The French was involved in the war by invading Vietnam and making it a colony. The outcome of the U.S. being involved in the war is that there was a loss in money, time, men or soldier, and the trust between the U.S. and Vietnam was not solid because they feared there was a possibility of a communist takeover of Vietnam. In 1965, the United States had about 20,000 men enlisted per month and in 1968, about 40,000 men per month enlisted. As time increased so did the amount of men enlisting. More than 48,000 American soldiers were killed or injured in the war. In the 1960s, troop levels and causalities increased and the war became really unpopular at home, making big protests, affecting popular culture and losing trust from the public and its leaders. After American troops withdrew in 1973, in 1975, the South Vietnamese capital Saigon fell in to the North Vietnamese forces. The Vietnam War is explained in a more broad and different way in the book The Things They Carried. The very brutality of was causes indelible psychological and emotional changes in most of its
The French was involved in the war by invading Vietnam and making it a colony. The outcome of the U.S. being involved in the war is that there was a loss in money, time, men or soldier, and the trust between the U.S. and Vietnam was not solid because they feared there was a possibility of a communist takeover of Vietnam. In 1965, the United States had about 20,000 men enlisted per month and in 1968, about 40,000 men per month enlisted. As time increased so did the amount of men enlisting. More than 48,000 American soldiers were killed or injured in the war. In the 1960s, troop levels and causalities increased and the war became really unpopular at home, making big protests, affecting popular culture and losing trust from the public and its leaders. After American troops withdrew in 1973, in 1975, the South Vietnamese capital Saigon fell in to the North Vietnamese forces. The Vietnam War is explained in a more broad and different way in the book The Things They Carried. The very brutality of was causes indelible psychological and emotional changes in most of its