Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War With no clear sign of victory in Vietnam, American military casualties helped stimulate opposition to the war by Americans. In their book "Manufacturing Consent", Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman challenge that traditional view of how the media influenced the war and propose that the media instead censored the more brutal images of the fighting and the death of millions of innocent people. The U.S. became polarized over the war. Many supporters of U.S. involvement argued for what was known as the domino theory, a theory that believed if one country fell to communism, then the bordering countries would be sure
The Lost World of Communism Communist rule. "The Lost World of Communism" debuted on BBC Two on Saturday 14 March 2009 at 9:00pm. There is also a book which accompanies the series. The Lost World of Communism The Lost World of Communism is a three-part British documentary series which examines the legacy of communism twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall. Produced by Peter Molloy and Lucy Hetherington, the series takes a retrospective look at life behind the Iron Curtain between 1945 and 1989, focusing on three countries in the Eastern Bloc - East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania. Through film and television