American Youth and the Vietnam War

Greta 2022-04-23 07:01:52

The background of the whole film is in the 1960s, after the end of World War II, people witnessed the brutality of the war. The invasion of Vietnam during the Eisenhower period, from the initial desire to support South Vietnam to the subsequent wanton slaughter of South Vietnam, transporting a large number of American soldiers to Vietnam every year also had a serious impact on the American economy itself. After all, the United States did not gain much from the Vietnam War. benefit.

The American youth began to awaken and oppose the Vietnam War. After all, no one wanted to be the next murderer on the battlefield, and even left behind a lot of war sequelae. But it is clear that at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were fighting for hegemony, and the United States' attitude towards the Vietnam War hoped that Vietnam would join the capitalist camp. During the Kennedy administration, he hoped to assassinate the North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh many times. The mockery was that Kennedy was assassinated. The attitude of the U.S. government makes American youth feel disgusted, which is why the conflict in the film and the U.S. government’s desire and crime against the youth who demonstrate.

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