Cultural Effects, Causes And Effects Of The Vietnam War

Lasting Impressions It took Martin Luther King Jr. five minutes to give his “I Have a Dream” speech. This speech had one of the most powerful and long lasting effects on the United States culture. The ideas and thoughts of his speech are still studied in classrooms all around America. A speech that lasted only five minutes had an effect that lasted a lifetime. One event can change a generation of people for the rest of their lives. The Vietnam War is a perfect example of this idea. The war lasted roughly twenty years and had many short term and long term cultural effects that would change the future generations in many ways. Throughout this paper the causes and effects of the Vietnam War on the culture of the United States will be looked

America not only aided them with food and weapons but also soldiers. The soldiers drafted in made up one third of the initial army that was fighting for America. In October of 1965 the draft was considered a contributory cause the cultural effect that arose. The cultural effect was antiwar protest and movements started to develop all over the country. These movements did not start right away but they gained much popularity and followings as the war proceeded. The people behind the protest were in doubt and anger against the US government because they felt like it wasn 't our war to be fighting in. Movements started as small campus movements and eventually spread to universities all around the country. The US people realized this war was not for the good of the country. Protest eventually moved to cities and gained much popularity within each state. These antiwar movements were such a bold effect on the people of America because they created a group of people that actually didn 't agree with the government. They were not a threat to the government in a dangerous way that had just decided to protest their actions and decisions. These people were passionate about a topic and it showed in the points they made and also the way the protested. The antiwar protesting had an effect on the people of America that we

America had to send supplies, weapons, and soldiers over to aid the South Vietnamese. None of these things come cheap and America had to pay for it some way. The total spending of the war would add up to be 173 billion dollars total. Counting the money it cost to aid the Vietnamese it added up to be over 300 billion. There were also many disadvantages on the economy which were not taken into hand. The US had to stop all production for consumer goods in factories so that they could make military surplus cause a direct hurt on the economy. The high cost that America was putting out had huge effects on the American economy and almost caused total economic failure in the 70’s. This economic downfall switched from the standpoint of the effect to a new