The Red Scare: The United States After The Vietnam War

After World War II, the Red Scare, a fear of communism, swept the whole nation and all around the world. When the Vietnam War began, the United States immediately intervened and helped South Vietnam fight against the Communist North Vietnam. Our mission was to contain any measure of communism. Some major issues that were addressed were: the amount of lives lost along with the draft issue, impossible control of protesters and riots, and false information given to the people of America. In the beginning of this war, the majority of the soldiers from the United States were nineteen. They were a lot younger than the soldiers that fought for the World War II which was the age of twenty-six. The men who were drafted and refused to fight received
With national television and news, families and friends could see the real live footage of the Vietnam War. People sitting in the living room watched dead soldiers in body bags be dragged from rice paddies. Too many soldiers were suffering. Peaceful demonstrations turned violent as students protested at college and rioted for the United States to pull out from the war. After seeing the My Lai Massacre published by Life Magazine in 1971, American citizens were furious at the army for killing civilians. Citizens burned down ROTC buildings, and they blocked off the roads. Classes had to be cancelled because of the rioting at schools. As the war dragged on, the anti-war movement turned into an unstoppable force, pressuring the United States to reconsider
Johnson lied to America about United States winning.When the North Vietnamese fired at one of our battleships located in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress granted President Lyndon B. Johnson a blank check thus giving President Johnson the power to dutifully do what he thought was the morally right option. Americans could not go up against the Vietcong, but nevertheless President Johnson refused to withdraw troops no matter what the circumstances. When President Nixon was inaugurated into office, he promised to withdraw troops slowly. He enforced a plan called “Vietnamization” and Peace of Honor. President Nixon planned to train the South Vietnamese troops to carry out the fighting in the place of American troops. But not too long after the proposed plan, Nixon bombed the Ho Chi Minh trail that supplied communist supplies. That furthermore led to the invasion of