Synonyms for Vietnam War
viet·nam war

Princeton's WordNet

1. Vietnam War, Vietnamnoun

   a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States

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1. Clarence Jones:

   President Johnson, President Johnson says,' Well, look, I've done all I --' you know. ' I've got my hands full with the Vietnam War,' blah blah blah blah. Martin Luther King says,' I don't have the power to do that,'.

2. Richard Milhous Nixon:

   Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)

3. David Abbott:

   It was specific, really, to the very tumultuous times that were going on in the United States. In the early '70s — in 1970, 1971 — it was actually the worst and most violent time, cities were on fire and the Vietnam War was finally ending, and titanic struggles had forced them [the government] to stop doing this [after] it had been going on for 15 years or more. Awful. And so, I think there was a yearning for something American. And my song fit the bill.

4. Mike Burns:

   Part of the push to adopt the 26th amendment was the ongoing protest movements of Vietnam War. Before, protest movements were the only option [ for young people ], not actually being voters who could cast ballots about the very decisions that affect their lives.

5. John Venable:

   The munition with knives has been around since at least the Vietnam War.The military term for the warhead is flechettes, which are dart-like submunitions that are released and spread out in flight as an anti-personnel device, munitions have had a variety of warheads since before the Civil War, where they used everything from classic exploding cannonballs, todumbbell-shaped projectiles and grapeshot, which was basically shotgun-shell BBs (only much larger) that used mass and velocity as the engagement mechanism.