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Vietnam War - Coggle Diagram
Vietnam War
Economic Impact
Cost of the war
$168 billion, or $1 trillion in today's dollars
The Vietnam War severely damaged the U.S. economy. Unwilling to raise taxes to pay for the war, President Johnson unleashed a cycle of inflation.
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Shown a negative to very slow growth in total national output as well as in agricultural and industrial production.
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Social Impact
After the war
Vietnam War veterans are eligible for benefits that are open to all U.S. military veterans, including but not limited to disability compensation for service-connected disabilities, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and amputations; pension; health care; loans; and insurance.
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500,000 of the 3 million troops who served in Vietnam suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Rates of divorce, suicide, alcoholism and drug addiction were markedly higher among veterans.
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Population
The population of Saigon tripled during the Vietnam War to reach three million in 1970. Most of these new people were refugees whose homes in the countryside had been destroyed.
Political Impact
US politics
In America, the unpopularity of the war led to the end of the military draft in 1973, and since then, the U.S. has yet to conscript troops from the general population again. The war also drastically decreased Americans' trust in political leaders.
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The causes of the Vietnam War revolve around the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia.
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Global Impact
It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths. It was the first war to come into American living rooms nightly, and the only conflict that ended in defeat for American arms. The war caused turmoil on the home front, as anti-war protests became a feature of American life.
China, in particular, also played an important role in the Vietnam wars during 1950~1975. China helped North Vietnam unite the nation by fighting South Vietnam and the United States in the Vietnam War.
