Source based questions on the Vietnam war 1960

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The author of source M believed that television played an important part in changing peoples attitudes to the Vietnam war.  I agree with this viewpoint because the Vietnam War was known as the first television war even though wars like the second world war and the Korea war was shown on television their events were reported after the events occurred.  The events in the other wars were reported after they happened because of the technology at the time and because of government censorship.

        For the Vietnam war they had improved technology such as satellite communication that meant events appeared on people’s television screens almost as it happened.  Television pictures supported detail of events like those expressed in source H when a soldier tells in a letter about how sick he is of the war.  TV and newspapers published photographs like that in source J and also showed villagers escaping from napalm attacks made by U.S forces.  Those pictures were not published until the events were over because it would have made peoples opinions change about the war.

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        Television had a huge impact on the people in America because it shows in source F that 64% of people felt like backing up the boys in Vietnam because of television but 26% said they felt moved to oppose the war because of television.  This source might not be correct because we don’t know how they collected the information or what questions they asked to get it so a lot of people would question their accuracy.

        The Morley Safer film showed American troops going into a Vietnamese village and shooting with no one shooting back.  The only three marines wounded ...

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