Previously, whenever the US became involved in a war, it was because the opposing country had done something to us. Impressment in the War of 1812, Pearl Harbor in WW2 etc. In Vietnam, the US helped the democratic Southern Vietnam prevail over the socialist Northern Vietnam. This was a response to our new doctrine of Containment (contain communism instead of actually trying to defeat it). Nothing had provoked the US to become involved, but we did anyway. So that made people upset. Secondly, the US was spending lots of resources (like people) to a war that shouldn't be fought. There was a draft, so it's not like men had a choice to go or not. And thirdly, the US government performed secret bombings from neutral countries like Cambodia. The American Public knew nothing of this until the release of the Pentagon Papers. This led to the distrust of the government that we know today.
Many US citizens felt our country had no business in that war, and that our soldiers were being killed for reasons that (they felt) didn't concern us.
People objected to the Vietnam War as it was the first televised war and civilians at home could see the true horrors of war
The Vietnam War deflected people from the aims of his Great Society.
show pictures of the Vietnam war
What was a major political consequence of the Vietnam War
The nation of North Vietnam (which no longer exists...it's called Vietnam today). The country that the US was allied to, South Vietnam, doesn't exist either...it was consumed by North Vietnam. The official name of SOUTH Vietnam was the "Republic of South Vietnam."
Cold War.
Most people know what the Vietnam War is; what is the American War?
If people do not learn from history (Vietnam) then they are doomed to repeat it.
Napalm bombs were used in the Vietnam War and killed a lot of people.
Americans were drafted into the Vietnam War in 1965.
60,000 people in the war fought the air force of vietnam.
Hawks which were the people who were for war including the Vietnam war.
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Over 300,000 US servicemen were wounded in the Vietnam War.
As was the American people, the UN was divided on the Vietnam War.
See: Statistics About the Vietnam War. Recommended by the History Channel.
They fled South Vietnam, not Vietnam; they feared slaughter.