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Vietnam Dbq

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Should we abandon our country? The Vietnam war was the war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam. Northern Vietnam wanted to spread communism to the Southern part of Vietnam while the Southern part wanted democracy. Many people opposed the war because it was a foreign war and the U.S had no business digging its nose into it. Others claimed that it was intervening with Vietnam’s own independence. During the war the U.S had “drafted” many poor american citizens to fight in the war. Being drafted meant that you were being conscripted into the war because you meet the physical and mental standards to fight in the war. Some people didn’t think that it was fair and fled the country or lied to the federal government. Those people were called “draft dodgers” ( people who got out of the …show more content…

He says “ For every means we have to escalate the enemy can match us...To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic; yet unsatisfactory conclusion.”(Walter Cronkite, Document B pg.1). The reasoning behind this is many Americans thought that the U.S was all powerful and by them joining the war South Vietnam would have a greater chance to win. What many Americans didn’t know was at the time the only action where no unnecessary americans were killed was choosing not to further entregue the the Vietnam forces. If we were to carelessly decided to drop an atomic bomb Vietnam had the power to do the same. To draft-dodgers this meant that they would have joined a war that would only end (at the time all things pointed to it) in a cosmic disaster. This release from Cronkite, who at the time was a very well trusted journalist, influenced people to have the same decision, that joining the war would either end in a nuclear war between both nations, the death of hundreds of thousands of more soldiers, or the invasion of the North which would escalate to more

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