Social/Economic Impacts:
• While others were fighting in the war there were a lot of anti-war movements around the country that caused a great separation within American society.
• Hundreds of thousands of young people became part of a large nonviolent, diverse and developing popular culture of war resistance group.
• employing tactics ranging from comical street theater to industrial sabotage. Students, government officials, labor unions, church groups and middle class family increasingly opposed the war as it climaxed.
• Students, government officials, labor unions, church groups and middle class family increasingly opposed the war as it climaxed.
• There were Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandals that critically damaged the government’s …show more content…
• During the Vietnam War, factories in the U.S., which used to produce consumer goods, were now converted to produce military equipment. This change caused a plunge in shopping rates and this ended up hurting the economy.
• Military fund that was spent overseas also led to shortages and this caused increasing interest rates and increasing inflation.
• Because of the Vietnam War, American economy was brought down from its growth in early 1960s to an economic crisis in 1970s.
Foreign Policy:
• Under president Lyndon Johnson the U.S. decided to participate in the Vietnam War and it did not work out in their favor. He failed to successfully finish the Vietnam War and sacrificed tens of thousands of American lives only to leave …show more content…
He surrounded himself with applicants like Walt Rostow who told him what he wanted to hear and got rid of those who offered an opposing view (for example, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara).
• Johnson had the opportunity to save his presidency and end the war but he continued to mislead Americans on how the war was going on. This ended up dividing the Democratic Party and his chance of re-election faded away.
Domino Theory:
• The national strategy of containment demanded the U.S. stop communist aggression into the countries of Southeast Asia. This strategy was developed from a belief in the domino theory.
• The domino theory basically stated if one new country went communist in Asia then it would begin a chain reaction that would cause several more Southeast Asian countries becoming communist.
• Lyndon Johnson also promoted the Domino Theory as the justification for U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He eventually sent troops to Vietnam in 1965 while President Nixon escalated the conflict further to Laos and Cambodia.
• American policy makers failed to realize that the ultimate goal of Ho Chi Minh and his supporters was to gain independence rather than spread communism throughout South East
• While others were fighting in the war there were a lot of anti-war movements around the country that caused a great separation within American society.
• Hundreds of thousands of young people became part of a large nonviolent, diverse and developing popular culture of war resistance group.
• employing tactics ranging from comical street theater to industrial sabotage. Students, government officials, labor unions, church groups and middle class family increasingly opposed the war as it climaxed.
• Students, government officials, labor unions, church groups and middle class family increasingly opposed the war as it climaxed.
• There were Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandals that critically damaged the government’s …show more content…
• During the Vietnam War, factories in the U.S., which used to produce consumer goods, were now converted to produce military equipment. This change caused a plunge in shopping rates and this ended up hurting the economy.
• Military fund that was spent overseas also led to shortages and this caused increasing interest rates and increasing inflation.
• Because of the Vietnam War, American economy was brought down from its growth in early 1960s to an economic crisis in 1970s.
Foreign Policy:
• Under president Lyndon Johnson the U.S. decided to participate in the Vietnam War and it did not work out in their favor. He failed to successfully finish the Vietnam War and sacrificed tens of thousands of American lives only to leave …show more content…
He surrounded himself with applicants like Walt Rostow who told him what he wanted to hear and got rid of those who offered an opposing view (for example, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara).
• Johnson had the opportunity to save his presidency and end the war but he continued to mislead Americans on how the war was going on. This ended up dividing the Democratic Party and his chance of re-election faded away.
Domino Theory:
• The national strategy of containment demanded the U.S. stop communist aggression into the countries of Southeast Asia. This strategy was developed from a belief in the domino theory.
• The domino theory basically stated if one new country went communist in Asia then it would begin a chain reaction that would cause several more Southeast Asian countries becoming communist.
• Lyndon Johnson also promoted the Domino Theory as the justification for U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He eventually sent troops to Vietnam in 1965 while President Nixon escalated the conflict further to Laos and Cambodia.
• American policy makers failed to realize that the ultimate goal of Ho Chi Minh and his supporters was to gain independence rather than spread communism throughout South East