This era in American history was full of an unneeded war effort, social distrust, free spirits, and presidential scandal. We first took a bit of action in Vietnam when back in the late forties we gave France 2.6 billion to help them fight in Vietnam. Vietnam was not really our war to be in looking back at it. Really we just needed to keep our nose out of Vietnam’s business because even though they were communist they were nowhere near being close enough to us to have the Domino Theory impact our country. It was the first war ever to be televised and shown to the public for what it actually was. This made the war very unpopular to the American public. In all honesty, people didn’t want this war in the first place because really we had nothing to do with what was happening in Vietnam. Finally in 1973 Nixon passed the War Powers Act which pretty much reduced his power to send troops over to Vietnam. Nixon really wasn’t sending troops at the time that was more presidents before him. This act really helped bring the American society to being happier with their government then they were. Soon enough the United States hits another pothole which is Watergate. Nixon was projected to win the election for his second term in a landslide, but that wasn’t enough for him. He had wire taps and agents spying on democratic officials to see what they had planned for their upcoming candidate. Soon evidence was found that someone was spying on the Democrats and they got busted. Even though there wasn’t any clear definite evidence that Nixon was involved all the scrutiny and accusations caused him to resign. This scandal had a lasting impact on the US in the sense that we had major trust issues with the presidents and if what they tell us is true or
This era in American history was full of an unneeded war effort, social distrust, free spirits, and presidential scandal. We first took a bit of action in Vietnam when back in the late forties we gave France 2.6 billion to help them fight in Vietnam. Vietnam was not really our war to be in looking back at it. Really we just needed to keep our nose out of Vietnam’s business because even though they were communist they were nowhere near being close enough to us to have the Domino Theory impact our country. It was the first war ever to be televised and shown to the public for what it actually was. This made the war very unpopular to the American public. In all honesty, people didn’t want this war in the first place because really we had nothing to do with what was happening in Vietnam. Finally in 1973 Nixon passed the War Powers Act which pretty much reduced his power to send troops over to Vietnam. Nixon really wasn’t sending troops at the time that was more presidents before him. This act really helped bring the American society to being happier with their government then they were. Soon enough the United States hits another pothole which is Watergate. Nixon was projected to win the election for his second term in a landslide, but that wasn’t enough for him. He had wire taps and agents spying on democratic officials to see what they had planned for their upcoming candidate. Soon evidence was found that someone was spying on the Democrats and they got busted. Even though there wasn’t any clear definite evidence that Nixon was involved all the scrutiny and accusations caused him to resign. This scandal had a lasting impact on the US in the sense that we had major trust issues with the presidents and if what they tell us is true or