Opposition To The Vietnam War

The opinion of the public in the United States’ government was affected from the Vietnam War. In the beginning, most of the Americans supported the war but when more conflicts occurred and more troops were shipped the support started to decrease. What began is that some college student movement against the war then it became as a national protest. By the end of 1965, most of the soldiers who had been fighting in the war were drafted into war. Some Americans opposed the draft and believed it is unfair. The Vietnamese war was the first war to be televised instead of writing down news in newspaper

The Vietnam War began in 1954 with an expected amount critics but these opponents eventually became the basis for the movement. Protests and demonstrations over time gained momentum, creating a community of civilians working to bring troops home from Asia. While the war did end in 1975, it took the antiwar movement alongside the government almost 20 years to do so. The movement also did not prevent the United States from entering other international armed conflict, one of their main goals. In the years to come the United States found itself in other conflicts such as the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq

The Vietnam War was a major controversy for the United States compared to World War 1 and World War 2. With both of the previous wars that the United States had been a major part of they had brought the people of the country together to fight  and work hard to show their support to the soldiers that were fighting. During these two wars we saw the rise of women in the workforce as they came into the picture of taking the jobs that the men held while they went away to fight in the way. And then there was the avid signing up to fight. Men as young as teenagers signing up to fight in both of these wars. The difference is that with the Vietnam War it was met with disdain from the public and also the soldiers as well. With this war people

During the time the United States was in a war, the American public was sharply divided creating another war among its people. The war had transformed America to a different place with its defeat. It had far-reaching consequences and impact on most aspects of American life from the economy, culture to domestic politics and foreign policy. The Vietnam war created a time of uncertainty because so many had lost their trust in the government. With the end of the Vietnam war, the United States left with a humiliating defeat and shockingly high casualties.

The Vietnam War was, and continues to be, one of America's darkest moments, one that nearly tore the nation apart. In order to stop the spread of communism in Europe and Asia, the United States aided French imperialists and their reoccupation of Vietnam. At first, the U.S took a position of neutrality to both countries, but by early 1947, they began fighting in support of France. This war, lasting over 20 years, became the longest and most unpopular war in the 20th century. Overall, the Vietnam War was detrimental to the United States because it caused a massive debt from the 1960s to the 1990s, turned the American people against their government, and many troops were neglected and despised upon their return.

The American involvement in the Vietnam War was a very controversial decision, with many people being for the war, however many people in the United States were also against the war. The Vietnam War was the longest lasting war in the United States history, before the Afghanistan War, in which most people felt strongly about, be them United States citizens, Vietnamese citizens, or just the global population. In order to better understand the ideas of those American citizens that are either for or against the war, one would have to look at the reasons that the United States was involved in the war, the impact of the Vietnam war on the American society, and the impact on the United States foreign policy.

     The Vietnam conflict has been known for being the most unpopular war in the history of the United States. The war of 1812, the Mexican war and the Korean conflict of the early 1950's were also opposed by large groups of the American people, but none of them generated the emotional anxiety and utter hatred that spawned Vietnam. The Vietnam war caused people to ask the question of sending our young people to die in places where they were particular wanted and for people who did not seem especial grateful.

The goal was to stop North Vietnam from taking over south Vietnam and converting it to

The Vietnam War was a very long and messy war that started in 1954 and ended in 1975, although the United States joined in 1965. The united states projected the idea of stopping a Communist takeover of Vietnam as their main reason for joining the war. Soldiers fighting in the war were about two thirds volunteer and the rest were selected through the draft. This sparked outrage in many military aged men and was the beginning of the defiance towards the war. (thevietnamwar.info) With so many people fighting the war it was really supported overall by Americans at the start of the war. The Vietnam War affected the relationship between Americans and the government in many ways, some people it strengthened the idea of the government, and many people who were against the war rebelled in many ways to test the governments powers such as skipping the draft, protesting, or anti-war marches.

The Vietnam War was the longest and the most unpopular American war of the twentieth century. The United States was involve in the Vietnam from 1944 to 1973, but it was only during the last years that the U.S deployed ground troops (Lawrence 1). For the first time the United states was the aggressor. Vietnam is situated thousands of miles from the United States, so Vietnam was not a direct threat to the United States’ safety. The Vietnam leader Ho Chi Minh seem to look up to the United States, their declaration of independence is prove of that. The United States involvement was so controversial because to some people the U.S was trying to stop heroic Vietnamese national liberation movement (CITE). Tim O’Brian was a university graduate

The Vietnam War was marked by brutality, death, protests, and psychological tolls. No war caused such great division among the American people like the Vietnam War. The war was extremely costly, and it left long-term effects on people all over the world. As a whole, the American people agree that the Vietnam War was a waste of time, money, and life.

Consequently the Vietnam War was the result of Americans who wanted the spread of communism to not proceed any further. The effect of that desire was that many Americans became more divided than ever before. The Vietnam War was a drawn-out struggle between nationalist forces who wanted to attempt the unifying Vietnam while the country was under a communist government, also you had the United States attempting to end the spread of communism. In other words the Vietnam War was a waste of lives and resources. Despite American opposition, the US still got involved. Not surprisingly, those

Vietnam War was the longest deployment, costly war of America. According a statistic, “more than 58,000 died or remain missing, and 300,000 others were wounded (Anderson, “The Military Diplomatic Vietnam War”). The war caused the loss of nearly 60,000 American lives and millions of Vietnamese casualties. The war caused much grief to many families. Not only is the private pain of soldiers who died, but it was the pain of many families with bereavement. The pain did not stop there, the aftermath of the Vietnam War also caused the loss, the pain for generations today. Moreover, not only the soldiers on the battlefield had to be sacrificed. Many innocent civilians have to make sacrifices in the pointless war. Themselves American soldiers suffer haunted by the brutal images, casualties scene of the war in Vietnam. American soldiers' effort became decrease. In the U.S., many demonstrations were protesting the Vietnam War and require the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. “Opposition to the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s grew into the most extensive antiwar movement in American history” (Miller, “Vietnam War Protest”). Even the Americans have realized the absurdity of the Vietnam War. Americans spent a huge amount of money on this war, many lives were lost. Many people have many different views on the outcome of the Vietnam War and whether Viet Cong has succeed or not caused much controversies.

The Vietnam War certainly left a distaste in the lives of many who have been affected by the war; scholars have become increasingly interested in the interaction between war and public opinion. There have been many scholarly works published on the Vietnam War, but the issue that will be analyzed here is how public opinion changed the course of the war. The first article by Scott Gartner and Gary Segura is titled, “Race, Casualties, and Opinion in the Vietnam War,” it examined how the diverse races within America in combination with the atrocities in the war led to the formation of opinions that were similar in one race but were different in another race. The second article by Paul Burstein and William Freudenburg titled, “The Impact of

The war cemented the idea that the United States was a guardian of liberty abroad as well as created a cultural connect between the North and South. The country had won the war not as two separated segments, but a single communal front. This mindset carried on throughout later conflicts. This cultural concept is most noticeably questioned during the period of the Vietnam War. Mainly students, antiestablishment hippies, and minority groups in particular opposed this war on moral grounds. Their beliefs were that Vietnam was “an unjust, evil, and futile war.”1 Photographs and corresponding’s from the battle front that were printed in the media further cemented the idea that the United States was contributing to unjust and unnecessary blood shed. Martin Luther King preaches his beliefs on the subject. “Polls reveal that almost fifteen million Americans explicitly oppose the war in Vietnam… the Vietnamese people proclaimed their own independence in 1945… yet our government refused to recognize them.”2 This lack of moral basis for war shook the countries belief in America, the great defender of freedom.