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	Vietnam War - MSN Encarta
		Students and professors began to organize “teach-ins” on the war in early 1965 at the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at Berkeley.
		Labor unions were also becoming increasingly militant in opposition to the war, as they were forced to respond to the concerns of their members that the draft was imposing an unfair burden on working-class people.
		The national organization, Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), has become one of the most important service organizations lobbying in Washington, D.C. Also in the capital, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in 1982 to commemorate the U.S. personnel who died or were declared missing in action in Vietnam.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552642_4/Vietnam_War.html (3320 words)

	Vietnam War History
		The protest movement in opposition to the Vietnam War was a complex amalgam of political, social, economic, and cultural motivations, factors, and events.
		The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was a military component of the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam).
		Vietnam brought a new dimension to the Cold War -- and forced the United States to rethink its goals in the superpower rivalry.
	www.vietnamwar.net /history.htm (1314 words)

	Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vietnam War, sometimes known as the Vietnam Conflict, was a conflict in which the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV or North Vietnam) and its allies fought against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) and its allies.
		Many Westerners consider the Vietnam War a "proxy war," one of several that occurred during the Cold War between the United States and its Western allies on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and/or the People's Republic of China on the other.
		As dictated by the Geneva Accords of 1954, the division of Vietnam was meant to be temporary, pending free elections for a national leadership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnam_war (11839 words)

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		Vietnam appeared to be the war that just would not end; and when it did end, the cries of “No more Vietnam’s” were far reaching.
		In 1954, Vietnam was divided into two parts; North Vietnam remained communist and continued to be led by Ho Chi Minh; Ngo Dinh Diem became president of the new republic of South Vietnam.
		Throughout the course of the Vietnam War, domestic opposition to the war was an issue.
	www.towson.edu /polsci/irencyc/T9840226/test.htm (1698 words)

	Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unidentified victims of the communist occupation of Hue are buried
		With the fall of Da Nang, the defense of the Central Highlands and northern provinces collapsed.
		Vietnam withdrew its army from Cambodia and Laos, which greatly improved its international image.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnam_War (11857 words)

	Vietnam Memorial.com: The Vietnam War. The Vietnam War. The Vietnam War. Vietnam Memorial.com
		Vietnam was under French control at that time (as was Laos and Cambodia), and the Vietnamese, under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, wanted independence.
		North Vietnam, who had hoped for a quick victory early on, then realized that such a victory was not possible, so they adopted a "protracted war strategy"; that is, they hoped to drag the war out as long as possible and cause the U.S. to eventually pullout.
		Finally, in 1972, peace agreements talks between the U.S. and Vietnam were nearing a conclusion, but in December of 1972, Nixon called for heavy bombing of the largest cities of North Vietnam (later known as the Christmas bombings).
	www.vietnammemorial.com /vietnam-war.html (768 words)

	Vietnam Yesterday & Today: Chronology of U.S. Vietnam Relations, Timeline
		The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, "The Wall," is dedicated in Washington, D.C. Vietnam begins cooperation with United States to resolve fate of American servicemen missing in action (MIA).
		Vietnam celebrates the 20th anniversary of the end of the war.
		Vietnam's Le Van Bang is confirmed as Vietnam's ambassador to the United States.
	servercc.oakton.edu /~wittman/chronol.htm (3003 words)

	Vietnam War: Opposition
		In the U.S., opposition to the Vietnam War was often associated with communists and a ‘hippie’ culture perceived as more disposed to "grooving out to rock ‘n’ roll” than pertinent issues (Moody 4).
		Resulting from this heightened social awareness, Davidson participated in a War Moratorium that was observed throughout the country in 1969 (Woodmansee 1969).
		ROTC opposition persisted, and some students even traveled to Washington D.C. to participate in protests ("Peaceful Demonstrators" 1).
	www.davidson.edu /administrative/library/archives/acs/vietnam/opposition.htm (611 words)

	Dummies::The Vietnam War Opposition in America Finds Meaning
		Had the Vietnam conflict in 1964 been a brushfire, the war in 1967, by comparison, was a raging inferno.
		The rise of congressional opposition to the Vietnam War was not so much universally against American involvement in the conflict as it was in protest against Johnson and how the military was conducting the war.
		The military's reporting of the war and the response of the media enhanced the antiwar movement's claims that serious difficulties were happening in Vietnam.
	www.dummies.com /WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-1659.html (1170 words)

	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project: Encyclopedia
		King formally announced his opposition to the Vietnam War during the Ninth Annual Convention of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in August 1965.
		However, after Johnson announced plans to divert funds from the War on Poverty to Vietnam in December of 1966, King began to reassert his criticism of the War.
		In February, King delivered a speech entitled "The Casualties of the War in Vietnam." Addressing a panel of anti-war senators, King asserted that America's involvement in Vietnam had caused the public to forget about the civil rights movement.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/vietnam.htm (644 words)

	VietnamWar.com:Vietnaw War - Overview of the Vietnam War
		During the ten years of America's commitment to the Vietnam war, 55,000 servicemen would be killed or listed as missing; the presidency would change hands three times; and the American people would wage their own war at home against the United States government.
		As American servicemembers fought in Vietnam, a different kind of war was taking place for American citizens back home, where the struggle was between the American people and their opposition to the fighting in Vietnam; and the American presidency's (beginning with J.F.K.) determination to halt the spread of communism.
		So divisive was the conflict in Vietnam and America's involvement that relations among the government, the people and the military would be strained until they were reunified by the Gulf War 25 years later.
	www.vietnamwar.com /overview.htm (752 words)

	American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr. -- A Time to Break the Silence (Declaration Against Vietnam War)
		There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America.
		It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population.
		The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality...and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing "clergy and laymen concerned" committees for the next generation.
	www.americanrhetoric.com /speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm (6256 words)

	Poets Against War
		Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
		The other day a painter friend of mine said, “A painting can stop a war.” Aside from her less frequent paintings and drawings of trees and mountainscapes, my friend is primarily a non-objective painter, so she didn’t have anything like agitprop art in mind.
		Poets Against war is a volunteer organization dependent upon the financial contributions of friends and members.
	www.poetsagainstthewar.org (843 words)

	Learn History - Vietnam War Revision - Opposition to the Vietnam War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The US public had been told that America was winning the war.
		President Johnson was so disillusioned with the war he did not seek re-election.
		It came as a terrible shock to the US public and was a powerful boost to the huge peace movement who wanted the war stopped.
	www.learnhistory.org.uk /vietnam/opposition.htm (306 words)

	war - web2announcer
		The war in Iraq goes on, but we shouldn't let it overshadow the war at home - one that frequently takes the lives of people who don't deserve to die.
		The idea of fighting a war on behalf of U.S. credibility hasn't been debated since the height of the Vietnam War.
		During the Cold War, if an American journalist or visitor to the Soviet Union reported seeing churches full of people, this was taken as a sign that the people were rejecting and escaping from communism.
	war.web2announcer.com (1759 words)

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