The Vietnam war was the most controversial war to date. The sons of the baby boom had just reached the age to fight, their fathers had raised them preaching on how a man fights in the war when he is needed. But also from the baby boom was the birth of anti government, free mind movement. The vietnam war was a war we had no reason to fight in, in the second world war the United States was attacked by the Japanese. The United States felt threatened by the fact that the N.V.A were communist backed. The fear of the red menace led to the death of 58,307 american lives. They called the first world war the war to change all wars, but Vietnam was the real war to change all wars.
“I saw courage in both the Vietnam war itself and the effort to …show more content…
The world began to have open eyes and saw that war had no real evil. The people saw that the enemy was just the same as us, unlike the second world war that the people in our country are just like them. They have sons and fathers who were being sent to war, to die because we didn 't want the red menace to spread. We were afraid of the rise of communism and the fall of democracy. The North vietnamese were being funded by the USSR whilst we fought alongside the Southern vietnamese forces. General Westmoreland a grusseld world war 2 vet from South Carolina led the United States in Vietnam. Westmoreland answered to directly to Lyndon B Johnson, and was a military strategist. The United States, relied on statistics relayed down from Robert McNamara. McNamara is reported as saying “Westmoreland is the best we have, no question”. When the first wave of US troops arrived in Vietnam we were 16,00 strong. At our peak troop deployment we had 535,000. Westmoreland was the head of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV). Westmoreland led a desvive campaign in the south until the tet offensive beat the united sates down, a surprise attack from the NVA and their fellow forces on the Vietnamese new year. The Tet offensive led to the fall of the united states forces in vietnam, and the united states evacuated from the last occupied city of Saigon on April 30th 1974. The united states may have tried to retreat from …show more content…
We have never just blindly did what we were told to do as we did before. The war opened up the eyes of the American people and showed us how we can change the world when we band together. Vietnam showed us that we were no longer the superpower that we were and the fall of our super country soon followed. Vietnam will leave a lasting impression on our society, we will never forget when America the big the bad and the bold was
“I saw courage in both the Vietnam war itself and the effort to …show more content…
The world began to have open eyes and saw that war had no real evil. The people saw that the enemy was just the same as us, unlike the second world war that the people in our country are just like them. They have sons and fathers who were being sent to war, to die because we didn 't want the red menace to spread. We were afraid of the rise of communism and the fall of democracy. The North vietnamese were being funded by the USSR whilst we fought alongside the Southern vietnamese forces. General Westmoreland a grusseld world war 2 vet from South Carolina led the United States in Vietnam. Westmoreland answered to directly to Lyndon B Johnson, and was a military strategist. The United States, relied on statistics relayed down from Robert McNamara. McNamara is reported as saying “Westmoreland is the best we have, no question”. When the first wave of US troops arrived in Vietnam we were 16,00 strong. At our peak troop deployment we had 535,000. Westmoreland was the head of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV). Westmoreland led a desvive campaign in the south until the tet offensive beat the united sates down, a surprise attack from the NVA and their fellow forces on the Vietnamese new year. The Tet offensive led to the fall of the united states forces in vietnam, and the united states evacuated from the last occupied city of Saigon on April 30th 1974. The united states may have tried to retreat from …show more content…
We have never just blindly did what we were told to do as we did before. The war opened up the eyes of the American people and showed us how we can change the world when we band together. Vietnam showed us that we were no longer the superpower that we were and the fall of our super country soon followed. Vietnam will leave a lasting impression on our society, we will never forget when America the big the bad and the bold was