Financial impact
- US society was also affected by the lack of resources to adress the problems they had domestically
- for example, Johnsons Great Society agenda, which aimed to reduce inequality and racial divisions, lost money that was spent on the war instead
Pressure on US government of anti-war movement
- the reputation of the USA was diminished
- the US government was concerned that involvement abroad should not lead to similar problems to those encountered in Vietnam
- by the end of 1975, the whole of Vietnam was under a communist government, so the was seemed to have been pointless
- in the 1950s, the American public had respect for its government but 20 years later the general feeling was that people should be more questioning of the power of, and decosopms made by the government
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