Vietnam War Dbq

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The Vietnam War was one of the bloodiest wars in American history resulting in the death of nearly sixty thousand American troops even though most citizens back home opposed our involvement in the war. This wasn’t always the case though, when the United States joined the war effort in 1965 most Americans supported the decision whole heartedly. Our reason for joining was to stop the spread of communism but as the war went on it seemed like this reason wasn’t good enough for many American citizens. Some reasons the American public felt this way are as follows; corruption of many high ranking government leaders, the opposing Vietcong troops were using primitive dishonorable tactics to gain an advantage over the anti communist forces and the death

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