How Did The Vietnam War Changed American Life

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The vietnam war changed American lives forever. It was one of the longest war fought in American history, lasting from 1955 to 1973. Everything that happened in that war was seen by everyone around the world. The vietnam war started in 1955, resulting in about 60,000 dead Americans and about two million viatnamese lives. The whole conflict started because the North vietnamese government and Vietnamese congress were fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule and the south wasnt so happy about it. Although the Vietnam was caused by the United States trying to stop the spread of communism, the war had negative consequences on Americans and Vietnamese people. Thousands of innocent lives were lost and it had social, econmic and political