USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Johnson was committed to limited defensive war as he did not want an outright war with Vietnam. Johnson felt it might draw the Soviet Union or communist china into the war. Johnson also wanted to spend money on his great society at home programs and he thought this would be politically damaging in him if he didn’t.

Detailed explanation-2: -On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Sino-Vietnamese War (also known by other names) was a border war fought between China and Vietnam in early 1979. China launched an offensive in response to Vietnam’s actions against the Khmer Rouge in 1978, which ended the rule of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge.

Detailed explanation-4: -when the U.S. could have withdrawn from Vietnam.” Instead, Johnson escalated because he did not have a better alternative. By February 1965 the situation had morphed into perilous anarchy. Between the Diem coup and Johnson’s escalation Saigon fell to seven different governmental factions.