2020 What were the political, social, and economic factors of the Vietnam War, and how did they affect U.S. society? by Sarah Haeberlin-Cope

2020 What were the political, social, and economic factors of the Vietnam War, and how did they affect U.S. society? by Sarah Haeberlin-Cope https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1 You can add words, pictures, or videos that respond to the prompt. You and your partner are responsible for at least five pieces of content, only one of which can be in your own words. Be sure to include your names when posting. en-us 2020-03-04 21:50:53 UTC 2025-11-17 22:01:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Soviet Domino Effect glynnboltman https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455384521 2020-03-05 20:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455384521 The Domino Theory xuj2 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455385013 2020-03-05 20:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455385013 Currency change https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455385434 2020-03-05 20:36:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455385434 Domino eustaquiof https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455385843 2020-03-05 20:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455385843 Robert McNamara in a memo to President Lyndon Johnson on May 19, 1967 salkoffn https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455386001 “There may be a limit beyond which many Americans and much of the world will not permit the United States to go. The picture of the world’s greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 non-combatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny, backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.” ]]> 2020-03-05 20:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455386001 President Johnson, quoting the words of a woman who wrote to him. cherryb2 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455386239 "Why must young Americans, born into a land exultant with hope and with golden promise, toil and suffer and sometimes die in such a remote and distant place?...
[The war] is guided by North Viet-Nam and it is spurred by Communist China. Its goal is to conquer the South, to defeat American power, and to extend the Asiatic dominion of communism... Our power, therefore, is a very vital shield. If we are driven from the field in Viet-Nam, then no nation can ever again have the same confidence in American promise, or in American protection."]]> 2020-03-05 20:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455386239 Alyssa izy https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455386690 2020-03-05 20:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455386690 "Throwing Stones" Grateful Dead salkoffn https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455386874 Click flash blade in ghetto night,
Rudies looking for a fight.
Rat cat alley, roll them bones.
Need that cash to feed that jones.
And the politicians throwin' stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.

Commissars and pin-stripe bosses
Roll the dice.
Any way they fall,
Guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray,
Selling guns 'stead of food today.]]> 2020-03-05 20:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455386874 Tet Offensive eustaquiof https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387079 “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” —AP correspondent Peter Arnett quoting a U.S. major on the decision to bomb and shell Ben Tre on February 7, 1968 after Viet Cong forces overran the city in the Mekong Delta forty-five miles south of Saigon during the Tet Offensive.]]> 2020-03-05 20:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387079 schultzk6 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387397 2020-03-05 20:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387397 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387463 Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
-Nixon ]]> 2020-03-05 20:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387463 Alyssa Izy https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387560 2020-03-05 20:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387560 Cost of Wars as a Percent of GDP xuj2 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387676 2020-03-05 20:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387676 Fortunate Son listero https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387736 Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no - Olivia Lister and Ryan Foltz]]> 2020-03-05 20:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387736 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387771 2020-03-05 20:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387771 Draft Evasion of Muhammad Ali lujang1 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387793 2020-03-05 20:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387793 Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America -- not on the battlefields of Vietnam. https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387844 2020-03-05 20:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387844 War By Proxy glynnboltman https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387977 "We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior."

]]> 2020-03-05 20:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455387977 guptag2 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388360 2020-03-05 20:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388360 schultzk6 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388470 2020-03-05 20:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388470 change of Inflation rate before and after Vietnam War xuj2 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388504 2020-03-05 20:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388504 Alyssa Izy https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388679 2020-03-05 20:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388679 ballingerc https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388747 2020-03-05 20:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388747 Dr. Martin Luther King's speech opposing the Vietnam War cherryb2 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388886 “I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam,” King said. “The world now demands that we admit that we have been wrong from the beginning of our adventure in Vietnam. In order to atone for our sins, we should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war.”]]> 2020-03-05 20:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388886 The Jan. 24, 1973 New York Times front page reports that President Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.By Michael Gonchar eustaquiof https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388965 2020-03-05 20:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388965 lujang1 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388974 2020-03-05 20:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388974 Consequences https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388997 The Vietnam War has an estimate of 2 million death for citizen and 1.1 million Vietnamese troops, 200,000 South Vietnamese, and 58000 U.S. troops who were wounded.

]]> 2020-03-05 20:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455388997 Olivia Lister and Ryan Foltz listero https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389016 2020-03-05 20:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389016 Department of State's Policy Statement guptag2 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389160 “Our long-term objectives are… to see installed a self-governing nationalist state which will be friendly to the US… We have an immediate interest in maintaining in power a friendly French Government, to assist in the furtherance of our aims in Europe. This immediate and vital interest has in consequence taken precedence over active steps looking toward the realization of our objectives in Indochina.” ]]> 2020-03-05 20:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389160 Cartoon (Lucy) salkoffn https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389179 2020-03-05 20:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389179 ballingerc https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389553 2020-03-05 20:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389553 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389583 2020-03-05 20:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389583 beilkej https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389584 "Johnson gradually grew more confident that his Vietnam policy had the support of the American people. Both Democrats and Republicans approved Johnson’s escalation in Vietnam, and so did public opinion polls in 1965 and 1966."]]> 2020-03-05 20:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389584 Inflation Because of the Vietnam War wiebeb https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389676 2020-03-05 20:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389676 President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking at a press conference-1954 guptag2 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389773 “You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.”]]> 2020-03-05 20:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389773 schultzk6 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389911 2020-03-05 20:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455389911 hsuehc https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390133 2020-03-05 20:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390133 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390281 2020-03-05 20:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390281 Olivia Lister and Ryan Foltz listero https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390322 2020-03-05 20:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390322 Public Image during the War wiebeb https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390393 President Johnson's Great Society programs competed with the war for scarce resources, and constituencies who might have supported liberal social programs turned against the president as a result of the war. The war also made Americans, especially the baby boomer generation, more cynical and less trusting of government and of authority.]]> 2020-03-05 20:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390393 (Lucy) salkoffn https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390473 An open letter to president Johnson signed by several hundred university faculty questioning the United States war with Vietnam, March 1, 1965

While some soldiers did indeed resent the antiwar movement, thousands of soldiers also actively opposed the Vietnam War. They petitioned, demonstrated, and organized opposition, from San Francisco to New York, from Idaho to South Carolina, and even in Vietnam. As the fighting stretched on, many soldiers grew disillusioned with the war and distrustful of the American government. The government insisted the war was being won, but from the soldier's perspective, the war was far from over. The increased physical and psychological deterioration that both volunteers and draftees experienced led to high rates of drug abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Illicit 🤬 like 🤬, opium, morphine, and heroin were widely available to American soldiers in Vietnam. The frustration in some units contributed to a breakdown in the discipline leading to mutinies and desertion.

]]> 2020-03-05 20:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390473 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390613 2020-03-05 20:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390613 Economic Theory's Contributions to the war glynnboltman https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390793 "The 17th parallel split Vietnam in half. 🤬 Chi Minh, backed by China and Russia, took the northern territory. A democracy, backed by the United States, took the southern territory. As a result, North Vietnam became communist and South Vietnam based its economy on capitalism."]]> 2020-03-05 20:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390793 ballingerc https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390796 2020-03-05 20:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455390796 ballingerc https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455391074 “You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.” —Viet Minh leader 🤬 Chi Minh in awarning to French colonialists in 1946.]]> 2020-03-05 20:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455391074 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455391245 2020-03-05 20:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455391245 ballingerc https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455391269 The spread of communism and the after affects of the Cold War caused the social aspect society to change and eventually lead to the Vietnam war. ]]> 2020-03-05 20:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455391269 President John F. Kennedy on the war guptag2 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455391691 “Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place.”]]> 2020-03-05 20:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455391691 Standing On the Moon - Grateful Dead salkoffn https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392037 Standing on the moon
I see the battle rage below
Standing on the moon
I see the soldiers come and go
There's a metal flag beside me
Someone planted long ago
Old Glory standing stiffly
Crimson, white and indigo - indigo

I see all of Southeast Asia
I can see El Salvador
I hear the cries of children
And the other songs of war
It's like a mighty melody
That rings down from the sky
Standing here upon the moon
I watch it all roll by - all roll by]]> 2020-03-05 20:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392037 “Our long-term objectives are… to see installed a self-governing nationalist state which will be friendly to the US… We have an immediate interest in maintaining in power a friendl https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392301 2020-03-05 20:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392301 Olivia Lister and Ryan Foltz listero https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392470 2020-03-05 20:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392470 The American Hostages wiebeb https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392606 President Jimmy Carter's ability to use military force to free American hostages in Iran in 1979 and 1980, and deterred President Ronald Reagan from seeking congressional approval to fund the Nicaraguan contras in the early 1980s.]]> 2020-03-05 20:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392606 Martin Luther King Jr., April 1967 hsuehc https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392643 “Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home… I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.”]]> 2020-03-05 20:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392643 Olivia Lister and Ryan Foltz listero https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392799 2020-03-05 20:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392799 Ronald Reagan-1965 guptag2 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392848 “It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas.”]]> 2020-03-05 20:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455392848 Robert F. Kennedy, January 1968 hsuehc https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455393271 “Are we like the God of the Old Testament that we can decide, in Washington, what cities, what towns, what hamlets in Vietnam are going to be destroyed?… Do we have to accept that?… I do not think we have to. I think we can do something about it.”]]> 2020-03-05 20:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455393271 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455927187 Riley Bea]]> 2020-03-06 17:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455927187 Helena Libang and Alyssa Rice https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455927705 "The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and the possibilities of a decent America"

-Martin Luther King]]> 2020-03-06 17:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455927705 Ravi Singh & Teagan Olmstead https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455927828 “You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower]]> 2020-03-06 17:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455927828 Shayla,Verity, and Karen https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455928058 “The Vietnam Was was like a wound that would never heal” -Ed Sanders]]> 2020-03-06 17:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455928058 Dom max marc https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455928322 2020-03-06 17:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455928322 Mckayla and Afsaneh https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455928524 2020-03-06 17:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455928524 Afsaneh, McKayla https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455928584 2020-03-06 17:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455928584 Riley Bea https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455928849 2020-03-06 17:58:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455928849 Verity, Shayla, Karen https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455929277 Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America -- not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

MARSHALL MCLUHAN, Montreal Gazette, May 16, 1975

]]> 2020-03-06 17:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455929277 Bea and Riley https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455929330 “You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.” —President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking at a press conference on April 7, 1954]]> 2020-03-06 17:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455929330 Bea and Riley https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455929734 “We do this [escalating U.S. military involvement in Vietnam] in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam—and all who seek to share their conquest—of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.”—President Lyndon Johnson, speaking to the nation on April 7, 1965 explaining his decision to send U.S. combat troops to Vietnam.]]> 2020-03-06 17:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455929734 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455929986 Riley Bea]]> 2020-03-06 18:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455929986 Ravi Singh & Teagan Olmstead https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455930300 “Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place.” —President John Kennedy]]> 2020-03-06 18:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455930300 Teagan and Ravi- Muhammad Ali Quote https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455930565 “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?... This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality... I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”

-Muhammad Ali

]]> 2020-03-06 18:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455930565 Asfanahe mckayla https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455930703 2020-03-06 18:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455930703 Marc dom max https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455931216 You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.

🤬 CHI MINH, a warning to French colonialists, 1946

]]> 2020-03-06 18:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455931216 Afsaneh, McKayla https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455931291 During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.

Ben Shapiro

]]> 2020-03-06 18:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455931291 Ravi Singh & Teagan Olmstead https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455931827 “We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” —President Lyndon Johnson ]]> 2020-03-06 18:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455931827 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455932032 Shayla Verity and Karen]]> 2020-03-06 18:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455932032 Verity, Shayla, Karen https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455932224 The Vietnam War was arguably the most traumatic experience for the United States in the twentieth century. That is indeed a grim distinction in a span that included two world wars, the assassinations of two presidents and the resignation of another, the Great Depression, the Cold War, racial unrest, and the drug and crime waves.

DONALD M. GOLDSTEIN,

]]> 2020-03-06 18:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455932224 Helena Libang and Alyssa Rice https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455932525 Protesters burn their draft cards outside the Pentagon in 1972.]]> 2020-03-06 18:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455932525 Afsaneh, McKayla https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455932547 Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.

Gore Vidal

]]> 2020-03-06 18:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455932547 Ravi Singh & Teagan Olmstead https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455932808 “Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”—President Richard Nixon]]> 2020-03-06 18:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455932808 Karen Verity Shayla https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455933416 Although both popular imagination and academic research on the Vietnam War continue to flourish, there is no consensus in sight. Only the U.S. Civil War rivals the power of the Vietnam War to divide and inflame generations upon generations of Americans.

ANDREAS W. DAUM, America, the Vietnam War, and the World

]]> 2020-03-06 18:05:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455933416 Helena Libang & Alyssa Rice https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455933543 “My solution to the problem would be to tell them frankly that they’ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Ages.”

-General Curtis E. LeMay]]> 2020-03-06 18:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455933543 Katia, xavier, Jake https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455934015 The Vietnam War was arguably the most traumatic experience for the United States in the twentieth century. That is indeed a grim distinction in a span that included two world wars, the assassinations of two presidents and the resignation of another, the Great Depression, the Cold War, racial unrest, and the drug and crime waves.

-Donald m Goldstein

]]> 2020-03-06 18:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455934015 Dom marckk max https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455934146 2020-03-06 18:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455934146 Helena Libang and Alyssa Rice https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455934242 “Hey, Hey LBJ, How many kids did you kill today?”

-Common Protest Chant popular in 1967]]> 2020-03-06 18:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455934242 Dom max marc https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455934765 2020-03-06 18:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455934765 Helena Libang and Alyssa Rice https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455935174 “For it seems now more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.”
—Walter Cronkite in an editorial]]> 2020-03-06 18:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455935174 Katia Jake xavier https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455936197 The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture -- aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.
-Stephen vinzinczey

This quotes means that America only cares for its own interests. Conflicts abroad are inconsequential to its government and citizens.]]> 2020-03-06 18:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455936197 Dom marc max https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455941549 2020-03-06 18:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455941549 DEDE , Marissa https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455993672 "Both sides wanted the same thing: a unified Vietnam. But while 🤬 and his supporters wanted a nation modeled after other communist countries, Bao and many others wanted a Vietnam with close economic and cultural ties to the West." - History

]]> 2020-03-06 19:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455993672 Max Canfield & Giovana Cibulsky https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455995601 No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
-Richard M. Nixon]]> 2020-03-06 19:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455995601 DEDE and Marissa https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455995958 2020-03-06 19:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455995958 Max Canfield & Giovana Cibulsky https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455998022 I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
-John Wooden]]> 2020-03-06 19:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455998022 Marissa and Dede https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455998860 "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-President John F. Kennedy]]> 2020-03-06 19:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455998860 dEdE & Marissa https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455999488 2020-03-06 19:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/455999488 Max Canfield & Giovana Cibulsky https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456000381 2020-03-06 19:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456000381 Marissa and DeDe https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456001218 2020-03-06 19:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456001218 Max Canfield and Giovana Cibulsky https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456005043 2020-03-06 19:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456005043 Giovana Cibulsky & Max Canfield https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456005345 2020-03-06 19:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456005345 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456038646 Abby and Meg ]]> 2020-03-06 20:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456038646 Thomas W and Kylie D https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456039341 2020-03-06 20:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456039341 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456039362 Abby and Meg]]> 2020-03-06 20:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456039362 Jeffrey&Beck https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456039558 2020-03-06 20:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456039558 Amy & Britta https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456039684 https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history]]> 2020-03-06 20:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456039684 Amy & Britta https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456040273 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/fPANrTKpVF1ESUvIu4a3fj8ETzWc6MB6CFtNXCU-7vHZrEe878rgr6sKZ1oBtzqoib0CfjPe2PhDEQ85qOUbf8AzwCiOIHtnag3nMIojyurARcHzzEjJ8_tKOOTbmyB5Qu2BuAZ_liUs5AuL7Q]]> 2020-03-06 20:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456040273 Abby and Meg https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456040828 "You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower]]> 2020-03-06 20:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456040828 Abby and Meg https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041122 2020-03-06 20:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041122 Amy & Britta https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041174 “All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”—The first lines of the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, issued on September 2, 1945, quoting the American Declaration of Independence.]]> 2020-03-06 20:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041174 Nick and Griffin https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041211 The song "We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place" contains lyrics about the US involvement In Vietnam.]]> 2020-03-06 20:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041211 Britta and Amy https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041279 “I guess it was hard for him to look at the logic behind the draft lotteries, because that same logic had taken away his father]]> 2020-03-06 20:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041279 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041422 Abby and Meg]]> 2020-03-06 20:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041422 nick and griffin partridgen https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041440 2020-03-06 20:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041440 https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041589 Abby and Meg]]> 2020-03-06 20:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456041589 Jeffrey & Beck https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456042364 Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones]]> 2020-03-06 20:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456042364 Nicholas & Griffin partridgen https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456042442 American nationalism post Vietnam war]]> 2020-03-06 20:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456042442 Thomas W and Kylie https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456042824 2020-03-06 20:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456042824 Jeffrey&Beck https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456042858 “I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

]]> 2020-03-06 20:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456042858 Matthew & Tucker https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456042956 2020-03-06 20:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456042956 Thomas W and Kylie https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456043596 We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the Anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University California, Berkeley.
Bobby Seale]]> 2020-03-06 20:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456043596 Thomas and Kylie https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456044026 Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.

Muhammad Ali

]]> 2020-03-06 20:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456044026 Matthew & Tucker https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456045287 The advocacy of Vietnam veterans was critical to getting
governments, mental health professionals and the broader
community to accept the impact of war on their mental
health. The Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Study demonstrated the importance of epidemiological studies in
providing independent evidence about the legitimacy of the
veterans’ concerns. The focus of veterans’ advocacy
increasingly broadened with time to focus on how their
children were indirect victims of war. However, the challenges in designing epidemiological studies to investigate
the impact of veterans’ combat experience on the health of
their children should not be underestimated because of the
many potential confounding factors that need to be
considered.
- International Journal of Epidemiology, ]]> 2020-03-06 20:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456045287 griffin and nick partridgen https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456045794 2020-03-06 20:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456045794 Jeffrey&Beck https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456045834 2020-03-06 20:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456045834 Tucker and Matthew https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456045938 “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” —AP correspondent Peter Arnett]]> 2020-03-06 20:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456045938 Thomas and Kylie https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456046491 2020-03-06 20:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456046491 Matthew & Tucker https://padlet.com/sarah_haeberlin_cope/ikdro00bt2z1/wish/456048396 America didn’t just lose the war, and the lives of 58,000 young men and women; Vietnam changed us as a country. In many ways, for the worse: It made us cynical and distrustful of our institutions, especially of government. For many people, it eroded the notion, once nearly universal, that part of being an American was serving your country.

- New York Times

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