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Essay 10 - Vietnam War To what extent did Americans support the Vietnam War? Compare and contrast this support with other conflicts, such as World War II. Americans initially supported the Vietnam War with an agenda of conquering the communist nation and wanted to destroy the idea of socialism in the world. As the war continued, the public could visualize the war through the media and opposed the U.S. involvement in the war. Anti-war movement was supported and the Americans lost trust in their leaders. U.S joined the World War II with a reason and many Americans supported, whereas the U.S involvement in the Vietnam War was not supported by many people since it didn’t have a proper reason and a purpose except to show their supremacy and intolerance …show more content…

American involvement in the war was lasted for almost four years and all the citizens were united and participated in the war. Americans showed their national spirit in the war and reinforced American pride with the victory in the war. After the war, significant changes happened politically, economically and socially in the world. The United States and the Soviet Union emerged as rival superpowers. The object of the Vietnam War was to unite their country and the war was initiated with the conflict of the communist regime of North Vietnam which was financed by China and Russia against the South Vietnam supported initially by France and then the United States. The involvement of US was for about 20 years in the war. Initially, US entered the war with an attempt of preventing communism and supported the anti-communist government of South Vietnam. As the people viewed and learned more about the war, the country was divided and the support was withdrawn suddenly and massive protests were held against the war. The North Vietnamese won the war and annexed South Vietnam. Americans didn’t feel any pride because of their defeat in the

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