How did U. S. foreign policy in Vietnam during the Cold War conflict with traditional
American political ideals?

The Vietnam War had a profound effect on America. The war also drastically decreased Americans' trust in political leaders. In foreign policy, the U.S. suffered from the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: a fear of getting involved in foreign ground wars that might become long, bloody stalemates with no foreseeable end.

nuclear fission produces the atomic bomb, a weapon of mass destruction that uses power released by the splitting of atomic nuclei the fighting in iwo jima and okinawa affected the allies' pacific strategy because truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on mainland japan.