The Vietnam War is considered the most controversial war ever in the United States. Americans never really understood the reason for the war. Technically, it wasn't even our war to fight. The American people began to view their government differently. The nation was divided on its support for the war.
In 1945, the French started to re-establish their colonial rule in Vietnam. However, the North Vietnamese, also known as Viet Cong, believed differently, and thought that they should rule in a communist fashion. The United States agreed to supply the French with weapons, so that they would be able to defeat the Viet Cong rebellion. This was America's first step into the war and once they got involved, it was hard to get out. On August 2, 1964, the North Vietnamese attacked two US Destroyers and the Americans retaliated by air attacks. This event lead them one more step deeper into the war. By the end of 1964, the United States had 23,000 "advisors" in Vietnam. These men and Air Force personnel were being targeted more than the French, who were starting to pull their troops out of Vietnam (Fowler 29). Then on February 7, 1965, the Viet Cong attacked a United States airfield. By this time, France was completely out of Vietnam. This sent America hurtling into the war and on March 8, 1965, two battalions of Marines, numbering 3,500, were sent in to help support the South Vietnamese defense of Da Nang. By the end of the year, there were 180,000 soldiers in Vietnam (Fowler 33). .
For the first time, the media and television journalists brought war into the homes of the American people. By 1970, the media was declaring that the Vietnam War was impossible to win, influencing some Americans to turn against the war. The press also discovered some top secret US government documents, also known as the "Pentagon Papers." They revealed these Pentagon Papers to the public, showing that the government had lied about a number of secret operations in Vietnam.
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The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. ... It still affects all the people who grew up in that generation, whether you were a veteran who actually fought or just an ordinary citizen. ... It was also the biggest turning point in the Vietnam War. ... The amount of war refugees in Vietnam amounted to over 10 million. ... The Vietnam War was a very controversial war, which lasted over a decade. ...
The war was not only limited in Vietnam, but it also took place in America, on the streets, in schools, universities, and slipped in every family. ... How did it affect public opinion over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War? ... The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. ... Along with the protest of the Vietnam War all over the world, the anti-war movement in America has contributed to put an end to the intervention of the US Army i...
Furthermore into how human rights were violated in Vietnam which made the war unjust was the use of Napalm. ... And Sadly Napalm did not only affect the enemies on the battle fields but also the U.S soldiers who hit when friendly fire. ... As for my final reason for on why I believe the Vietnam war was unjustifiable is because the Vietnam War was not our fight to begin with. ... And by joining the Vietnam War, the United States contradicted itself in a way because America is well known for having strong beliefs in being a free nation where the people of the land receives what they want when t...
From 1965 until 1973, the United States of America was at war with the communist nation of North Vietnam. ... Americans now commonly believe that the war in Vietnam fueled the anti-government and anti-war movements that shocked American society and ultimately led to the United State's failure in Vietnam. ... To this day, the Vietnam War is considered one of the most controversial events in American History. ... Professors at the University of Michigan organized a protest in which 2,500 people participated.11 Out of all of the protests occurring in American, the protest at Kent State Uni...
Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... South Vietnam was still being defeated and needed a serious intervention from America. ... We were afraid that the domino affect would happen, where if one country fell to communism many more would follow. ... 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 p...
The war in veitnam Only hours after Lyndon Johnson Had became president of the United States in 1963, his first words on the Vietnam War were "I am not going to lose Vietnam. ... The Communist Party believed that the American people were growing war-weary and that they could humiliate Johnson and force the United States to hand over south Vietnam. ... e war. ... Nixon's continued reliance on expanded air war to provide cover for an American retreat angered U.S. citizens. ... Millions had depended on the money spent by Americans in Vietnam. ...
The war in Vietnam has been influential in policy and decision making for decades following the end of the war. ... After Vietnam, the affects were not directly felt in America. ... There was not a direct threat of communism in the U.S., so when communism was contained, it had little affect at home. ... Indeed, the key domino that fell was not South Vietnam but American public opinion." ... In a Gallup poll in September 1965 only twenty four percent of Americans said the Vietnam War was a mistake, by May 1973, sixty percent felt it was a mistake. ...
The foreign policies of President Eisenhower led to the involvement of the Americans in the Vietnam War, but to a limited extent. ... These foreign policies led to an effective involvement in the Vietnam War from an American perspective. ... Preventing Vietnam from becoming a communist state would become imperative given the state of affairs in the post World War II era. From the 1880's until World War II, France governed Vietnam as part of French Indochina under the control of Emperor Bao Dia. ... Two months later in July, foreign ministers of nineteen nations met at Geneva to end ...