Vietnam War's Consequences

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"The Vietnam War was the longest of America's wars, lasting at least eight years from the Tonkin Gulf incident of 1965 to the end of direct US participation in combat in 1973. The bookends of the war extend additional years in each direction; American "advisors" were fighting and dying in Vietnam from the beginning of the 1960s, and the summary image of the war's end is the frantic helicopter evacuation from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon in 1975 (Sheehan, 790).

In between those events, the war in Vietnam cost America nearly seventy thousand soldiers' lives, and approximate half a trillion dollars (in present-day value). It helped to lauch the inflationary spiral that dominated the economy of the 1970s and early 1980s; an inflation which requires us to make the specification of "present-day value" above, and which still..."

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