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The Vietnam War has been a highly controversial issue both in the modern world and at the time, particularly the US involvement in it. US involvement in the “Twenty-five year war,” as it was also called, lasted from 1950 to 1975, beginning when President Truman send a 35-man military advisory group to aid the French fighting to maintain their colonial power in Vietnam. ... During this period, the famous world-changing Counter-Culture was going on, with movements such as Feminism, Civil Rights, and because of the war, the Anti-war movement. The Counter-Culture had been building for a long time, with World War II as a catalyst for the discontent and crusading of the sixties and seventies. In many ways, the Vietnam War caused the aggregation all of the other movements. ... The French eventually gained full control of Vietnam, but their promises of independence and Vietnamese involvement in the governing of the country came to naught. ... Shortly after, North Korea attacked South Korea, and the Korean war erupted. ... As an experienced military commander, Eisenhower doubted the wisdom of starting another land war in Asia, agreed instead to increase the military advisors to South Vietnam. Vietnam was partitioned at the seventeenth parallel. ... The French withdrawal in 1955 left the US as the only outside supporter of Vietnam. ... Kennedy became President in 1961, there were over fifteen hundred American military advisers in Vietnam. ... ’ (Rotter, xxvi) Kennedy wanted to win in Vietnam to repair the lost prestige in Laos and Cuba. ... By that November, there were 16,000 American troops in Vietnam. ... LBJ grew to be obsessed with the war in Vietnam and with winning the war. No president wanted to be the first to lose a war. ... By 1966, there were almost 200,000 American troops in Vietnam. ... At this point, there were many Americans who disagreed with the war, and there were confrontations between protestors and LBJ’s ‘Truth Squads. ... The Civil-Rights movement also had a strong membership in the Anti-war movement, as the African-Americans felt that they should not be fighting overseas for the rights of others when they did not have rights at home, in the country in whose service they were dying.
Approximate Word count = 1842
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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