Did The Power Of Television Force The United States To Leave Vietnam

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 Did The Power Of Television Force The United States To Leave Vietnam?

From sources D-L they mostly don’t provide any accurate information from what the question is asking. These sources can be quite biased at some stages and shows different general views from one point to another. I shall be analyzing sources from D-L.

Source D is a North Vietnamese poster from the time showing problems faced by the Americans fighting a guerrilla war. As within in the picture it shows American troops who are not sure on what they’re doing once in Vietnam. The American troops didn’t realise that they’re in fact being watched during their time featured in this poster. The Vietcong troops knew their jungle very well, as they used the guerrilla tactics which included the (
booby trap). The Vietcong, tactic of attrition was to kill as many Americans as possible that they could find. Also the American tactics were to search and destroy (‘Operation Rolling Thunder’) which didn’t work at all. So the Vietnamese citizens hated them more and become more Vietcong altogether. The intended audience for this poster were the Vietcong and the innocent citizens, as they have no uniform like the NVA. This North Vietnamese poster has its advantages and disadvantages.
As this is a poster of propaganda it can’t be aired or shown on television. As from the poster not being advertised on television, the American public won’t be able to see this poster, which can be seen as a limitation for this source.
This source can be seen as very biased due to it being a North Vietnamese poster which is advertising/showing the American citizens the troops in North Vietnamese as if they don’t have an idea on what exactly they are suppose to be doing and that the fact they don’t even know they are being watched. Therefore this source is irrelevant.

Source G is a primary aftermath source of the My Lai massacre of 1968 which shows the response in 1968 of an American soldier after having just been notified about the massacre of 347 unarmed civilians. This source is trying not to fault the blame upon to the soldiers, but it’s signifying that many soldiers had useful motives. I quote “many of them thought they were going to something courageous on behalf of their country”. This was something which they thought was the (American Ideal). The soldiers wanted to be a part of the good America who is there to step in at any time when freedom is threatened by communism a.k.a. (Truman Doctrine’). As this was due to most soldiers had never been away from home before they approved to enter into the service.
From this source it can be seen as being biased. This is because in the article, it states how an American soldier is talking and criticising the conduct in Vietnam from only just one point of view from a soldier. The soldier states in the article that it’s something like a Nazi thing.
“You Know, it was a Nazi thing. We didn’t go there to be Nazis”. From this quote, the soldier is saying that when he and former soldiers decided and approved they wanted to become a part in the service, they wanted to do their country proud, not to become a Nazi.
On the other hand, limitations are biased in this article pretty much. There is no real reference but as we know, the My Lai trial was shown on American Television and this plays an enormous part in this very war. Although, sadly, this can be some assistance of help to change the citizen’s attitude.

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Source K is a primary source of a result of an Australian public opinion poll which was produced in the years of 1969 and 1970. The table of results shows the public judgments as stating if they wanted their forces to continue in the war or be brought back home. This source would have not have any attitudes on American view as it was complete in Australia, hence the fact that the American citizens wouldn’t have notified this only upon Australia’s selection on what they would obtain.
The results of the Australia’s and American’s opinions would approximately be equivalent. It’s ...

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