After the real war ended in 1918, the ideological war, which was gaining speed at home, turned against conscientious objectors and other radical minorities such as Wobblies, who were members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and Socialists as well. ... These people held strong anti-government/anti-capitalist views, often advocating the immediate overthrow of capitalism. ...
Rejection and exploitation of the Vietnam Veteran by the US caused the veterans to fight a different war, PTSD when they returned home. ... Therefore the war became a rather solitary war, where one soldier was sent alone, and then proceeded to return back home alone. ... Confusion as to what would happen next tore at the joy that he felt in being alive and going away from the war, back to his home where he belonged. ... When someone finally did leave and go back home his buddies would be left behind in the field without his skills and he would return home with mixed feelings of joy and gui...
"We knelt and we prayed and I held the one's hand, whose leg had been blown off and looked him in the face and I mean...I can only tell you that I watched the life go from his body. ... Soldiers go to war physically, but they return home with the war in their heads. ... Soldiers are faced with this internal battle throughout war and the afterthoughts follow them home. ... If the Soldiers experienced symptoms for 6 months after their return home it was considered a transient situational disorder. ... With that being said, 35000 to 775,000 will return home to their families with PTSD...
Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. We failed to accomplish the goals we created in the beginni...
The lack of support from the home front has an effect on the progress of the war. Military victory and success are intangible without the support from the home front. ... "The war on the US home front provoked deepening bitterness and still remains hugely controversial. ... In 1954 the French were defeated at the Dien Bien Phu post and decided to pull out of Vietnam.4 That same year the Geneva Conference was held. ... The motivation for the soldiers to fight for peace in Vietnam quickly weakened as a result of the movements disrupting peace on the home front.13 Why would the soldiers want to f...
(The Century) But as the war dragged on, the subject of going home became a ghastly joke. Writer Robert Graves wrote, "We held two irreconcilable beliefs: that the war would never end and that we would win it."... (Hatt 57) Some were so disfunctional that they never again left hospitals or nursing homes. ...
You Can Kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win" (Lowe 10). Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated...
The United States in the 1960s was a time of cultural change and social movements throughout the country. The youth movement was characterized by young college students that had become political activists and were against political suppression by the government. They were also were majorly involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements. Others that were apart of the youth movement simply separated themselves from the mainstream ideals of the society. The social, cultural, and political impacts of the counterculture that took place in the 60s had a very large impact on United States history...
From the beginning of recorded history music in some form or other has told the story of life and its beauty, wonder, struggles, and causes. From the love between a man and a woman to the oppression of people, music and song have been supplying the soundtrack to life. Music has a tendency to questio...
Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. The means by which they sought to achieve these goals ranged from peaceful negotiation to armed insurrection and protracted revolutionary warfare. The independence movements were likewise diverse. They were not all communist, although communists actively involved themselves in most of the "wars of liberation", forming blocs within other movements where they did not have the strength to stand alone. S...
AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. The sixties also showed Communism coming into the Western hemisphere and thus coming...
