Because the American government openly supported the Christian Diem, the South Vietnamese were almost as against American involvement as the North Vietnamese by the time of the Tet Offensive. The Americans’ failure to keep the North Vietnamese at bay only added further tension between the United States and the people they were trying to help. Back in the U.S., protest was growing to the point that full engagement in Vietnam was becoming difficult. Opposition to the draft was an extremely crucial form of protest. Literally, “tens of thousands fled to Canada or Europe to avoid the draft” (Wills 29).
was involved with. In the late 1960’s, Ted opposed the war his brother John had began against Vietnam. He made a trip to Vietnam in 1965 and returned to the U.S. in 1968 because he was shocked by the corruption of the South Vietnamese government. In 1973, he sponsored a successful resolution against any further spending on the war. His experience with Vietnam influenced his thinking on military intervention.
The TeT offensive was a last ditch effort for the communists. They knew they were losing the war and needed to go to the peace talks. They were ready to end the war. Since the anti-war movement was pressuring the U.S. government to stop bombing North Vietnam, the politicians, scared of losing votes, ceased bombing. Once the communists realized this, they thought they would wait before going to the peace talks.
In 1965, Lyndon Johnson was the nation’s president and he was “vehemently opposed to hallucinogenic drugs, holding them responsible for the social turmoil of the 1960s”[17] even singling LSD out and denouncing it in a later State of the Union address. LBJ had some policymaking to undertake. He passed The Drug Abuse Control Amendments in 1965 which amended the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 by prohibiting depressant, stimulant, and hallucinogenic substances. These amendments saw a drop in the use of LSD, but a black market emerged and flourished, much the chagrin of the claimsmakers and people who wanted to wipe out the problem of LSD use. Hearing the cries of the public and trying for better policy outcomes, President Johnson cracked down harder on LSD.
The English-Canadians sought after full conscription like Britain and the United States, while the French-Canadians still did not want any form of conscription. The countries unity was slowly crumbling but still Mackenzie King did not institute conscription. He felt there had to be other ways to solve the emerging problems then conscription. (Cruxton and Wilson, 263). In 1917, Borden felt the lack of troops was so awful that there was no choice but conscription.
Aiming to win back support from the American’s, as many people did not support the Vietnam war due to the bad media that was publicised. This was the first War to be so publicised and it shocked many of the people back home. This lead to Anti-War protest, which became one of the US governments aims to stop. However they still stuck to the aim to try and contain Vietnam from the spread of communism and supporting the SV defeat the VC in nearby country Cambodia. On the other side the aims of the NV government and their terrorist organisation the VC did not alter as they still aimed to persuade the SV government to vote for Vietnam to become a communist country.
Americans had hated and feared Communism ever since it had appeared in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and had refused to recognize the new Soviet government, especially after Bolshevik leaders promoted the destruction of capitalism. During World War II, Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill delayed their decision to open a second front, which would have distracted the Nazis and taken pressure off the Red Army entrenched at Stalingrad. Stalin resented this delay, just as he resented the fact that the United States and Great Britain refused to share their nuclear weapons research with the Soviet Union. After the war, Truman’s decision to give Great Britain relief loans while denying similar requests from the USSR only added to the resentment. Another major factor contributing to the Cold War was the fact that the United States and USSR were the only two powers to escape World War II relatively unharmed.
President Bush had not trusted Saddam Hussein and he didn’t want rest of America to either. President George W. Bush had gathered enough “evidence” against Iraq and Saddam Hussein that America had been deceived by these false statements and they were too terrified for their own safety that they had decided to allow president Bush go to war with
These groups were determined to prevent integration at all costs. In 1957 the principal of Little Rock High School was getting death threats and threats to bomb the school. Yet another cause was that Eisenhower had little faith in the measures to support the Black community in the south because a change in heart was required and you can not enforce that. He felt that enforcing these laws may make matters even worse. When Eisenhower finally did something and sent the 1,000 paratroopers, a lot of the people in America were extremely annoyed, the west and north were angry that it didn't happen sooner and the south were angry that it happened at all, and disowned Eisenhower as a southerner.
It made people begin to lose hope in our ability to win the war, and led to increased questioning of the President’s tactics for the war. When the Pentagon announced the number of U.S. casualties sat that point in the war, President Johnson knew his popularity was lost and decided not to run for