1. AMERICAN SOCIETY’S
FORMATION – EFFECTS OFTHE
VIETNAMWAR
THE TENETS AND BELIEFS BEHIND AMERICAN HEGEMONY AS WELL
AS POPULAR CULTURE
NUSRET ÇETIN – ONUR YALÇIN – MERT ÖZSOY
4. AMERICAN SUPREMACY / EXCEPTIONALISM
• The belief of being different than the other nations and having
all the positive traits .
• WASP – KKK ( Ku Klux Klan )
5. RESULT OF SUPREMACY ON……
• MASS MASACRE OF NATIVE AMERICANS
• Downgrading other nations (pejorative names : gook, gooky,
nigger )
• Bury my heart at wounded knee
8. The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy regarding
domination of the American continent in 1823. It stated
that further efforts by European nations to colonize land
or interfere with states in North or South America would
be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S.
İntervention.
9. ISOLATIONISM SERVES EXPANSIONISM
Strengthening the navy
Modernization of the army
Gathering of soldiers
World War I : 1919
World War II : 1945
The Communist Threat : 1950 - 1960
11. THE WEAPONS USED BY THE U.S. IN THE
VIETNAM WAR
• Napalm Bombs
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaQV6h6rB4
• Agent Orange
12. THE NATION’S REACTION AGAINST THE
BRUTALITY OF THE WAR
•Boycotts in schools by teachers and students
•Religious functionaries preached against the
war
13. THE NATION’S REACTION AGAINST THE
BRUTALITY OF THE WAR
•The apparition of a great number of
conscientious objectors
•Blacks objected to be a part of this bloody war
•Extreme ceremonies of public kissing and
making love
14. THE WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN TROOPS
FROM VIETNAM
• The conflicting opinions about the war in the public violently
divided the country.
• As the chaos at home further intensified, the government had to
withdraw the army from Vietnam.
• Nixon put forward the «Vietnamisation» concept that meant the
continuation of the war with American support.
• Nevertheless, the last American troops left the country in 1973.
15. THE RESULTS OF THE WAR ON THE
AMERICAN CULTURE
• More than 750 novels, 250 films, 100 short-story collections, and
1,400 personal narratives have been published about the war in
Vietnam.
• While some of these films and their authors supported the war, such
as the novelist John Steinbeck and the actor John Wayne, some
others were against it, such as the movies Apocalypse Now, Full
Metal Jacket, or Platoon.
16. THE RESULTS OF THE WAR ON THE
AMERICAN CULTURE
• In the 1980s, the U.S. was able to settle the score for the frustrations
and losses it had experienced in Vietnam thanks to the films such as
Rambo.
17. SOURCES CONSULTED
• Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (Harper&Row,
1980)
• Howard Zinn, Postwar America, 1945-1971 (Bobbs-Merrill, 1973)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Philip Caputo, A Rumor Of War
