Designing for the Life Span Segment 2
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Transition and Change in America's Way of Life and Work.
Viet Nam War 1966 - 1972.
America assumes the role of the French in Viet Nam escalating a war from military advice to full military involvement while the nation watches day by day on television.
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America had assumed a new position of world leadership that had its positive side and also its negative side. Only four years after the end of the war, the United States became the lead country in a war on the Korean peninsula. The war was fought to stalemate, but positioned the country politically to respond to conflagrations of this kind throughout the world. By the end of the 60s, America had arrived at another turning point in its history with its' ever deepening involvement in Southeast Asia and the Viet Nam War. Eventually 1.5 million Americans would serve in this war, but its most profound effect happened at home among a youth culture that mounted greater and greater opposition to the war eventually forcing its end with what most people conclude today was America's first loss of a war... and a profound change in the American psyche.
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