The_Vietnam_War_Was_The_Most_Controversial_War_In_U.S._Histo

The Vietnam War Was The Most Controversial War In U.S. History. Discuss. The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. Discuss. The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. Also called the Indochina War, it has been said to have started in 1957 when communist rebels of North Vietnam launched an attack on The South. The country was divided because of the communistic views of the North. The North was trying to take over and make Vietnam a communist country. The war finally ended on April 30, 1973 with a defeated America going home, after the North Vietnamese had taken over the south. The U.S. first got involved after president Dwight Eisenhower said, "If we let the communists take over, the other Asian countries would fall like dominos." At that time he pledged to assist the South Vietnamese government with war. By 1954 there were 342 American military personal there. The mounting communist assault against the South then prompted President John F. Kennedy to increase the troop strength to 16,000 by the time he was assassinated in 1963. One of the biggest ways the U.S. acquired the troops, was by the draft. This was a method to get people to war. Anyone from the ages 18 to war, vietnam, south, people, over, north, vietnamese, troops, one, million, draft, biggest, after, set, said, out, country, communist, caused, because, american, year, tet, protest, president, offensive, left, illnesses, government, fire, during, congress, billion, antiwar, alone