Vietnam War
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4.2
- noun
- /viˈɛtˌnɑm wɔr/
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guerra de Vietnam
- Later, young people staged sit-ins to protest the Vietnam War and to demand equal rights for women.
- Vietnam War veteran
- end of the Vietnam War
- involvement in the Vietnam War
And we were a trade surplus until the Vietnam War, the Vietnam War.
- And we were a trade surplus until the Vietnam War, the Vietnam War.
- You know, that was the program before the Vietnam War in Laos, right?
- Soldiers weren't seen as heroes in the Vietnam War, right?
- He avoided the Vietnam War draft through a Podiatry claim.
- Like think about Sante, which was this great first commando raid during the Vietnam War, famous raid.
- But the, the government hated what the media did in the Vietnam War.
- Muhammad Ali protested against the Vietnam War.
- Or if they're shooting, it's mainly proxies that are doing the fighting, much like the Vietnam War, right?
- And he caught Robert McNamara, who was the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War.
- I think back in the latter years of the Vietnam War, it was chiefly that war that divided us.
Examples
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You know, the Vietnam War was a very traumatic event on all sorts of levels.
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Hippies protesting the Vietnam War.
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What did you want to get across about Black soldiers experience in the Vietnam War through these characters?
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I was a boy when I heard this, growing up with the Vietnam War on television.
Fiction book (1993) -
If you were alive during the Vietnam War and you got drafted, you probably would have thought it was the end.
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I had started demonstrating because of the Vietnam War and then I met very strong women connected to that.
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For most of the world, the Vietnam War ended in April 1975.
Academic text (1999) -
Some were fleeing the Vietnam War draft, while others came to find themselves.
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From his anguish emerged the first comprehensive Vietnam War curriculum for high schools in the country.
Academic text (1992) -
The average age of a combat soldier in the Vietnam War was nineteen.
Synonyms
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A long war from 1954 to 1975 between North Vietnam and South Vietnam
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward country-name + common noun construction: a B1 learner who knows 'Vietnam' and 'war' will infer it refers to a war involving Vietnam. This compositional pattern (e.g. 'Iraq War', 'World War') is cross-linguistically common, so the core meaning is immediately transparent even if historical details are unknown.
Etymology
Vietnam War comes from the country name Vietnam and the word War. It names the long war in Vietnam from 1954 to 1975 between communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam, with major United States involvement, so the phrase means 'the long war in Vietnam'.