Word: vietnamized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people in the streets protesting, the 1980s and the 1960s--the fights over reproductive rights and Vietnam--are vastly different. Times have changed too much to make that analogy...
During the Vietnam War, the people believed they could affect change. They campaigned, marched, held sit-ins and protests and pickets, convinced that America's democracy could not help but respond to this showing of public opinion...
...some ways, the analogy is apt. The regulation of reproductive freedom is a devastating invasion of a woman's body in the same way that the Vietnam War was an invasion of another country...
...next year will see an increase in single-issue state and national legislative elections the like of which has not been seen since the Vietnam War. If any issue in the '80s could be compared to Vietnam, this would...
...decade of the most overwhelming social change our nation has ever seen. The battles over civil rights and the issues surrounding the Vietnam War were magnified in people's lives by the advent of televised news coverage. And the obvious inequalities which were being fought against lent credibility to the protests...