why was it called the american war in vietnam

They call it the American War.Īt the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the exhibition “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War,” organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, shows artistic responses to the conflict-mostly from artists in the United States.

More than a painful memory, it’s an event that radically altered the personal and cultural history of millions. Their home was the battlefield, and when the war was over, in 1975, it wasn’t really over. In less than two decades, nearly 10 percent of the population in Vietnam alone was killed or wounded, and 1.5 million people fled. It was longer, for one thing, having begun in Vietnam in 1954, and it was deadlier. More than 58,000 Americans died in the conflict.īut for Southeast Asians, in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, the war was always different. The Vietnam War defined a generation of Americans in the 1960s and ’70s, from campus protests to disillusionment to, of course, death.

The American War: “Artists Reflect” recounts the Vietnam War from the Southeast Asian perspective October 17, 2019

Why was it called the american war in vietnam