Like so many of the finest churches, [the cathedral of Siena] was furnished with a plain substantial front wall, intended to serve as the backing and support of an ornamental faÃ§ade. (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ.
Why Did the US Enter the Vietnam War: the capitalist south Vietnamese were losing the fight against the communist north Vietnamese and Americans feared the communists would take over.
By 1969, at  the height of the war, the United States had about 543,000 troops  in Vietnam. Many of them were teenagers. The average age of  Americans fighting in Vietnam was 19.    END OF THE WAR Although Nixon increased the bombing of North  Vietnam, he began withdrawing U.S. troops.or the US, the Vietnam War was an effort to prevent the expansion of communist influence in Southeast Asia, pitting South Vietnam (supported by the US) against the armies and â¦ guerrilla forces of North Vietnam (supported mainly by the Soviet Union).