Word: vietnamization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wisconsin, the fight to establish Black studies fueled the movement for a variety of other student causes, eventually resulting in large-scale student protests against the war in Vietnam and the draft...
Berkeley, for example, traced its protests back to 1963. The administration there had been faced with "almost eight years of dealing with unbroken confrontation," by the time of the massive anti-Vietnam war protests in 1970, says Skotnes...
...Kent State shootings in 1970 shocked the country and blasted through the illusions of the student protesters whose numbers had swelled as the Vietnam war became more and more unpopular...
...Russia tired and spent by Hitler's Wehrmacht, the U.S. instigated a policy of containment in response to the expansionist foreign policy pursued by the Soviet Union. The mutually exclusive nature of these stances led to the Cold War, which has been fought in Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Nicaragua and Afghanistan...
...fourth essay, on the '60s, focuses on the Vietnam conflict. He was listed in a survey as writer outstandingly in favor of continuing American involvement in Vietnam, but Updike felt misrepesented. So he wrote a letter to The New York Times in 1966, "claiming that not only I but the president (whoever he was) was not an ostrich...