What is the Vietnam syndrome?

a) a post - traumatic stress disorder experience by many soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War

b) an illness caused by exposure to napalm

c) a distrust of Vietnamese people that many Americans experienced following the war

d) a general reluctance on the part of Americans to engage in another lengthy full-scale war

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Kelvin Fowler

4 February, 14:59

What is the Vietnam syndrome?

a) a post - traumatic stress disorder experience by many soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War

b) an illness caused by exposure to napalm

c) a distrust of Vietnamese people that many Americans experienced following the war

d) a general reluctance on the part of Americans to engage in another lengthy full-scale war

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Robert Conrad · Answer 1

The vietname syndrome is a general reluctance on the part of Americans to engage in another lengthy full-scale war. So the answer wou be letter D. This is when the Americans were engaged and involved in another war in which destructed their enemies and their soldiers.

Orozco · Answer 2

Vietnam syndrome is a political term that was coined by Henry Kissinger and was then popularized by Ronald Raegan. It refers to the reluctance of the Americans to engage in war overseas due to what happened in the Vietnam war.

The answer would then be D.