How Did The Vietnam War Affect Society

Vietnam War “One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam war was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the view public”- Walter Dean Myers. With the many deaths of brave soldiers and innocent citizens, the people’s high view on the government’s opinion for the public decreased drastically. There was a feeling of insecurity and malicious emotions towards the military and the government. The Vietnam war has impacted society because it weakened the American’s faith and confidence in the government, majorly in the military decisions. This war was one of the longest wars that America has ever been apart of, and was the most unpopular war. This was a direct result right after the first Indochina war. It gave America its first loss in a war and political and …show more content…
It illustrated the deterioration that was taking place in the behavior of the US troops and undermined the moral argument about the need to save Vietnam”, the distrust of the government was increasing, and the wall of Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a valuable symbol of the American loss. Without the Vietnam war society would be much different. This is because if the US never went to war in Vietnam, they would have had war in a different country and there would never have been a conflict with Vietnam. There would be more communism in the world even with the US’s attempt to decrease it, if the French did take over Vietnam then there would be less asian diversity as there is now. There would be less people dead or sick if we did go to a different war, and drafting would still be in place for