When the war in Vietnam began, many Americans believed that defending South Vietnam from communist aggression was in the national interest. Peace movement leaders opposed the war on moral and economic grounds. The North Vietnamese, they argued, were fighting a patriotic war to rid themselves of foreign aggressors.

The various reasons that the large number of young Americans opposed the war was because: -They thought that it was a national civil war, not a cold war battle. -They didn’t want America to be the “police of the world”. -American soldiers were dying in a war that had little to do with American interests.

Many Americans opposed the war on moral grounds, appalled by the devastation and violence of the war. Others claimed the conflict was a war against Vietnamese independence, or an intervention in a foreign civil war; others opposed it because they felt it lacked clear objectives and appeared to be unwinnable.

In what sense was the Vietnam War a “working-class” war? It was a “working-class” war because mainly lower class whites or minorities fought. They were unable to come up with reasons to escape the war because they were less privileged economically.

Working-Class War follows American soldiers in Vietnam essentially from childhood, through combat, and to their lives after their service. At basic training, young men were transformed into soldiers through an often brutal process that encouraged directed aggressiveness and discipline.

Appy argues that the U.S. was defeated in Vietnam because policymakers failed to understand the character of the war and the motivations and loyalties of both the North and South Vietnamese people.

President Richard Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces.

The United States ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall. The United States agreed to cede West Berlin to the Soviet Union.

The wall to stop refugees escaping from the east of Berlin to the paradise of the west side. As the east side was still wrecked by war and didn’t receive Marshall aid the wall was constructed from rock from the wrecked buildings. You just studied 8 terms!

Wall stood as a symbol of Cold War for three decades., 1961 – The Soviet Union, under Nikita Khrushev, erected a wall between East and West Berlin to keep people from fleeing from the East, after Kennedy asked for an increase in defense funds to counter Soviet aggression. You just studied 16 terms!

The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Iron Curtain, and its destruction marked the end of communist power in Germany. Between 1970 and 1990, jobs and economic movements were controlled by .

Terms in this set (18) A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world.

What is one major event that happened after the Berlin Wall came down? The USSR broke up into several nations.

Q: What did the Berlin Wall symbolize in Germany and around the world? Professor Harrison: The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism. It symbolized the Cold War and divide between the communist Soviet bloc and the western democratic, capitalist bloc.

Though East and West Germany were formally reunified on October 3, 1990, the fall of the Berlin Wall served as a symbol of the country’s unification—and, for many, the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the Cold War.

It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans.

The Berlin wall divided families who found themselves unable to visit each other. Many East Berliners were cut off from their jobs. West Berliners demonstrated against the wall and their mayor Willy Brandt led the criticism against the United States who they felt had failed to respond.

At the end of the Second World War, Germany was divided into four zones of occupation under the control of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union. The American, British and French sectors would form West Berlin and the Soviet sector became East Berlin.