How it affect the United States

It affected the production of goods, it affect the American economy factories were producing things for the military instead of consumer goods and that affect the American economy greatly. Shopping rates decreased and there weren't no goods for anyone to buy. Everything produced by factories were supplies, weapons, and equipment. Factories weren't making resources for their country anymore, but another country war. The amount of money that the government was spending on the military , most funds were going overseas and no money was being returned to the United States, This created an imbalance in the balance of payments.

All four strategies under the five administration collapsed. In addition 58,220 soldiers were killed , 305,000 injured (of which 153,303 were disabled). Beside the physical injuries, many of them suffered from a mental disorder, commonly known as the ''Vietnam syndrome''. About 10% of the troops coming back home become addicted to heroin during the days in Vietnam. Many years after the war, tens thousands of U.S. troops and advisers had caught cancer or birth defect due to the exposure to agent orange. The bitterness of the veterans contributed to the hippie trend, a movement of rebellion, denying the western industrial society, coming back to nature, anti war, sexual freedom and the value of equality, peace and love in American youth for 20 years.