American History II students are finishing the unit on US involvement in Vietnam.
EXTRA CREDIT:
1. What would you consider to be the most significant lasting legacy of US involvement in Vietnam and explain.
2. What should we as Americans learn from our involvement in Vietnam? Have we learned this lessons? Explain.
1. The most significant legacy of us involvement in Vietnam would have to be the military effects on foreign affairs. The Military after Vietnam is very hesitant or lurgy of any foreign projects. This may lead to issues or save us, but the fact that it still effects them is big.
ReplyDelete2. We should learn to let other countries find there own paths some times. There is a fine line between helping and forcing.
1. I believe the mist significant lasting legacy if U.S. involvement in Vietnam is how much it affected not only our goverent but our country as a whole. The government was changed by Johnson refusing to run again where if we hadn't been involved he would have served two full terms. After war congress has to agree in order for us to send troops anywhere for linger than ninety days. Which is different than before. Vietnam was the longest war we have ever been involved in. More bombs were dropped in Vietnam that WW1,WW11, and Korea combined.
ReplyDelete2. We should have learned that nothing really changed. We never really won the war. We defiantly did not learn this lesson because we still have many troops over in Iraq and east Asia.
-Courtney Lemer
1. I would consider the most significant lasting legacy of Vietnam to be our veterans. We have so many veterans with PTSD or other disabilities that remind us daily of the War in Vietnam. And the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has left a legacy that will continue on for many many years.
ReplyDelete2.We as Americans should learn that when people don't want to engage in and spend their money on a war maybe elected officials shouldn't declare war. Many people were very against the War in Vietnam and because of this our political leaders covered up a lot of of pertinent information about what was really going on. The media still doesn't share very many facts about our countries engagements which shows that we haven't learned our lesson.
1. I would consider that the most significant legacy in the Vietnam war was that most of the solders didn't want to fight or they didn't know really what they were fighting for. By the time we were done with the war we had never started.
ReplyDelete2. That we should try to not get into the wars we can't finish and they we don't need to be the world popo.
Laura Williams
1.I would consider the most significant legacy in the Vietnam war to be Veterans. Many of them have PTSD, they have to deal with every day for the rest of their lives. There is very little they can do to fix it either.
ReplyDelete2.We should let other countries deal with their own problems sometimes. We cant always solve everything for others, sometimes they have to fix their own messes.
Rainy White
1. The most significant legacy in the war would be how it not only affected the solders. Soldiers tried to avoid going to Vietnam - they signed up for the National Guard, and some even amputated themselves, like their hands so they did no have to go. The people who did go suffer form PTSD and some have disabilities.
ReplyDelete2. We should learn to not to always get into other people's wars, especially when soldiers are avoiding to go. So many people were against the war and people did things to avoid going. We should not force people to go and have our country be involved.
-Jocelyn Frasier
1. I would consider the most important legacy of the war being the media; after Vietnam there were stricter regulations on the media's access to anything that involved the war. This also consequently led to sneakier tactics where there were press leaks as well as information about our foreign affairs.
ReplyDelete2. I think one of the lessons we should've learned from the war in Vietnam was that you have to have the public's support of the war or a the consequences will be more than just military losses.
-CHEYENNE