THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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many more Americans had died in Vietnam than had been reported.
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American soldiers had massacred Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
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American prisoners of war were being tortured in North Vietnamese prisons.
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the government had not been completely honest with the public about Vietnam.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Pentagon Papers revealed that the United States had expanded its war with the bombing of Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which had been reported by the American media.
Detailed explanation-2: -The documents, which came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, revealed that the government had enlarged the scope of military actions in Vietnam without public and congressional knowledge and continued operations even as it concluded American military victory was unlikely.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Pentagon Papers revealed that the Harry S. Truman administration gave military aid to France in its colonial war against the communist-led Viet Minh, thus directly involving the United States in Vietnam; that in 1954 Pres.
Detailed explanation-4: -On June 30, the Supreme Court ruled that the Times had the right to publish the material. The publication of the “Pentagon Papers, ” along with previous suspected disclosures of classified information to the press, led to the creation of a White House unit to plug information leaks to journalists.