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    The Vietnam war draft were two lotteries conducted by the Selective Service System of the United States on December 1, 1969, to determine the order of...
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    Draft evasion in the Vietnam War was a common practice in the United States and in Australia. Significant draft avoidance was taking place even before...
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  • Canada did not officially participate in the Vietnam War. However, it contributed to peacekeeping forces in 1973 to help enforce the Paris Peace Accords...
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    in Vietnam on March 8, 1965. Richard Nixon was elected President of the United States in 1968 on the platform of ending the Vietnam War and the draft. Nixon...
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    The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina...
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    the military draft Vietnam War: Draft Resistance – historical site for Draft Resistance Seattle, example of the locally based U.S. anti-draft groups mentioned...
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    Vietnam War resisters in Canada were American draft evaders and military deserters who avoided serving in the Vietnam War by seeking political asylum...
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    the Vietnam War took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The protests were part of a movement in opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. The...
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  • United States involvement in the Vietnam War began shortly after the end of World War II in Asia, first in an extremely limited capacity and escalating...
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    American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The fourth incarnation of the draft came into being in 1940, through the...
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    asylum in Canada after being called up in the Vietnam War draft. American draft evaders of the Vietnam War were later pardoned by US President Jimmy Carter...
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    deserters and draft dodgers. Unlike other nations like Canada that discreetly harbored Vietnam War resisters, the Swedish government granted war resisters...
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    16.3% of all draftees. During the period of the Vietnam War, well over half of African American draft registrants were found ineligible for military service...
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    anti-war movement. The first draft-card burners were American men participating in the opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. The...
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    of the Vietnam War vary widely. Estimates can include both civilian and military deaths in North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The war lasted...
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  • Angrist capitalized on the approximate random assignment of the Vietnam War draft lottery, and used it as an instrumental variable associated with eligibility...
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  • of the Vietnam War era was stimulated by the unfairness of the draft, the loss of American lives in Vietnam, and the unsupported expansion of war. The Vietnam...
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    of Vietnam and sent heavy weapons, as well as military advisers led by Luo Guibo to assist the Viet Minh in its war with the French. The first draft of...
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    military forces in South Vietnam, prompted by the realization that the South Vietnamese government was losing the Vietnam War as the communist-dominated...
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  • referring to the Vietnam War, or to the Vietnam War's after-effects. For a more complete listing see "Vietnam on Record", and the Vietnam War Song Project...
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    Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War began with a small commitment of 30 military advisors in 1962, and increased over the following decade to a...
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    David Harris (activist) (category Vietnam War draft evaders)
    film The Boys Who Said NO!, which highlights the story of draft resistance during the Vietnam War. In March 1973, Jann Wenner, the founder and publisher...
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  • Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which became the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, was a coalition of American antiwar...
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    and ground war in Southeast Asia. Since its inception in February 1965, Operation Rolling Thunder, the bombing campaign against North Vietnam, had escalated...
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    developments in the Vietnam War. The military operations started with an attack on a US base by the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the...
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  • This article lists notable films related to the Vietnam War. After the Vietnam War ended in 1975, there was an increase in American films that were more...
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    Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) is an American tax-exempt non-profit organization and corporation founded in 1967 to oppose the United States policy...
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    Women in the Vietnam War were active in a large variety of roles, making significant impacts on the War and with the War having significant impacts on...
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    United States Navy for use as a mobile riverine assault boat in the Vietnam War. Another version served as a command and control boat (CCB or Charlie...
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  • initially named Ghost Draft, and it was revealed that the film would be about a husband and father who is drafted to fight a future war where the fate of...
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