Political and Legal Sphere in the United States

Summary and Reflection of Key Points Learned from the Class Lectures and Resources
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Summary and Reflection of Key Points Learned from the Class Lectures and Resources
The current literature and lecture content has played a critical role in understanding the political, historic, economic, legal, and social environment in the United States. Over the week, the class has addressed fundamental issues and points necessary to understand the political and legal sphere in the United States and how the two have changed over time. The political and economic relationship between the United States and the other parts of the world during the Vietnam War was the first lesson I learned from class lectures and reading. Notably, leadership in the United States has struggled to take the modern concept where traditionally only limited and privileged individuals were allowed to vote, exercise democracy, and help choose leaders who would represent the country in major decision activities. Consequently, leaders in the pre-democracy errors were led by a significant level of prejudice, force, and self-interest, making it challenging to guarantee good economic relations between the United States and other parts of the world. From the class, I understood that the United States lacked the ability to prosper in all the economic zones during the Vietnam War. Hence, the nation is promoted to trade and mutually associate with other countries to produce sufficient resources for imports and other exchange forms.
The United States faced significant economic loss by participating and being interested in various wars, such as the Vietnam War. For instance, during the Vietnam War, the United States supported southern Vietnam, which was against the interests of other communist countries and their allies (Hagopian, 2019). Consequently, the country experienced significant political and economic loss resulting from the loss of trade deals and other suction. For instance, the participation of the United States in the Vietnam War promoted the country to increase economic sanctions on Japan, which had relatively taken over the Vietnam leadership in then bid to weaken its military capabilities (Hagopian, 2019). As a result, the conflict escalated to the extent of sinking Japanese ships carrying imports like tea and other goods to the United States and other trade zones.
The class has also helped me learn some of the short and long-term implications perceived by the United States by agreeing to participate and taking sides in the Vietnam War. Firstly, the country's participation in the War created widespread fear as people feared reiteration. At the same time, taxes in the United States also grew significantly as the country's economic capability declined significantly. At the same time, the country was forced to increase the tax structure to collect more money from the people to neutralize the loss created by supplying military contingencies for the War and cover for the lost economic opportunities (Fallows, 1975). However, the drastic increase in Taxes in the United States during the Vietnam War did not offer a solution to the country's declining economy but led to other major internal cha...