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How did the draft contribute to public discontent with the war?

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How did the draft contribute to public discontent with the war?

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The draft affected the war because people didn't want to be sent to a war that people didn't believe in. They would protest and even burn their draft cards out of defiance.

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How did events like Kent State impact the anti-war movement?

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How did events like Kent State impact the anti-war movement?

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Actions by the government like the Kent State shootings only made the anti-war movement more intense. During the Kent State shootings, the Ohio National Guard shot and killed 4 unarmed students during a protest. The outrage that followed sparked hundreds of campuses to close.

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What was napalm, and why was it used during the Vietnam War?

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What was napalm, and why was it used during the Vietnam War?

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Napalm is a substance that consists of a mixture of gelling agents and gasoline/diesel fuel. It was used to create widespread damage, and it also had a psychological effect on the Vietnamese forces and civilians.

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What were some key reasons why the Vietnam war faced growing opposition in the US

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What were some key reasons why the Vietnam war faced growing opposition in the US

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One of the key reasons was because the US had no reason to get involved and people were dying for no United States gain. Another reason was because the US was losing the war and there was no reason to keep on sending troops to die.

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Why did the U.S. support South Vietnam instead of North Vietnam?

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Why did the U.S. support South Vietnam instead of North Vietnam?

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The U.S. sided with South Vietnam as an effort to stop the Soviet Union's spread of communism in foreign countries (North Vietnam supported communism, whilst South Vietnam supported anti-communism).

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what happened after the war and how did agent orange effect the veterans and the Vietnamese soldiers?

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what happened after the war and how did agent orange effect the veterans and the Vietnamese soldiers?

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during the war agent orange was being used and even after the war veterans and Vietnamese people and soldiers were still being affected by it. This substance causes cancer and plasma cell mutations in babies and even after three generations effects can still be seen. Hodgkin's disease was one of the diseases that the VA thought was caused by agent orange.

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How did U.S. soldiers attempt to detect and destroy viet cong tunnel system?

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How did U.S. soldiers attempt to detect and destroy viet cong tunnel system?

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Soldiers tried destroying the tunnels with conventional explosives.

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How did guerrilla warfare tactics help the viet Cong against U.S forces?

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How did guerrilla warfare tactics help the viet Cong against U.S forces?

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Guerrilla warfare tactics helped the viet Cong because they would blend in with civilians so the U.S soldiers wouldn't suspect anything. They also used surprise attacks so they can catch the soldiers off guard and they used booby traps

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What was the primary goal of the United states in getting involved with Vietnam?

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What was the primary goal of the United states in getting involved with Vietnam?

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the primary goal of the United States in getting involved was to prevent the spread of communism in southeast Asia.

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How did Agent Orange affect both the environment and human health in Vietnam

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How did Agent Orange affect both the environment and human health in Vietnam

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Agent Orange was a chemical herbicide, to kill plants, which affected the environment by destroying plant life, and could also affect soldiers by making it harder to blend into their surroundings and could've affected soldier's diet. - Ryan Shen

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What was the significance of the Tet Offensive in 1968?

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What was the significance of the Tet Offensive in 1968?

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Viet Cong launched a massive attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. In this campaign, viet Cong launched mass attack along cities and farms. Even though United States and South Vietnam won because viet Cong suffered from huge causalities, it was a success to North Vietnam because it weakened U.S. public support of the war which led to the withdrawal from the region and the success of Communist forces taking south Vietnam.

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why was the ho chi minh trail critical to north vietnam's war effort

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why was the ho chi minh trail critical to north vietnam's war effort

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The Ho Chi Minh trail was critical to North Vietnam's war effort because it served as a primary supply route to transport troops, weapons, and supplies. Without the route, North Vietnam would've struggled.

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Musicians played and wrote songs and poems and played songs related to the bad things about war. These discouraged some and enforced the protest. The artists would draw the horrors of war..

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"Operation Rolling Thunder" was the systematic bombing campaign against Vietnam, it was the biggest bombing campaign in history. It impacted Vietnam by destroying 85% of its petroleum, 70 % of its power generation capacity, 70% of ammunition storage resources, and 25 percent of its barracks facilities

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What was the primary goal of the United States in getting involved in Vietnam?

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What was the primary goal of the United States in getting involved in Vietnam?

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The primary goal of the United States involvement in Vietnam was to stop the spread of the Soviet Union's ideology of communism in other countries.

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What were the long-term effects of the war on  Vietnam and its people?

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What were the long-term effects of the war on  Vietnam and its people?

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There was mass trauma towards the people who fought during the proxy war, and the people caught in the crossfire of the war in Vietnam. Vietnam became forcibly reunified by the North Vietnamese, and the country fell to communism. Some of the Vietnamese who were displaced became refugees and fled Vietnam.

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Why were booby traps and tunnels so effective against technologically superior U.S. forces?

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Why were booby traps and tunnels so effective against technologically superior U.S. forces?

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Booby traps and tunnels were effective against US forces in the Vietnam War because they were part of a guerrilla warfare strategy that used deception and the environment to their advantage.

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why did the us consider defoliants like agent orange necessary 

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why did the us consider defoliants like agent orange necessary 

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chemical agents to destroy foliage was necessary to counteract enemies from using forest as cover and a hideout for guerilla fighters

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What role did the Gulf of Tonkin incident play in escalating the conflict?

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What role did the Gulf of Tonkin incident play in escalating the conflict?

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The Gulf of Tonkin incident escalated the situation of the war by giving justification for the U.S. to increase its military presence in Indochina.

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Why did president Gerald Ford declare Vietnam war over in 1975?

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Why did president Gerald Ford declare Vietnam war over in 1975?

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President Gerald Ford said in a speech that Americans could regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. It means that the more fighting they do, the less likely they will end the war, and that's what they did.

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What was the significance of the Tet Offensive in 1968?

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What was the significance of the Tet Offensive in 1968?

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North Vietnam started a campaign called Tet Offensive in 1968. Even though the United States and South Vietnam won because viet Cong suffered huge causalities, North Vietnam techniquely won because U.S. public support of the war weakened and troops would soon be withdraw in that region and North Vietnam would eventually took over South Vietnam by taking Saigon.

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What happened during the fall of Saigon in 1975?

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What happened during the fall of Saigon in 1975?

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The Saigon was captured by the communists which led to the end of the war. In which, many of many of the southern Vietnamese fled for fear of retaliation from the communist government.

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How did the Vietnam War impact U.S. foreign policy moving forward?

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How did the Vietnam War impact U.S. foreign policy moving forward?

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The U.S. policy became more and more cautious on planning attacks on overseas, they learned that brutality in this war with many casualties.

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How did the viet cong use tunnels to their advantages during the war?

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How did the viet cong use tunnels to their advantages during the war?

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The Viet Cong used tunnels extensively during the Vietnam War as a hidden network for movement, storage, medical facilities, command centers, and as a means to launch surprise attacks against American forces.

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How did the release of the Pentagon Papers affect public trust in the government?

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How did the release of the Pentagon Papers affect public trust in the government?

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The release of the Pentagon papers was affected because the government didn't believe in the war during the Vietnam War in 1955-1975.

The war during the Pentagon Papers involved many countries, like Northern Vietnam and Cambodia, with their freedom of press during WWII.