Vietnam War
Vietnam War
Military tactics/decisions: we tried to win people over with propaganda. We also used body counts.
Government actions and feelings: We had divided support.
Feelings of the soldiers: Regular army people volunteered and wanted to be there. Draftees did not want to be there.
Causes of the conflicts: Vietnam split into two, communist government in the north and democratic government in the south.
Feelings at home: people against it who were drafted would burn their draft cards and either go to jail or move to Canada. You were either against it and protested or you were for it and though that if it wasn’t stopped communism would spread all over the world.
Source: our substitute.
War on terror
Military tactics/ decisions: They have begun imprisoning the relatives of suspected guerrillas, in hopes of pressing the insurgents to turn themselves in.
Government actions and feelings: They’re proud of the job done by our military but many can’t help wonder if it was worth the high price in blood and treasure.
Feelings of the soldiers: Since the drafting is over people are going because they want to and not because they are forced.
Causes of the conflicts: We invaded after 9/11.
Feelings at home: surveys showed majorities of Americans in support of a timetable for withdrawal. While up to 70% of Americans in one survey favored withdrawal, most prefer to leave gradually over 12 months, and 60% say the U.S. has a moral obligation to the Iraqi people.
I do not think that today’s war on terror is our generation’s Vietnam because we aren’t reacting in the same ways. In some ways it is like it with the amount of bloodshed and the many years we have been there, but I still don’t think it is our generation’s Vietnam.
First of all there is no longer a draft, so people do not have to go if they don’ t want to and there isn’t a “rebellion” from soldiers. Also, the teens and young adults aren’t protesting and experimenting with drugs in the same ways they were during the Vietnam War. To reach this conclusion I listened to the things our substitute had to say and compared it with things I had researched.
I don’t think the Vietnam War had an effect on the war on terror because they are about different reasons. Maybe I’m wrong but I just don’t see how these wars can have any connection.
The war on Vietnam was because we don’t like communism and we were trying to stop them from becoming communists. The war on terror is because of 9/11. They weren’t started over the same things so I don’t think one could’ve affected the other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_and_U.S._Global_War_on_Terror
Military tactics/decisions: we tried to win people over with propaganda. We also used body counts.
Government actions and feelings: We had divided support.
Feelings of the soldiers: Regular army people volunteered and wanted to be there. Draftees did not want to be there.
Causes of the conflicts: Vietnam split into two, communist government in the north and democratic government in the south.
Feelings at home: people against it who were drafted would burn their draft cards and either go to jail or move to Canada. You were either against it and protested or you were for it and though that if it wasn’t stopped communism would spread all over the world.
Source: our substitute.
War on terror
Military tactics/ decisions: They have begun imprisoning the relatives of suspected guerrillas, in hopes of pressing the insurgents to turn themselves in.
Government actions and feelings: They’re proud of the job done by our military but many can’t help wonder if it was worth the high price in blood and treasure.
Feelings of the soldiers: Since the drafting is over people are going because they want to and not because they are forced.
Causes of the conflicts: We invaded after 9/11.
Feelings at home: surveys showed majorities of Americans in support of a timetable for withdrawal. While up to 70% of Americans in one survey favored withdrawal, most prefer to leave gradually over 12 months, and 60% say the U.S. has a moral obligation to the Iraqi people.
I do not think that today’s war on terror is our generation’s Vietnam because we aren’t reacting in the same ways. In some ways it is like it with the amount of bloodshed and the many years we have been there, but I still don’t think it is our generation’s Vietnam.
First of all there is no longer a draft, so people do not have to go if they don’ t want to and there isn’t a “rebellion” from soldiers. Also, the teens and young adults aren’t protesting and experimenting with drugs in the same ways they were during the Vietnam War. To reach this conclusion I listened to the things our substitute had to say and compared it with things I had researched.
I don’t think the Vietnam War had an effect on the war on terror because they are about different reasons. Maybe I’m wrong but I just don’t see how these wars can have any connection.
The war on Vietnam was because we don’t like communism and we were trying to stop them from becoming communists. The war on terror is because of 9/11. They weren’t started over the same things so I don’t think one could’ve affected the other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_and_U.S._Global_War_on_Terror