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For the American civilian society: Voting and the adulthood at age 18 (from the former age of 21) & the all volunteer US military (no more trying to run, hide, and lie their way out of military induction...although US men still are REQUIRED under FEDERAL LAW to register for the draft when they reach the age of 19-this was a President Ronald Reagan special retention tool during his administration).

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What was life after the Vietnam war in Australia?

Australian society mirrored American society after the war, on a smaller scale, due to population differences.


What was society's position in the Vietnam war?

Which society? American, Vietnamese, French, Chinese, Russian, Western European? And position on what? The war, the hippie/peace movement, communism, containment, civil war?


American tactics in the Vietnam War?

what were the american tactics in the vietnam war


What was society's feeling towards Vietnam war?

Members of society were being drafted to fight the Vietnam War; consequently, they were against it.


What psychological effects did the Vietnam war have on American troops?

Just this one: "We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Are doing the impossible For the ungrateful"

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What was life after the Vietnam war in Australia?

Australian society mirrored American society after the war, on a smaller scale, due to population differences.


How did the Vietnam war affect Johnson war of poverty?

The Vietnam war distracted the American people from Johnson's plan for a "Great Society".


Which event did not significantly change the social economic or political realities of American society?

the Vietnam war


What was society's position in the Vietnam war?

Which society? American, Vietnamese, French, Chinese, Russian, Western European? And position on what? The war, the hippie/peace movement, communism, containment, civil war?


US effects of the Vietnam war?

The effects of the Vietnam war were devistating. Leaving many deragened and mental.


What effects did the Vietnam war have on Vietnam veterans and their families?

Division.


Compare and contrast the Vietnam war and the American war?

Most people know what the Vietnam War is; what is the American War?


American tactics in the Vietnam War?

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What psychological effects did the Vietnam war have on American troops?

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What was the relationship between the north and the south by 1900?

The Spanish-American War of 1898 brought the Americans together (re-united them) from the effects of the US Civil War. Operation Desert Storm of January/February 1991 reunited the American people from the effects of the Vietnam War (per President George Bush Sr., "...we've beat the Vietnam syndrome!").


How did the war affect Johnson great society?

The Vietnam War was very damaging to Johnson's Great Society aspirations. People were outraged by the premise and practices of the war.