Monday, April 13, 2015
Ending involvement with Vietnam
Today in class we worked on the "Detente" worksheet, during this period in the United States Nixon had recently been elected for President. His reputation was very strong towards the Americans and as a communist no one viewed him as a weak President, giving the people of America hope that he would be strong enough to pull America from war in a way that they wouldn't get defeated. Instead of having a victory and a defeat, they would end war in a very peaceful way with Vietnam. While trying to end their involvement with Vietnam President Nixon gave a speech to the people who did not protest and did not cause trouble to the Gov. calling it the "Silent Majority" speech. With this speech Nixon hoped to gain support from the American people in order to end war faster.
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I used to think that during the period of Vietnam, the majority of the US was against the war. However, it was only a small amount of US citizens who were against the war, but because they were very active they seemed like the majority.
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ReplyDeleteI think that Nixon was a good president because he helped the United States out of many wars and brought some peace at least for a little while. But I also think Nixon took advantange of the people by telling them what they wanted to hear and then they would support him
ReplyDeleteI think the US took their role as the protector of democracy a little to far. This war does not seem like it was worth it. Thousands died and in the end we got nowhere. We should have left them to figure their country out for themselves and maybe gave them some supplies.
ReplyDeleteI think the US took their role as the protector of democracy a little to far. This war does not seem like it was worth it. Thousands died and in the end we got nowhere. We should have left them to figure their country out for themselves and maybe gave them some supplies.
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