The Vietnam War

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This paper looks at the social and political consequences in America of the Vietnam War and compares these consequences with the current war in Iraq. The paper looks at the reasons why America went to war with Vietnam, discusses the protests against the war and the reasons for those protests and looks at the war's affect on American society. The paper also compares these aspects to the current war on Iraq, noting both the differences and the similarities between the two.

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"Public and intellectual life underwent a major shift in America after the beginning of the sustained bombing of North Vietnam, in 1965. "What had once been covert was now public policy, and the military conflict in the field would now be an American war" (Tomes, 1998, p. 117). The political protest of the war began to gain as much national attention as the war, as protestors used strategies like teach-ins to raise the level of public cognizance of the war. Johnson's government, which had started out with a series of liberal domestic reform policies, and then turned increasingly to the Americanization of the Vietnam war, caused a confused split in many liberal intellectuals who were unable to make the same kind of moral and policy shift, and split with the government's policy in terms of dissent."

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