Title: Vietnam War: Problems on the Home Front - Home
Headings: Events During the War
How did the Vietnam war effect things on the home front?
Events During the War
Kent State Shootings
Protests
Over Seas Experience
The Beginning of the Vietnam War
Economic Impact
Impact the War had on Today

Content: Soon there were hundreds of thousands of advocates for the anti-war movement across the nation. Over Seas Experience
While overseas in Vietnam American soldiers encountered many hardships, such as developing drug addictions, injuries, and disease. Going through these struggles and committing some of the intolerable acts they did played a partial role as a catalyst for protests on the home front. The Beginning of the Vietnam War
Economic Impact

In 1954 the Geneva Accords separated Vietnam into two states, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam consisted of communism as South Vietnam did not. The US was scared that communism would spread south and then to other countries by through the leader of Ho Chi Minh. President John F. Kennedy decided to send troops to South Vietnam to stop communism and build a nation. By 1962 there were 9,000 US troops stationed in Vietnam. Then, in 1963 when Kennedy was assassinated Lyndon B. Johnson took over the presidency. Johnson then began to send more and more military over seas causing the war to escalate.