What was the controversy about the vietnam war?

Question

?? i have to write 100 words on it for english so i dont need too much detail. Thanks

Answer 1

The criticism of the war in Vietnam started out mainly as a conservative reaction to President Johnson’s policy of fighting for a limited purpose, a negotiated peace, rather than all out victory in Vietnam. Those critics included Senator Barry Goldwater, retired military men, and even some extreme members of the John Birch Society. These people were known as “hawks.” As the President escalated the war effort, and became a hawk himself, his chief critics became known as “doves” and included antiwar protesters, college students and faculty, liberal Democrats, and many other people in various walks of life who felt that the war was immoral, dragging on to no benefit for the US, and was causing increased casualty lists to mount. Many believed the US was fighting a war against the wishes of the majority of the Vietnamese people. These critics felt the war was a civil war in Vietnam between north and south and we had no business interfering. Some supported the communist effort in Vietnam and hoped for a defeat of the “imperialist capitalist” United States. Many Americans felt we were fighting a small, unimportant county, while the real enemy was China and the Soviet Union. There were many demonstrations against the war which took the form of sit ins in college and high school campuses, marches both for and against the war, and editorials written for and against the war. One of the most infamous demonstrations took place at Kent State University, 1970, when National Guard troops fired on Kent State students and protesters and four were killed and eleven were wounded. Nixon had been elected on a promise to Vietnamize the war, meaning more fighting would be turned over to the South Vietnamese army, and to start bringing home American troops. When the President ordered US troops into Cambodia and ordered more bombings, the result was a tremendous uproar at home with more marches and demonstrations. Congress reacted to the antiwar feeling and repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which gave the President the authority to send troops and fight the war in Vietnam. Our purpose in the war is debated to this day.

Answer 2

No beginning, middle or end. The people at home, the middle aged people whose kids were subject to the draft, had fought in or grown up during world war 2. Territory was liberated and progress could be measured on a map. In 1968, the 101st Airborne division fought a bitter and bloody battle for hamburger hill. As soon as the North Vietnamese Army was thrown off the hill, the American Army left. Just an abandoned jungle hill covered with enemy dead. It made no sense and incidents like that gave people back home the impression that the war was not worth fighting. Initially say 1963-1967, the majority of the public supported the American efforts in Vietnam. The turning point came in the period 1968-1970 when the fighting was at its peak in Vietnam and protests, massive 500,000 - 1,000,000 attendees in many cities, were at their peak.

Answer 3

Vietnam has always been rife with conflict. Migrants from China first settled in the tiny, lush country bordering the South China Sea over 3000 years ago. Vietnam boasts a diverse topography of valleys, rivers and highlands. It is home to over 40 million people whose origins stem from an equally diverse mix of tribes and kingdoms that subsisted mostly on what they harvested on terraced parcels of land. Rice was the greatest commodity and is still a major export today. Invasion by neighbouring armies from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and China posed a constant threat. China did finally manage to impose its rule over the country, but the Vietnamese eventually overthrew the imperial yoke in 938 AD. A succession of Vietnamese Emperors brought peace, stability, prosperity and the opportunity for Vietnam to create its own national identity.

Answer 4

2 songs spring to techniques: Ballad of the golf green Berets, sung via Barry Sadler. Very professional Vietnam conflict. in case you return to San Francisco, make certain to placed on Flowrs on your Hair. A music supportive of the hippies and the anti-conflict flow.

Answer 5

This was the first televised war, and people were seeing death every day on the TV. This led to people rethinking why we were there and why our boys had to die. In the end it was bad for the soliders as well, because the protesters took it out on them, calling them baby killers and such, but they were actually mad at the people in charge.

Answer 6

The fact that the US does not have 535 commanders-in-chief was the big controversy. The dems are relearning that lesson today.

Answer 7

This was the first war to be televised and the war to of started right after JFK's assassination. Not a big coincidence.

Answer 8

If you don't know this as an American, what have you learned in school - after all it was in the 1960s - not too far back!!