The Vietnam War was a major conflict in the cold war. Vietnam was divided into two. The north was communist controlled. The government in the south, although ran by a dictatorship than a democracy, was supported by the United States. In 1960, the United States started the war against the north Vietnam. Men as young as eighteen were being drafted for mandatory military service for the Naval and the army. In 1965, the United States increased the number of the United States troops and authorized the bombing of North Vietnam which started a large controversy with the people who did not believe in their countries war and were being drafted. That decision caused the age of the United States draft dodgers. …
