The Great Society

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The Great Society

The United States of America has fought numerous wars in its history those that are battled at home and those that involved other nations The Vietnam War is recorded as the longest battle the Americans had undergone in their whole history . This armed conflict had not been easy because it encountered other problems aside from the military combat itself . The dilemma that took place during those times were expressed in the statement made by President Lyndon Johnson , when he said that p

I knew from the start that I was bound to be crucified either way I moved . I really loved-the Great Society-in to get involved with that bitch of a war on the other side of the world then I would lose everything at home . All my programs . But if I left that war and let the Communists take over South Vietnam , then I would be seen as a coward and my nation would be seen as an appeaser , and we would both find it impossible to accomplish anything for anybody anywhere on the entire globe (Zeitz , n .p

The Vietnam War took place between 1945 and 1954 , wherein the Vietnamese declared war against France . The United States of America supported this war by funding the Vietnamese with 2 .6 billion . The defeat of France at Dien Bien Phu was later on followed by a peace conference in Geneva that declared the independence of Laos , Cambodia , and Vietnam . However Vietnam was divided , as its southern part became anti-Communist and the northern part as communist . In the year 1956 , South Vietnam , which was supported by the U .S , disagreed to participate in its unification with the north . Being the case , in 1958 , the Communist North attacked the government of South Vietnam with the leadership of communist guerillas (Learn about Vietnam War , n .p

In to support Southern Vietnam , the United States of America deployed 2 ,000 military advisors that eventually increase by 1963 to 16 ,300 . In 1965 , President Johnson escalated the armed conflict by utilizing air strikes and increasing the ground forces by 536 ,000 in 1968 . The worsening condition of the war as well as the increasing casualties that reached nearly 60 ,000 American deaths had cause many to turned against this war (Learn about Vietnam War , n .p . The greatest protest were coming from the American citizens themselves , which is why the dilemma encountered during those times where the lack of consensus coming from the domestic realm . The U .S . won every battle they waged against North Vietnam but their biggest defeat was that the public no longer believed that what they are fighting for was worth the cost (The War at Home , n .p . The primary problem of most American presidents that led in the duration of the Vietnam War was how to appease and get the approval of the people while continuing the conflict in Vietnam . They know that if they would pursue the war then they...