Explain why the Vietnam War truly divided the American public?

Question:1.Also what were two events that happened before the war?

2.What are two arguments that i could talk about for both for and against fighting the war?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 1.Also what were two events that happened before the war?

2.What are two arguments that i could talk about for both for and against fighting the war?

BECAUSE JUST LIKE TODAY'S WAR THE VIETNAM WAR HAD PEOPLE THAT WERE AGAINST IT AND SOME THAT WERE FOR IT. SO PEOPLE STARTED TO FIGHT AND THE US WAS DIVIDED. AND THE SOLDIERS WHO AT THE TIME WERE BEING DRAFTED WERE AGAINST IT BECAUSE THEY WERE MERELY 18 AND SO THE LAW BECAME THAT IF YOU COULD GOT TO WAR YOU COULD ALSO VOTE.SO JUST LIKE TODAY AMERICA WAS DIVIDED. WAR AINT THAT PRETTY.

because we lost that's the true answer they started blaming each other for too

Cuban missile crisis, Korean war
people had a problem with the social injustices of rich and educated kids (whites) not fighting in the war, what business is it of yours if china takes over .
while social injustices did happen you did have rich kids fighting along with poor! and communism needed to be stopped

Vietnam was the first war to be screened in people's homes, people could see for themselves, and judge for themselves with a more educated eye, and so public support diminished. It was no longer something which was happening far away, but was being beamed into the living rooms of Americans every day.
"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam." Marshall McLuhan, 1975