THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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such an attack would result in heavy American casualties
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it passes through countries that were not involved in the war
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he feared such an attack would bring the Soviet Union into the war
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its route continually changed, making it hard to locate and destroy
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Detailed explanation-1: -He creates a program to move Vietnamese peasants to special fortified villages called strategic hamlets to protect them and prevent them from aiding the Vietcong. President Johnson refused to allow a full-scale attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail because it passed through countries not involved in the war.
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: -Privately, Johnson agonized over the consequences of the U.S. escalation in Vietnam and raged at the incompetence of the succession of military juntas that tried to govern that country and carry on a war against Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese regulars. Publicly, he was determined not to lose the war.