THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Americans began to perceive the Johnson Administration as honest
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The Johnson Administration lost the support of wealthy Americans
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Support for the war among college students nearly doubled.
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Many Americans began to question U.S. involvement in the war
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Detailed explanation-1: -U.S. Army officers covered up the carnage for a year before it was reported in the American press, sparking a firestorm of international outrage. The brutality of the My Lai massacre and the official cover-up fueled anti-war sentiment and further divided the United States over the Vietnam War.
Detailed explanation-2: -It occurred when Charlie Company was ordered to enter the village for a search and destroy mission. Still stinging from human losses in their unit during the Tet Offensive, Charlie Company vented their rage on the villagers at My Lai.
Detailed explanation-3: -What effect did the massacre have on America? People began to turn against the war because they had previously believed that their country was the good country which was helping but this incident revealed that perhaps their men were not the good people in this war.