public opinion during the Vietnam War. This was one of the first major wars being covered by the media; television had become something very familiar to the public sin the beginning of World War II. At the end of the war‚ it began to be manufactured in large-scale. In the 1950s‚ only 9% of Americans owned a television but in 1966‚ this number rose dramatically to 93%. Therefore‚ we can that television had become the most important source of news for American people during the Vietnam War. Along with
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History AP 23 April 2010 The Vietnam War With the end of World War II in 1945‚ many Americans hoped to head toward an era of prosperity and renewal. However‚ this was made impossible as the anti-communist tensions of the Cold War between the United States and the USSR sparked almost immediately after the destructive world war. The tensions between anti-communists and communists eventually led to one of the most controversial events in American history: the Vietnam War. Historians have still left
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Opposition of The Vietnam War The Vietnam war: deadly‚ fatal‚ and unsuccessful. The United State’s involvement in the Vietnam War was one of the most irreconcilable mistakes in history. The vast devastation of the war was magnified by the amount of money wasted‚ the lack of public support‚ and also the foreign warfare. By intervening in the war‚ the United States lost more than gained and remained lacking in many aspects even after the war was over. The art of the Vietnamese warfare was extremely
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The Vietnam War There were some very interesting causes of the Vietnam War in 1954-1975. The Vietnam War a very deadly war during this time that took place in South Vietnam‚ North Vietnam‚ Cambodia‚ Laos. The causes of the Vietnam War revolve around the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia. Neither the Soviet Union nor the United States could risk an all-out war against each other‚ such was the nuclear military might of both. The
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The Vietnam war was one of the most controversial wars that the USA was in‚ citizens of the USA were outraged about the Vietnam war as the America sent 540‚000 troops over to Vietnam killing many Vietnamease children and elderly. The Vietnam War started in 1954 and ended in 1973 which is the setting of the book. The war is completely relevant to the book as that is all the book is about. Phillip Caputo was in the Marine Corps to prove something to his parents. He wanted to do something that his
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The major effects that the Vietnam war had on America were that America spent 168 billion dollars on the war‚ so America was financially in trouble. It also made the people of America think about war differently in general because of the horrible things they thought America was doing in Vietnam. It changed the racial war America was fighting‚ people seeing blacks and whites fight side by side for the same cause really made people see how similar they were. In 1969 President Johnson introduced a
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change. After the Cold War had begun‚ Canada was forced to make quick and logical decisions‚ the impacts were felt from all over the world. Canada’s tremendous participation in the three major conflicts within the Cold War the Korean War in which they helped from stopping the escalation of the war‚ the resolution of Suez Canal Crisis with Canada’s contribution the crisis did not turn into a large battle and was immediately solved and their aid and guidance in the Vietnam War. Canada‚ because of their
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accurate summation of the events which caused the Vietnam War‚ and therefore it is a valuable source. The article discusses some of the reasoning for both of the superpowers’ intervention in the Vietnam War‚ such as America’s need to contain the spread of communism and to prevent the ‘Domino Effect’ from occurring in Asia. Similarly‚ a reason for both superpowers’ involvement in the war was to compete for influence in developing countries‚ in this case Vietnam. Therefore the USSR supplied Ho Chi Minh with
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The Vietnam War has been one of the most terrifying wars United States was ever a part of. It included bloodshed like any other war but gave rise to a revolution. College students were attracted to this and started organizing marches and other protests. These protests‚ like the one that was organized by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)‚ attracted a lot of support from around the country “Vietnam War Protest”. The students would have concerts to spread their message of love and peace by
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How effective were the Vietcong tactics of underground tunnels and booby traps in the Vietnam War? The Vietnam War was a war that started during the late 1950s and ended during the late 1970s. The Vietnam War ended in the Vietcong victory over America. I believe that this was due to the underground ‘labyrinth’ of tunnels and the vast usage of guerrilla warfare used by the Vietcong. Their usage of the tunnels and booby traps were in my opinion ingenious. The variety of the booby traps that were
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