The United States was directly involved in the Vietnam War from 1964 through 1974. ... (Compton's) By the end of 1965, 40,000 troops a month were being drafted and sent to Vietnam to fight in the war. ... (Krepinevich 234) As the war in Vietnam progressed, President Johnson perceived the need to send more American troops and finally declared war against the communist North Vietnamese. ... A poll taken in 1964 revealed that 50% of the public was dissatisfied with the handling of the war in Vietnam. ... The war in Vietnam was an unpopular war that was not supported by many American...

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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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Kerry, Paul Potter, and Martin Luther King all identify the larger social issues that they felt were reflected in the Vietnam War. ... Martin Luther King begins his speech by identifying seven main concerns that he has about the war in Vietnam. ... Kerry says that he feels ashamed to have fought in the Vietnam War because of how negatively received war veterans are by the people of our country. ... He claims this is a problem right here, that the United States could not even admit that they made a mistake in going to war, and only went to war to help ourselves, not South Vietnam. ... Thes...

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This book was the first book that dealt with Vietnam reasonably and it gave people a sense of what the war was like. ... Once he returned home, he was sent back to Vietnam, but this time he was a consultant for the Chicago Tribune. A Rumor of War was an amazing book that went into detail about Vietnam. ... Vietnam helped The United States learn their lesson sooner, rather than later. ... There were two villains in Vietnam, one being the Viet Cong and the other the weather. ...

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Nixon, felt that the war should be ended by turning over most of the fighting to the troops in Vietnam and start withdrawing troops more gradually. ... 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, wi...

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Johnson made his decision to Americanize the war in July. ... Tonight, I renew the offer I made last August-to stop the bombardment of North Vietnam. ... The area in which we are stopping our attacks includes almost 90 percent of North Vietnam's populated areas, or in the food-producing areas of North Vietnam . ... LBJ believed that removing himself from the presidential race would ruin the passage of his domestic programs, help resolve the Vietnam War, and "heal" the wounds now separating the country (Joseph A. ... I believe I did this through the struggles of the Vietnam War. ...

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The war showed that cooperation between government and business could enrich the people and all aspects of economy. ... (10) Johnson's Vietnam mission report reflected the third tenet of postwar liberalism; to defend the freeworld from communist expansion. ... First, he "underestimated the expense of leading a two-front war in Vietnam" (Schulman 101). Johnson thought that he could fund the Great Society at home, as well as support the war against communism in Vietnam; later he regretted leaving the "lady he loved" for the war in Vietnam. ... (15) There were two differences between th...

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Military troops can be sent anywhere at anytime in the event of war. ... World War II was a great example of how war boosts the economy, and how quickly the US can get out of a depression. ... When Kennedy took the presidency, the situation in Vietnam had not yet escalated into an all out war. ... Kennedy did not see Vietnam is a danger to democracy in America. He did not share the notion that Vietnam was a "holy crusade" against the "evil empire." ...

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Nixon decided that he did not want the Vietnam war to become a campaign issue; but he did pledge to end the war if he was elected. ... President Richard Nixon inherited a country at war, aggravation, and violence. His goal was to get all US troops out of Vietnam. ... However, people back in the United States saw this as expansion of the war. ... During the era of the Vietnam war, there was a nation wide student protest. ...

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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".) ... 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 that he would put and end to the crisis and pursue peace and social and economic stability to Vietnam despite the circumstances (Goodwin, Doris 267.) ... For example, in October 19...

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The cold war was a long and tense time in American and European history. ... We were also tested in many ways: the Korean and Vietnam wars, the bloody wars for independence in countries such as Indonesia and Angola, and my current topic, the Cuban missile crisis. Of all the situations during the cold war, none of them ranks as high as the missile crisis, in its intensity and proximity. It's quite honestly the closest we got to an actual war in the cold war, and it tested the lines drawn by the two colliding superpowers of the world at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union. ......

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He wouldn't attack Russia nor would he agree to enter Vietnam, which many of his adversaries and supporters believed he should. ... The government knew exactly what they had to do to get their war. ... War is what it is all about in the world today. ... The government killed their own president and covered it up because of war. ... Kennedy saved us from war with Russia, Cuba and also would have saved the nation of the disastrous Vietnam War. ...

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John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), the 35th president of the United States (1961-1963), was the youngest person ever to be elected president. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. His broth...

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Many right-wing activists and conservatives detested Kennedy for his liberal civil rights and anti-Vietnam policies, just to name a few. Kennedy did not want the Vietnam conflict to carry out into a long war, while many conservatives as well as many in the government, such as Johnson, supported the war against communism. ...

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However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the Soviet Union, which was aggravated by the U-2 incident, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis, along with the space race with the USSR. The decade ended under the shadow of the Vietnam war, which deeply divided Americans and their allies and damaged the country's self-confidence and sense of purpose. ... Hippies,...

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JFK's pragmatic approach in dealing with the USSR led to the outcome of events related to the Cold War in the early 1960's. ... In hindsight Kennedy's caution during the crisis saved the United States from possible nuclear war, but the gamble he took was huge. ... In 1961 the North Vietnamese began developing a supply line through Laos into South Vietnam. ... In fairness to both sides, the Cold War was full of deceptions and misjudgments on both sides. ... The Cold War was essentially a game of "chicken-. ...

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The Vietnam War had begun, and President Johnson was declining in popularity because of his determined effort to escalate the war (Lindop 126). Kennedy was opposed to the war, and he became an outspoken critic who began many antiwar protests. ... The opinion of many Americans is expressed in the following statement made by Edward Kennedy at Robert=s funeral procession: My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop...

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Another important factor was his heroic effort in World War II. ... Evidence also shows that he seemed to be keen on South Vietnam and "there is a case to be made that Kennedy had turned the corner on civil rights after Birmingham" but there is no way to tell if he could have got a bill that controversial through Congress (Greene 38). ...

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The mob was on the run as the Kennedy administration had began to wage war on organized crime, they were in a self-defense mode along with the banks and industries they controlled. ... The military was incensed in the late 1963 when Kennedy let it be known that he planned to withdraw all U.S. military personnel from Vietnam. ...

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This in tern will make the general public less sensitive to things such as war, finding it commonplace for people to be hurt and killed. ... Exposing people to what was really going on in Vietnam and what happened in the Watergate scandal. ...

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