How Did The Vietnam War Affect The Economy

1966-1968 1966-1968 was a time of a lot of change in America. Around this time the Civil Rights Movement was coming to an end. The legislation had been signed to ensure equality between white people and black people, but now the barriers were social. Black people still had less opportunities and were still subject to much racism in their everyday lives. Also around this time there was much protest regarding the Vietnam war. On March 26, 1966, over 200,000 people gathered worldwide to protest the Vietnam war. People were unhappy about the amount of lives lost with so little progress. Also the fact that the people that were being sent into war were average, everyday people because of the draft made the war that much more hated. The Vietnam War was also having a negative effect on the economy because funding the war caused much inflation and was just another reason that people were against it. During this time tensions between the Unites States and the Soviet Union were still high. They were both racing to see who could get to the moon first.

One of the main things happening in this period of time was protests against the Vietnam war. By 1967 a
Despite the fact that all missiles were out of Cuba by this time the cold war was still raging on. Around this time lots of treaties were being signed putting restrictions on nuclear weapons such as who could have them and were testing could be done. The 1967 outer space treaty banned nuclear testing anywhere in earth’s orbit, and on other planets in the solar system. The 1967 Tlatelolco Treaty, made it Illegal for latin American countries to possess nuclear weapons. The 1968 treaty made it harder for countries without nuclear weapons to get them, and countries without nuclear weapons lost the right to make nuclear weapons. Countries with nuclear weapons were now also unable to pass nuclear weapons to countries without