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The U.S. and Vietnam

American life before war

American Life Before the Vietnam War

life before the Vietnam War

Life Before

Life was good in America because the U.S. won against the Koreans but then America got fully involved in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin indecent in 1964.

What was Military service like?

Military Service

From 1940 until 1973, during both peacetime and periods of conflict, men were drafted to fill vacancies in the United States Armed Forces that could not be filled through voluntary means. Active conscription ended in 1973 when the U.S. Armed Forces moved to an all-volunteer military.

Presidents During the Cold War

Presidents During Cold War

Thesis Statement.

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted

Thesis/Themes

The United States should not have been involved in the Vietnam Civil War about communism because of the death, protesting, and negative social effects it caused.

Themes

The Death Toll

The Amount of people that died in the Vietnam War was unnecessary and the majority of people that got drafted and was sent to Vietnam, were 18 and 19 year old's

Theme 1

Protests.

The people that died in Vietnam caused protests all over the America. It got so bad that they would protest the solders that went to Vietnam.

Theme 2

Social Effects.

The social effects that the Vietnam War left on the U.S. makes the war even more not worth fighting. Buddhist monks burned and killed themselves to show how bloody the war was.

Theme 3

Background Info for Cold War

Background Info

What was the Cold War?

What was the Cold War? The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in 1945.

What is it?

Who was involved in the Cold War?

After World War II, the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its satellite states began a decades-long struggle for supremacy known as the Cold War. Soldiers of the Soviet Union and the United States did not do battle directly during the Cold War.

Who was in it?

Why were they fighting?

The Americans and the British feared the permanent Soviet domination of eastern Europe and the threat of Soviet-influenced communist parties coming to power in the democracies of western Europe.

Why were they fighting?

Vietnam Background Information

Vietnam Background info

Was the Vietnam War part of the Cold War

It was part of the overall Cold War confrontation and the American struggle against the spread of Communism in the world.

Part of the Cold War?

Who Backed Who Up.

North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies.

Who Backed Who?

Supporting Details

-There were 58,220 recorded deaths in Vietnam.

-About 15 million Americans took part in the demonstration of October 15, making it the largest protests in a single day up to that point.

-weakened U.S. military morale and undermined, for a time, the U.S. commitment to internationalism and weakened the U.S. economy.

Counter Argument.

While others may say different things, the death toll was unnecessary and could have been avoided.

Counter Argument

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