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This statement suggests that television was an important reason why the United States lost the war in Vietnam. Is there sufficient evidence in sources D to K to support this information?
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Again, without the sources, this is difficult to understand, but you should get the gist of it.
"The war on colour television screens in American living rooms has made America more anti-war than anything else. The full brutality of combat will be there in close-up and colour, and the blood looks very red on the colour television screen"
Statement made by a BBC commentator in 1970
This statement suggests that television was an important reason why the United States lost the war in Vietnam. Is there sufficient evidence in sources D to K to support this information?
There are many reasons why the Americans lost the Vietnam War, and one of the things that had most influence on the decision to withdraw from Vietnam was the change in attitude of the American people. So what changed their views, and was television the most important factor in this change?
There are many ways in which the American people could have found out about the war; television, newspaper articles, and accounts from the soldiers that had been there all showed what was happening in Vietnam, and without this input, the people would not have been able to
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