The Vietnam War: The Dilemmas Of The Hippie Movement

Introduction When the citizens of the United States are asked the question, “What significant event happened in the latter part of the 1900s in the history of the United States?” many people might answer saying that they do not know. Others might answer the question by saying the Hippie Movement, while others might say the Vietnam War, but both answers to the question are correct. However, every event, whether big or small, during the end of the 1900s revolved around the Vietnam War. In the Vietnam War, America sent troops to South Vietnam to aid them in the war against North Vietnam and the Viet Cong where guerrilla warfare was fought and atrocious techniques of strategy were used. As a result, it united the radical youth and sparked the Hippie Revolution where teenagers and young adults protested against the gruesome war in the foreign country. In this paper I will not be talking about the Hippie Movement but I will be focusing on the dilemmas of the Vietnam War and why America should not have …show more content…
The main reason to enter the struggle was because communism was rising quickly in the world, especially in Asia where communism was taking control and influencing many men and their countries to follow its tyrannical ideologies. Mao Zedong 's Communist Party defeated the Nationalist Party and obtained control of China, while the soldiers of North Korea were determined to spread and unite North and South Korea under communism. After World War II, the United States dedicated themselves to the extermination of communism because the Soviet Union focused on their goal of spreading communism. The American government believed the domino theory principle applied to communism where after the fall of one country to communism, many other nations will be affected and be converted to communism, too. When asked in a press conference, President Dwight D. Eisenhower