cost of vietnam war

• How much did the us spend on the Vietnam war?

  >$170 billion - $1 trillion today

  >pensions/benefits to veterwns doubled the cost
• Where did the funding for Vietnam from?

  'Great society' and 'war on poverty' schemes
• How many Americans were killed?

  58,000 - average age of 23
• How many Americans were injured?

  300,000
• What were the other impacts us soldiers faced?

  >30% used heroin from Laos and cambodia

  > psychologically damaged from drug dependency and ptsd
• How many Vietnamese died in the Vietnam War?

  1 million soldiers

  2 million civilians
• How many Vietnamese were injured?

  2 million soldiers

  5 million civilians
• How many Vietnamese were made refugees?

  11 million
• What was life like for the Vietnamese?

  Built homes near us bases to provide protection

  Turned to drug abuse and prostitution

  Lived in poverty
• How many babies were made through relationships between us soldiers and Vietnamese?

  100,000
• Operation Babylift

  An American led campaign to airlift 3000 Vietnamese orphans out of Vietnam by 1975 to be adopted by American families
• How much land was destroyed with agent orange?

  1 million hectares of forest
• How many bombs were dropped on Vietnam?

  More than 7.5 million tonnes

  Between 1964-1973 over a million tonnes