It was the first war televised, making people more aware of what was happening overseas. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... With the Cold War, the United States had promised to keep communism from spreading. ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. The Vietnam conflict only became a larger issue when a civil war broke out in Laos, We needed to find out how serious this problem was so we sent vice president Johnson to Vietnam to assess the issue. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Three times, however, in one century, the victims were so numerous and their trauma so documentable that society could not ignore their suffering - World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. ... (Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never even met your enemy. ... He died in 1937 in a mental hospital where he had continued to write "war poetry" thinking the war was still going on.... In his novel, "Regeneration", Pat Barker tells the story of a doctor in a mental hospital whose job was to cure victims of ...

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