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Only 50% of the soldiers with PTSD actually sought out treatment. Out of the 50% that found treatment, only half of them got "minimally adequate" treatment

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The effects of PTSD can be felt in numerous ways.
-Social isolation
-Loss of appropriate occupational functioning, possibly leading to unemployment
-Lacking the ability to have successful, healthy interpersonal relationships
-Separation or divorce
-Substance abuse or addiction
-Development of eating disorders
-Chronic pain
-Suicidal thoughts and behaviors

http://historyofptsd.umwblogs.org/vietnam/

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There are a huge amount of symptoms to PTSD. These include:
-Vivid flashbacks where one feels as though he or she is experiencing the event again.
-Intrusive and repeated memories of the event
-Recurrent nightmares
-Intense physical reactions when reminded of the event (sweating, rapid breathing, pounding heart)
http://www.tenlakescenter.com/ptsd/signs-causes

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Certain neuroimaging studies have that people who are suffering from PTSD have marked differences in the structure of specific parts of their brain. In addition, the levels of dopamine and serotonin tend to be lower in individuals who experience anxiety, which means that the way in which their brains regulate the chemicals in their body that are released in response to stress can lead to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder.
http://www.tenlakescenter.com/ptsd/signs-causes

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When soldiers came home, they were treated poorly and not respected for their duties to their country. This only worsened the symptoms of PTSD in soldiers who suffered from it.
https://thevietnamwar.info/vietnam-war-veterans/

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PTSD can be caused by several different events and depends on many variables such as:
-How strong your reaction was.
-How close you were to the event.
-How intense the trauma was and how long it lasted.
-If someone close to you got hurt.
-How much help was received after the event.
https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/psychological/ptsd.php

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During Vietnam PTSD was being called "Post-Vietnam Syndrome" , "Battle fatigue", and "Shell shock". There was not enough information at the time to fully understand what PTSD was.
https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/psychological/ptsd.php

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It is estimated that roughly 271,000 Vietnam veterans still have PTSD from their time served. It is estimated that PTSD has effected 31% of soldiers that served in Vietnam.
https://medlineplus.gov/magazine/issues/winter09/articles/winter09pg10-14.html

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A huge amount of soldiers that served in Vietnam developed PTSD. One study concluded that a large majority of Vietnam veterans continued to struggle with chronic PTSD 25 years after their experience in Vietnam.
http://www.topvietnamveterans.org/facts-PTSD.html

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is a mental health condition that is triggered by a terrifying event. PTSD is extremely common in soldiers that served in Vietnam.
https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/publications/agent-orange/agent-orange-summer-2015/nvvls.asp

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The Vietnam war showed that the United States should stay away from foreign affairs. It portrayed the United States as a country of savages and hypocrites which deeply hurt our reputation for future foreign encounters. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/01/did-us-learn-any-lessons-vietnam

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China supported its communist ally in china, the soviets. The Chinese leader at the time was Ho Chi Minh.

http://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/chinese-and-soviet-involvement/

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The soviet union backed the North Vietnamese with a communist government. The leader was Ho Chi Minh.

http://www.historynet.com/ho-chi-minh-north-vietnam-leader.htm

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The united states backed the democratic southern Vietnamese government against the Norths communist government.The leader of south Vietnam was Ngo Dinh Diem.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/general-minh-takes-over-leadership-of-south-vietnam

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US goals were to prevent South Vietnam South from being militarily conquered by the Communist North. Tactically, this was supposed to be achieved by killing communist soldiers, by bombing the North into submission, and by winning the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese people.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080515070503AAaCR6y

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As the world’s largest communist powers, both the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China also lent moral, logistic and military support to North Vietnam. Both Moscow and Beijing hoped to consolidate and expand communism in the Asian hemisphere. Not only would the rise of Asian communism help tip the balance against the West in the Cold War, it would also serve Russian and Chinese national interests.

http://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/chinese-and-soviet-involvement/

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At the time when the U.S. had failed to stop communist expansion in Eastern Europe, China, Korea and lately Cuba, Vietnam immediately became another place of concern. In October 1961, after many successful Viet Cong’s attacks, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara recommended sending six divisions to Vietnam.

https://thevietnamwar.info/american-vietnam-war/

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Russia military supplies completely transformed the nature of the war. Unlike what they show you in Hollywood movies, the Vietnamese did not fight with just cunning and camouflage, they hit the Americans with firepower on a staggering scale. Their arsenal included 2,000 tanks, 7,000 artillery guns, over 5,000 anti-aircraft guns and 158 surface-to-air rocket launchers.

https://www.rbth.com/blogs/2015/04/30/vietnam_war_the_critical_role_of_russian_weapons_42917

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The causes of the Vietnam War revolve around the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia. Neither the Soviet Union nor the United States could risk an all-out war against each other, such was the nuclear military might of both. However, when it suited both, they had client states that could carry on the fight for them. In Vietnam, the Americans actually fought  – therefore in the Cold War ‘game’, the USSR could not.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/vietnam-war/the-causes-of-the-vietnam-war/

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Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. ... More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict.

http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war