What were the consequenses of vietnam war

It decreased people's trust in authority figures.  The Vietnam War helped to turn Americans against their government.  They felt that the government had lied to them about how the war was going.  Others felt that the government was too quick to send Americans off to die for no good reason.  In both cases, the war helped to make Americans more suspicious of their government (and then Watergate happened and that didn't help).

It helped lead to the split we now have between traditionalists and progressives in the United States.  Because of the upheavals of the '60s, there came to be a split in the US between people who held relatively liberal ideas and those who were more conservative.  The war helped to deepen these differences as the conservatives saw the liberals as weak-kneed and unpatriotic and the liberals came to see the conservatives as blindly patriotic militarists and conformists.   This helped to set up some of the animosity that now surrounds the "culture wars" that are so important in our political and social debates today.

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