Try: Statistics About the Vietnam War; recommended by the History Channel. Also look into, "The American War Library."
The Vietnam War was a major problem and the continued draft.
The Vietnam War was a major problem and the continued draft.
We had been in Vietnam since Eisenhower and JFK had sent in advisors. The government policy was the containment of communism and Vietnam was part of that policy because it feared the the Chinese communist were spreading through Southeast Asia. Johnson was part of the containment thinking and when the Gulf of Tonkin incident happened it drew the US more directly into the war and he began to draft more and more men. Nixon expanded the war into Laos and before he was elected had stopped a peace treaty. It was to his advantage to have the war.
At least 153,303 were wounded seriously enough to require hospitalization. Add to that the 58,152 that were wounded and died and you have 211,455. This does not include the number wounded, treated in the field and returned to duty.
The United States took over where the French left which subsequently led to the second Vietnam war. The United States supported a new anticommunist government in South Vietnam.
Draft
Men resisted the draft!
The NUMBER ONE reason for protesting the war was THEY DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO VIETNAM (THE DRAFT!).
The draft.
College students were the number 1 draft deferments.
The first US draft was during the US Civil War (1861-1865); the last US draft was during the Vietnam War (1961-1975).
The Vietnam War=the military draft!
It went from WWII to Vietnam.
The draft tore the nation apart. No draft...no problem.
The Vietnam War was a major problem and the continued draft.
Certainly. The US Civil War (War of the Rebellion) 1861-1865 was not a declared war by congress, and THAT WAS THE US FIRST MILITARY DRAFT! What makes Vietnam any different from that?
They were called "Draft Dodgers."