Who fought against whom in the Vietnam War

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• Who fought against whom in the Vietnam War?

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A tunnel rat
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• Why did the United States become involved in
  Vietnam, and why did it increase its involvement
  into the 1970s?
• What specific events marked the beginning of the
  United States' active military campaign against
  North Vietnam? (e.g., the Gulf of Tonkin
  Resolution)

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• I) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution- take
  all necessary measures"

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• What was the initial public sentiment in the
  United States regarding U.S. involvement in
  Vietnam?
• What was President Johnson's attitude toward U.S.
  involvement in Vietnam? What was President
  Nixon's attitude toward the war?
• How did the war change under President Nixon's
  administration?

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• Was the Vietnam War overwhelmingly popular among
  American civilians? Why or why not?

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• There's something happening hereWhat it is
  ain't exactly clearThere's a man with a gun over
  thereTelling me I've got to beware
  CHORUS It's time we stop children
  What's that soundEverybody look what's going
  down      

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• There's battle lines being drawnNobody's right
  if everybody's wrongYoung people speaking their
  mindsAre getting so much resistance from behind
• CHORUS
• It's time we stop children
• What's that soundEverybody look what's going
  down

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• What a field day for the heat Ten thousand
  people in the streets Singing songs and carrying
  signs Mostly say "hooray for our side"
• CHORUS
• It's time we stop children
• What's that sound Everybody look what's going
  down

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• Paranoia strikes deepInto your life it will
  creepIt starts when you're always afraidStep
  out of line the man come And take you
  away
• CHORUS
• It's time we stop children
• What's that soundEverybody look what's going
  down

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• I hear people talking bad about the way
• They have to live here in this country.
• Harpin' on the wars we fight
• Gripin' 'bout the way things ought to be.
• I don't mind them switchin' sides
• And standin' up for things they beleive in,
• When they're runnin' down our country man,
• They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me

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• They're walkin' on the fightin side of me.
• Runnin' down a way of life
• Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep,
• If you don't love it, leave it,
• Let this song that I'm singin' be a warnin',
• When you're runnin' down our country
• You're walkin' on the fightin side of me.

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• I read about some squirley guy
• Who claims that he just don't believe in
  fightin',
• And I wonder just how long
• The rest of us can count on bein' free.
• They love our milk and honey
• But they preach about some other way of livin',
• When they're runnin' down our country man
• They're walkin' on the fightin side of me.

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• They're walkin' on the fightin side of me.
• Runnin' down a way of life
• Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep,
• If you don't love it, leave it,
• Let this song that I'm singin' be a warnin',
• When you're runnin' down our country
• You're walkin' on the fightin side of me.