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…. The second of the California parties is the Peace and Freedom Party. This system, like the first, was also founded in the 60’s on June 23, 1967. The root of this political party stems back to the Vietnam War when minorities were left out of the picture and put…

…to block Communist from coming in Asia. After the French lost the battle of Dienbienphu and drew back form Indochina, Dwight Eisenhower sent Military help to South Vietnam. After the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1953 he tried to calm the cold war…

…dedicated the book to the four Kent-State University students who were shot at a rally against the Vietnam War. Chambers says this and he doesn’t even know what really happened. One of the students who were killed wasn’t even participating in the rally. Unknowing…

…Born on the Fourth of July greatly relates to my life. The story has many analogies to my process of thinking. I never served in Vietnam, yet I feel like I experience the same things in my life. Ron Kovic does a great job in his story. We can visualize…

…Lives), to bring about a quicker resolution to the war, and to send a message to the world that we now had military supremacy. Growing up in a military family, (with a dad a Vietnam vet, and a grandfather who would have fought in Japan if we had invaded), may…

…included 200 liberal politicians, journalists, and actors. When people made public speeches against Vietnam, agents found out secret information about them that would harm them. The Nixon campaign routinely engaged in unethical "dirty tricks." These deceptions…

…by the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, defense department documents concerning the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. These highly secret papers were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg to the New York Times. Shortly after, Nixon established a White House special…

…developed because secondary students in Des Moines had been wearing black armbands to protest American involvement in the Vietnam War. The administration ordered them to stop because it considered the action a disruption and a violation of a school regulation…

…the Spanish Civil War; the engineering of counterinsurgency programs in Third World countries; the Vietnam War; and the Clinton administration's illegal acts of aggression, including the bombing of Yugoslavia. Of course that's all excusable because... Well I forget…

…called the first Vietnam; a guerrilla war fought on a distant land against a foreign people, over the right to self-government. Against these "savages", frustrated American troops often abandoned civilized warfare, and brutality rose to the level of committing…