McCarthy would be most concerned with the war in Vietnam, calling it illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional. ... McCarthy would make reference to the war as still having to do with the Cold War, which he said was over now and Vietnam did not have to be fought, at all. ... Kennedy and McCarthy would show difference in their campaigns when it came to the war in Vietnam. Kennedy would call for the war to be ended,...

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An investigation into Watergate was starting and in the beginning Woodward and Bernstien had their doubts that the whole truth would not be revealed. ... During this time the U.S. was involved in the Vietnam War. In America at the time there were many Anti-war protests and formations of groups like the New Left. ... Government because they would not back out of Vietnam. ...

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Johnson encountered one of his biggest obstacles in 1959 when the Vietnam War had begun as a result of Communist-led nationalists rising to opposition to the government in South Vietnam (Encarta 2001, "Johnson, Lyndon Baines".) ... Right from the beginning, John inherited from the Eisenhower administration that the United States would not permit South Vietnam to fall to Communism (Goodwin, Doris 253.) ... That was the only event that occurred before Johnson was fully in support of the Vietnam War and increased military involvement. After months upon months of brutal war, Johnson resolved tha...

• Word Count: 1501
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate