THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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the generational gap between hippies and their parents
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the gap between what North and South Vietnamese were saying
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the distrust arising from the differences in government reports versus media reports
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Vietnam War, the term “credibility gap” came to be used by political opponents in cases where an actual, perceived or implied discrepancy existed between a politician’s public pronouncements and the actual, perceived or implied reality.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lew Irwin and The Credibility Gap The Credibility Gap grew out of a company formed by Lew Irwin and Cliff Vaughs. KRLA 1110 hired news director Irwin to form The Credibility Gap in 1968 with his radio colleagues John Gilliland, Thom Beck, Richard Beebe, and folk singer Len Chandler.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did positive government reports about the progress in Vietnam suffer from a “credibility gap"? Nightly television reports allowed Americans to see for themselves that the war was not going as well as the Johnson administration said it was.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why did the Tet Offensive contribute to the credibility gap during the Vietnam War? Although North Vietnam was technically the loser in the TET Offensive, in its aftermath American citizens realized that North Vietnam would not be as easy to defeat as government and military leaders had claimed.