What are 2 short term effects and long term effects of politics due to the Vietnam War???
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short term:\nstudent protests\n\n\n\nlong term:\nprez can wage war w/o consent of congress
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In Vietnam, the politician's back home 'lost' the war, in Iraq, the tactical operations were left to the military and victory was achieved in days.  The current violence, insurgency and more soldiers dying are the result of an occupation force trying to install a democracy over a people that don't seem to want it. A civil war is brewing and were caught in the quigmire.  \n\nIn Vietnam, tactics of conventional warfare were used to fight non-conventional enemies.  The US Armed Forces relied too much on their great fire power and modern weaponry and equipment. American leaders seemed to be overconfident in their "know-how" in fighting a war that required the more know-how on psychological strategy than just on modern technology\n\nThe Vietnam Communist Party and its regime were strongly supported by the whole Communist bloc. Immense military aids came from Beijing and Moscow. Unofficial sources estimated that aids from Red China and the Soviet Union had been in tens of billion dollars, not far lower than US aids to South Vietnam and American military expenses in the Vietnam War. \n\nMoreover, the Soviet Union, China, North Korea and possibly Cuba joined North Vietnamese Communist forces in direct fighting the Americans in North Vietnam with their combat pilots, and air defense SAM-6 surface-to-air battalions (Soviet). Beijing also sent some infantry divisions to safeguard the northern mountainous area of North Vietnam and many engineer regiments to repair bombed bridges and road in North Vietnam\n\nWe were defeated in Vietnam by the communist bloc at the time, sent packing from the rooftops of the American Embassy.  I don't see a similarity with Vietnam except maybe the discontent among the liberals back home.
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The answer to this question would fill a book and you certainly couldnt do it justice here.\n\nMaybe break the question down into sub questions like what effect did it have immediately during the conflict, what effect did it have on politics, religion, welfare, human rights, future wars etc.\n\nThat will give people a chance to give you good short answers which will then build up a picture.
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Maybe animal experimentation? If you want a source for some information on the topics you mentioned (and a few more), take a look at http://www.balancedpolitics.org/. It'll discuss the pros and cons of each issue.\n\nGood luck with that.
979711
We've been fighting a world war since 2003. Think about it. With the start of Operation Iraq Freedom, this conflict has affect all of Europe, the United States, All of the middle east, and of course now Asia is getting affected because of North Korea's scandal of Nuclear war weapon testings. South Korea is on its toes waiting for an attack, and China is backing up North Korea. Vietnam is on the verge of another civil war because communism is eating up the economy. And with the fall of that trading agreement with the US, Vietnam will be going through a depression (not like it hasn't since the fall of the French) \n\nSo if you think about theoretically we've been in a world war. Everyone is in some ways connected to Iraq.
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You will get a hard core, hung over, post stress case sceaming about Bush and Viet Nam. And maybe that's rightfully so. All situations in VN were not the same.\n\nAfter you fight someone hard you gain a certain respect for each other... VN is no different. \n\nPoliticians, Hanoi Jane and demonstrators who took it out on all veterans caused the worst scars.
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bad effects: costs money, organized crime involvement, spreads desease, etc.\ngood effects: Guess!
727126
Vietnam war was a resource war. We wanted to control the tin, rubber, manganese , the still undeveloped off-shore oil and the largest rice growing region (Mekong Delta) in the world. We poisoned the Delta before we left with Agent Orange and today there are so many deformed births that they are just quietly put down. Vietnam war was a whore just like Iraq.
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Politics makes war go on and on.  We should go in and get the job done but our government leader have to many agendas.  The US is a world leader but not the only one. Our government is trying to make every one happy which makes the war continue. Contact your congressman and tell them to get the job done now. We don't need another Vietnam.  That was a war that politic made us lose.  Powerful money people that support the war with supplies are another reason for the war to continue.  They lobby congress and congress fails to do the right thing.  Let our men and women do the job they were trained for and then we can finish this conflict quickly.
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Socially: Everyone ignored the ban on alcohol and partied a lot.  Economically: The stock market crashed and the economy plunged into a depression.  Politically: People blamed Hoover for the lack of jobs and money and elected FDR.
553881
It was the Vietnam War.  Millions of gallons were used.  A whole lot.  Look it up on Wikipedia or do a google search.
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when the US withdrew from Vietnam, 2 million south vietnamese died.\n\nHow is that not bad?
642689
The Vietnam War ended.  Richard Nixon, President of the U.S., resigned in shame.  Jimmy Carter was elected President.
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Global warming, the impact of technology on society, great works of literature, space exploration, psychology, comparing and contrasting cultures or religions, philosophy, the 'American Dream', animal testing, Shakespeare, fast food and how convenience has affected society, English vs. American authors, mental illness and how it should be treated, fair trade, corporations such as Wal-Mart and how they impact small business, World War II, terrorism and fear in society, nuclear weapons, North Korea... etc.\n\nJust pick anything that you can write a good thesis about and be able to research easily. :)
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One of the unintended side effects was the rise of feminism.\n\nPrior to WWII the men worked and the women stayed home and took care of the family. During the war the work force suddenly became 80+% female while the men were off saving the world from communism.  When the men returned home from the war, "Rosie the riveter" soon found out that she was no longer content cooking, cleaning, and taking care of her man and his kids. \n\nAs a side note, I've got to hand it to the women of WWII. I recently spent the night aboard the USS Lexington as a part of a boy scout outing. This particular ship was known as the "gray ghost" because it was reported as sunk on 5 different occasions but managed to survive (a well constructed ship!). Further, when it was commissioned shortly after Perl Harbor the construction schedule was slated for 4 years. She was completed in two. Both of these outstanding items are attributed to the fact that 80% the construction crew were, in fact, women! \n\nYou go girls!
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The country evolved from being completely communist in politics and economy into a market economy and some lifting of communist polotical control since the 30 years after the war ended. \n\nThe war had put Veitnam into an economic holocoust. Most of the citizens lived in poverty with American sympathisers receiving harsher treatment. Border wars a few years after the American War didn't help the situation. The government spent most of their revenue building up their armed forces at the expense of the citizens. \n\nThree economic reforms starting in 1985 eventually changed the economy from state run to market trade, which has seen the country turning completely around and is beginning to prosper. \n\nMore than half the population of Vietnam was born after the war, who are causing the change in the economy and eventually the politics of the country. They are in need of jobs to support their families, and the state run comapnies are not efficient in producing enough good playing jobs to support them. As the older generation dies, so will communism. \n\nVietnam is now a rapidly developing country that is bursting with opportunities. Saigon is no long tin huts and rice paddies. It is now a very modern city with a skyline that rivals any of the prosperous cities along the pacific rim. If you see it for yourself, you might thinki it could be Irvine, California.
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The biggest issue of the sixties was putting a man on the moon.  Then Kennedy was shot and that was all but overshadowed by the same bunch who brought us Iraq taking us into Vietnam.  Then there was Martin Luther King and the civil rights  movement.  The time was about freedom, the rights of men and women, and what this country should be about.  Some of these issues made it through, while the movement itself was systematically crushed,  partly by the shooting deaths of both Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King, the students at Kent State, the police riot in Chicago against the war demonstrators.  "We  will have no more of this" was the message that came through loud and clear.