it effected them badly because they lost alot of people
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Until the Vietnam War, few people ever heard of Vietnam. Therefore, Vietnam's sense of National Identity was STRONG.
Since US citizens were drafted to fight the war; it had a negative impact.
Well, a lot of them died.
With protests and riots.
A reluctance to enter future conflicts
Larger defense budget.
Burnig ROTC buildings.
They were a defeated nation by April 1975.
sexually frustrated.
Anti-war demonstration and draft resistance protesters.
Being so close to Vietnam, Cambodia was able to receive the "over-flow" from it.