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Digital History: The War at Home HandoutDigital History: The War at Home Handout
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Digital History
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9th - 10th
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Handout

Digital History: The War at Home

Curated by ACT

By the middle of the 1960s, American public opinion was beginning to favor US withdrawal from the Vietnam War. After the Tet Offensive in 1968 and Nixon's secret bombings of Cambodia, the majority of Americans were calling for complete US withdrawal from Vietnam.

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