HeyJaredA Short Walk through Our Long History
I think that if you want to understand the world we live in today, it helps to understand the important events of history. In this series, we are going to look at major events, people, documents, places, books, and ideas that have shaped history, and thus shaped our modern world.
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136 - The Vietnam War - Part 2 (opens the original)
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As we mentioned last episode, public opinion was turning strongly against the Vietnam war by the late 1960’s. President Johnson’s administration was coming under more and more criticism for how it had handled the war, and for the first time in US history, people are going to turn against the soldiers themselves. For most of US history, soldiers returning from war were treated as heroes. Soldiers returning from Vietnam were often treated like criminals. This was a new, horrible thing for the sold
135 - The Vietnam War - Part 1 (opens the original)
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Well, last episode was kind of depressing, talking about JFK being assassinated and the end of American innocence. And this episode, well, I guess it’s in the same theme, kinda. We’re talking about the Vietnam war, which is not the best period of American history. Divisive, unpleasant, and another turning point in the way America was seen by the world, and how it sees itself. This was originally going to be just one episode, but it was getting pretty long, so I’ve split it into two. I guess that
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