What makes a war popular or Unpopular?

Question

What did World War 2 have that had everyone enlisting and volunteering for the war effort while with Vietnam and Iraq, people are protesting against the war effort. Isn't the threat of Nazi Germany the same as the threat of Communism and terrorism?

Answer 1

Nazi Germany was built with the help of American corporations. The Soviet Union is an even more blatant example. The US taxpayer kept the USSR afloat for seven decades. It started with Wheat to Russia in the Thirties, Lend Lease during WW2, Building Bridges in the Sixties (including the Kama River Truck Plant), and Detente. Then, thanks to Nixon, we did the same for Red China, which now enjoys most favored nations status.

How much terrorism would we experience had we not gotten involved in the affairs of other nations? I am certainly not defending the terrorists, I am suggesting that our politicians enticed them into attacking us.

To answer your question, what makes a war popular is when it appears victorious. When there is no victory in sight, the war becomes unpopular.

Answer 2

Actually it wasn't the threat of Nazi Germany that created the enlistees for WWII. We didn't get into the war until the Japanese attacked us.

There were plenty of Americans in high and low places that didn't even see the problem with Nazis.

As to what makes a war popular? Maybe that isn't really the question. Maybe the question, are people getting wise to the fact that war is a scam that enriches some very unscrupulous people and helps keep the populations of all the countries in line? Maybe people are just getting tired of war because they have enough information to see through the manipulation.

Could happen. That might be a hopeful evolutionary direction for our civilization.

Answer 3

The U.S. involvement in World War II was popular because most of the Americans supported it. Furthermore, the majority of other nations supported the U.S. during the war.

The Vietnam War and Iraq War are unpopular because American public opinion is very divided on these wars. Also the majority of other nations were opposed to these wars. The fact that only the British are supporting the U.S. in the Iraq war is a clear indication of the war's unpopularity to the rest of the world.
Whereas most European nations are also threatened by terrorism, they view that the invasion of Iraq was not the solution on the war on terror.

Answer 4

It's all about the motives. The "war on terror" has nothing to do with fighting terror. Most people can see that now, so it's not popular. Vietnam was also a questionable motive. WWII was a clear threat with obvious ill intent, where you didn't have to change the justification for war every few months.
Remember this war in Iraq has changed motives: 1# eliminate Weapons of mass destruction ...that didn't work, then it was... #2 liberate the Iraqis. then3#just fight terrorists (which didn't exist in Iraq til we attacked them)
Pearl Harbor was an attack from Japan. 9/11 was mostly Saudis. If Iraq was was about terror why did it involve Iraq not Saudi Arabia??? I digress... sorry

Answer 5

War is never popular. The question is if it is necessary. If Hitler wasn't stopped how would it have affected the entire world? If Iraq wasn't attacked by Bush, how would that have affected the entire world? Did America's involvement in WW ll destroy more or create more Nazis? Did the Iraq invasion destroy more or create more terrorists?

America only entered WW II as a retaliation to Pearl Harbor. The republican politians were against entering WW ll. People will fight to the death when they are convinced that it is necessary and there is no other, viable alternative.

Answer 6

The media. It depends on which side the press is taking. The American press was actually pulling for an American victory in WWII, unlike Vietnam and Iraq where they hope for the Bush administration to fail at all its undertakings, even when it means defeat for our country.

Answer 7

particular, in the previous Vietnam and JFK human beings used to well known the President and help the U. S. and become once patriotic. Now it truly is all about trashing the President, letting our society fall right into a liberal mess, no longer assisting the warfare and troops, and shall we face it, human beings were patriotic for an total 2 weeks after 9-11 and lower back accurate lower back to were they were. shall we do this: -assisting our President and and be UNITED. -Making the monetary device so as that we may be able to live on on a a million income better 0.5 and little ones and someone might want to be homestead even as our youthful ones get homestead from college as a fashion to offer up them from growing a member of gangs, be sure they're attending college. and honestly be father and mom instead of medicating our youthful ones. -help our protection rigidity and and the warfare they wrestle and substances up believing the crap our liberal media places in our faces. Our society has fallen so a techniques into the gutter we anticipate of it really is okay for adult men to kiss on primetime television, and its ok for our youthful ones to observe it, even as shows make a mockery of parenting and we ask your self why our youthful ones do not take us heavily. we've lost all our values, and help, and the overall public is so lied to by way of the media who can blame them for questioning the warfare is incorrect.

Answer 8

because of the footage of what actually happens in war. Prior to Veitnam, war was glamorized. Now people can see the reality of it. But once people started to be affected by the war personally, brothers, father, husbands getting killed, the support starts to fall.

Answer 9

the meaning behind the war

Answer 10

The media.