Johnson Vietnam War New president Lyndon B. Johnson inherited a difficult situation in Vietnam‚ as the South Vietnamese government was in shambles and the Viet Cong was making large gains in rural areas of the South. Although Johnson billed himself as a tough anti-Communist‚ he pledged to honor Kennedy’s limited troop commitments in Vietnam. The ensuing political instability in South Vietnam persuaded Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to further increase U.S. military and
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Capturing the USS Pueblo was a compelling time in history. On January 23‚ 1968 the USS Pueblo was spotted in the international waters by the North Koreans. As gunshots were fired at the commanders of the Pueblo‚ the other Americans on the USS tried but failed to escape. In the the attempt to kill the commanders‚ many others got wounded. The members of the Pueblo were charged and brought to prison for spying to close to the North Korean border. North Koreans made all of the Pueblo members involved
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The Vietnam War began in 1954 after the rise of the communist party in North Vietnam and continued throughout the 50’s and 60’s. As the Cold War intensified‚ America strengthened their policies against the Soviet Union and anyone who was allied with them and in 1955 President Eisenhower pledged to support South Vietnam and Diem‚ their leader. Diem was a dictator who found anyone who sympathized with the North Vietnamese and tortured and executed them. In 1961 President Kennedy sent a team to build
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villages being destroyed‚ Vietnamese children burning to death‚ and American body bags being sent home” (McLaughlin‚ 2012). Although Americans and the media initially supported the war‚ that all changed after the Tet Offensive that occurred in the early morning hours of January 30‚ 1968. Political leaders had continually told the public that American and South Vietnamese forces had successfully disabled communist forces‚ rendering them incapable of launching a massive attack. The communists proved
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Hippies and the Revolution of a Culture "Tune In‚ Turn On‚ and Drop Out" was the motto of the hippie movement‚ a significant countercultural phenomenon in the 1960s and early 1970s that grew partially out of young America’s growing disillusionment with U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Hippies were mainly white teenagers and young adults who shared a hatred and distrust towards traditional middle-class values and authority. They rejected political and social orthodoxies but embraced aspects of
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In late January from 1968‚ the TET offensive had marked a major turning point in the media coverage of the war. Even though the offensive was a major failure was a massive failure for North Vietnam‚ what the media told was a contrasting story. While focusing on a few unfavourable combat actions such as the battle of hue or the Viet’s Cong attack on the U.S embassy‚ the media missed the winning story of the war. As a consequence‚ the public misled by the war found the offensive to be a triumph for
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Term 3 Paper: The Media and Vietnam War The Vietnam War was a war of mass destruction‚ leaving Vietnam to become bitterly divided and claiming the many lives of Vietnamese civilians as well as American soldiers. Out of all the wars in American history‚ the Vietnam War was the first war to be broadly televised and covered by the media. It came to be known as the first “Television War”. Journalists began to pour into Vietnam from all over the nation‚ to cover the lives of the American Soldiers as
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American troops were on the ground‚ with more on the way. The Tet Offensive was a military campaign that took place during the Vietnam War. It began on January 31‚ 1968. The offensive was a strategic attack aimed or planned on the US and South Vietnamses military and civilian command centres in South Vietnam. The NVA and NLF hoped that it would end the war very quickly. It is known as the Tet Offensive because it began on the morning of Tet Nguyen Dan‚ the first day of the year on the Vietnamese lunar
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Media Transformations: Can media help win – or lose – a war? Answer through detailed discussion of coverage in one war since 1945. Introduction: The Vietnam War could be characterized as one of the most controversial incident in America’s history. United States acted paradoxically; they claimed that they protected democracy‚ they raised an oppressive dictatorial regime in the area of South Vietnam and later the US army was destroying villages in order to protect them (Wiest‚ 2002). In terms
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for several reasons‚ and with the aim of getting the US military out of Vietnam. The factor that had the most impact on the development of the Anti-Vietnam War movement was the media. By 1968‚ 90% of homes had access to a television‚ and those that didn’t had radios and newspapers. Before the Tet offensive in 1968‚ the war had been portrayed favourably by the media but after‚ the war was portrayed as unwinnable and unjust‚ leading to more people protesting against the war‚ as in 1965 25000 people
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