Domestic Conflict and the Vietnam War

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"Domestic Conflict Caused by the Vietnam War
This research paper examines the origins, traces the course and analyzes the effects and consequences of the domestic divisions caused by the American involvement in the Vietnam War.


Until the administration of President Lyndon Johnson sharply escalated the military involvement of United States forces in that war in 1965, the domestic antiwar protest movement was weak and scattered, largely a carryover of prior opposition to nuclear atmospheric testing by liberal and radical pacifist organizations and other fringe groups. As the Americanization of the war proceeded without producing demonstrable progress toward officially announced goals, it increasingly polarized American public opinion on the war and energized the antiwar protest..."

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