Was the vietnam war considered a controversial social problem back then?

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Thankes People

Cut the sarcasm!!!

Why was teh reason for the US to attack Vietnam, though i know it is BSed

Answer 1

knock it off guys he wasn't born yet !

Yeah it was pretty bad. Some of us had POW bracelets, some of the hippies spit on the troops coming home ( and there are a lot of us making sure that they all feel welcomed home and appreciated while they are there.)
What a lot of the loudest old timers forget though is that Nixon ended the war
Johnson and Kennedy (democrats) escalated it
but they didn't like Nixon so they give him and the republicans, no credit.
jackzen you were an 8 year old third grader when it was over!!!!!!!! were did you grow up Haight -Ashbury?LOL yeah you were there. but you still believed in Santa Clause when it was over!!!!

Answer 2

Yes, the Second Indochina War was controversial. Most people in the US supported the war during the early years but from around 1965 onwards, and especially following the Tet Offensive of 1968, people in the US started to change their minds and actively protested against the war. Even the very conservative CBS news anchorman, Walter Cronkite, turned against the war within 6 weeks of Tet. The same in Australia -- from about 1954 until the Australian ground troops were sent in in 1965 (Advisory teams were in Vietnam from 1961 until 1972) people in Australia knew little about the war and it was only after National Service was introduced and sent overseas that the protest movement escalated dramatically and finally led to a change of government in December 1972 and the withdrawal of Australian troops.

The war was illegal as as Vietnam technically was one country occording to the 1954 Geneva aggreements, with the Viet Minh to move north of the 17th parallel and the French to move south of the 17th parallel and the two areas were only TEMPORARY Military Demarcation areas with elections to take place in 1956. The US installed a dictator in the southern region, delared it a country and violated every part of the 1954 geneva agreements causing dissent in the south which led to the war with armed conflict starting around 1957 and the NLF of the south (the so-called Viet Cong) was formed in December 1959. The North (PLAV or called NVA by the US forces and its allies) did not get involved militarily in the war until 1965 and the US had already landed "Marines" at Da Nang.

Answer 3

The Vietnam conflict isn't the area that became the revolution. The revolution happened whilst the North Vietnamese desperate to grow to be Communist below the rule of thumb of Ho Chi Minh, and that they fought off the French who knew the area as Indo-China.

Answer 4

Oh yes. All you have to do is listen to some of the music from the 70's to get a real feel for what was going on. The movie Forest Gump depicts the era very well. People were rioting and burning flags and bras. Sex and drugs were part of the free love hippy movement and society was changing forever. I can't believe I survived it. Peace Man

PS It kinda sounds like now doesn't it. The fashions are very much the same too.

Answer 5

I was born in early '64, and let me tell you...

The Iraq war is the same friggin' mess all over again, (they didn't learn a damn thing from Vienam, and we got the The Wall in D.C. to remind us of that) and, until the number of returning body bags carrying the remains of our brave soldiers reaches a point where even hard core conservatives start to flinch...
It will keep going 'til politicians vote to stop it...(this one's even worse, cause oil is at stake).
Last time, the "hippies" generation formed from the discontent of the teenagers at the high body count, since most of the body bags were filled with teenagers (kinda like this time, too..)
Free love probably wasn't the best idea, but the peaceful protests were definitely helping to sway the conservative side over a little...after all, it was their kids that were protesting...
Where are today's "hippie" generation?
Us forty-something's need a little help on this one...
The generation above us (the old cronies) rely on war to keep control.
We need to vote them out...

As smart as we Americans are, we should be ashamed we're in a war...
Whatever happened to shrewd Diplomacy and enforced economic sanctions that really worked...or common sense intelligence, for that matter...
The Vietnam War was "controversial" to the max...
Ask any proud veteran...
Their job is to fight these wars, so we're all caught between a rock and a military place, where
honor is served, but national common sense goes out the window, and even the elite warriors of our military begin to question the "true" reasons to engage in warfare for an indeterminable amount of time against an enemy that has no uniform...

Answer 6

It was a nightmare from start to finish. It just about destroyed America---and George W. Bush is intent on finishing the job, with his new "war" adventure.
Kids were drafted and sent to die in a jungle hell for no reason at all. The ones that weren't killed outright died from cancer because of exposure to Agent Orange. Many returning vets came back with drug problems because of the drug use in Viet Nam. Worst of all, the War was a pointless exercise, indulged in just to make huge profits for the war profiteers----exactly like Iraq is now.
Watch the movie APOCALYPSE NOW --- go into that hell for 10 years, and you'll have Viet Nam. That's the way it was.

Answer 7

Yes, originally everyone who joined the military did so out of obligation for living in the greatest country in the world. It wasn't until later the reason we were there in the first place was to take over control of Exxons old oil fields. And now Georgie-boy is doing the same thing. What gets me is that most people never seem to wise up to what all politicians do to further their own aims at the expense of the majority of the people who believe in the country and their leaders and are always let down.

Answer 8

It was a HUGE problem. There was a draft, there were nationwide protests much larger than you see today, the war became more and more unpolular, President Johnson declined to run for a second term because of the war's unpopularity...

Answer 9

Without a doubt. And the protests were anything but pretty...very trying times, to say the least.

Answer 10

Our sick nation was just killing millions in a small nation...americans do not care

The VIETNAMESE people had 1000 times the guts and backbone the americans ever had

I salute the day the amercan rats were thrown out of Vietnam

The USA is a vicious rotten hearted nation.....