Vietnam War Dbq Essay

The Vietnam War started when French invaded Vietnamese territory and took it as their colony in 1887. Later in 1954, Vietnam was officially split into North(communist) and South(capitalist) Vietnam. The Viet Minh was the communist group who wanted to declare independence from France. The U.S did not want communism to be spread and that was the reason why they joined the war and supported the South. For the United States, a communist Vietnam meant the spread of the Soviet Union influence abroad the Asia’s territory (domino theory). However, later on most Americans changed their minds and the war became unfavorable at home. Then, President Gerald Ford officially ended the Vietnam War in 1975. The Vietnam War expanded divisions between the American

According to document E, American public were disappointed with their government because they were responding with National guard to protesters. Protests in the Kent State University lead to death of four youth which more heightened tension between Americans. These students just wanted to show their point of view about the Vietnam War but it lead to violence and tragedy as long as the government wanted to silence people. Apparently, John Filo felt agony while he was taking that photo since he was a journalism student at Kent State University. New generation of Americans started realizing that the Vietnam War was a mistake. The photo by political cartoonist Bill Sanders also supports my idea of saying how people were dissatisfied with their government. The main message of that document was that there are lots of people were dying in Vietnam, yet we don’t know the reason why. The same kind of document H, further illustrated the percentage of Americans who trusted the government over the time. That document was a graph from the National Elections Studies at the University of Michigan. People were frustrated and angry on their authority. It was important to American society because they were the ones who were going to war without any possible reasons why. On the eyes of American people, government leaders were no longer credible. Furthermore, Americans did not agree with the war which forced poor and minority