By: Austin Matteson
2014
2014
The Vietnam Syndrome and United States Foreign Policy
The Vietnam involvement is a major turning point for all of the United States. Specifically in the areas of Foreign Policy and Politics. The war successfully divided the nation and as prepared by Dr. George C. Herring, " The war destroyed the consensus that had existed since the 1940s, leaving Americans confused and deeply divided on the goals to be perused and the methods used"(7). The war split the nation like a log into now the Foreign policy causing the national drive for Us involvement seen with the Second World War. Hence causing the fraction and aiding to the realligninment of the Republican Party under the Reagan Administration. This site will evaluate the:
Causes of the Vietnam Syndrome
Intermediate Effects: following the Carter and Reagan Administrations
Modern Affects: Following the "end" of the Vietnam Syndrome to the modern Era.
Causes of the Vietnam Syndrome
Intermediate Effects: following the Carter and Reagan Administrations
Modern Affects: Following the "end" of the Vietnam Syndrome to the modern Era.
What exactly is the Vietnam Syndrome
s proposed by the History books the United States was forced to withdraw from the Vietnam Conflict due to a multifarious amount of sources. The most lasting derived effect of the war being the Vietnam Syndrome. This is the theory, "that America's failure in Vietnam and the backlash from it have been primarily responsible for the malaise that has allegedly reduced the United States to a state of impotence in a menacing world"(Herring, 1). Therefore as proposed by the theory the United States was exiled to a state of political unrest between different factions over the Foreign Policy and that the nation is weary on its involvement in external affairs.