"The USA got out of Vietnam because of the unpopularity of the war with the US electorate" To what extent do you agree with this interpretation? (1965-73)

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"The USA got out of Vietnam because of the unpopularity of the war with the US electorate" To what extent do you agree with this interpretation? (1965-73)

Some describe the Vietnam conflict as a promise "to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia..." (Martin Luther King), but instead Martin Luther King's other description of the war as a "...cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on the TV screen as they kill and die together for a nation that cannot even seat them together in the same schools..." can be seen as more relevant. The US public carried a strong voice throughout this conflict and were able to change decisions and inevitably cause the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam.

The unpopularity of the war can be split into a number of sections. Unpopularity came about through the media coverage given to the actions of US troops and the barbaric acts that were being carried out in Vietnam. Examples of these were the development of napalm and Agent Orange. Napalm was jellied petroleum which was used to burn anything which came into contact with it; it had a devastating effect and often destroyed whole parts of the