USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Americans who strongly opposed the war and believed that the United States should withdraw from it were known as (doves). Americans who strongly felt that the Johnson administration wasn’t doing enough to escalate and win the war were know as (lions).

Detailed explanation-2: -In early August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. In response to these reported incidents, President Lyndon B. Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina.

Detailed explanation-3: -Yet Johnson’s limits made winning the war very difficult. Instead of conquering territory, American troops had to fight a war of attrition-defeating enemy forces by wearing them down. This strategy led troops to conduct grisly body counts after battles to determine how many enemy soldiers had been killed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Terms in this set (12) Why did Johnson escalate the war in Vietnam? Johnson arguably had little choice but to continue the war because of the nation’s Cold War convictions, the Kennedy legacy and the failings of the Saigon Regime.

Detailed explanation-5: -Increasingly, Black activists charged that the war itself was racism, and many African Americans developed a sense of racial solidarity with the Vietnamese.