USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Acting on the belief that Hanoi would eventually weaken when faced with stepped up bombing raids, Johnson and his advisers ordered the U.S. military to launch Operation Rolling Thunder, a bombing campaign against the North.

Detailed explanation-2: -when the U.S. could have withdrawn from Vietnam.”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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Initially, its purpose was to demoralize the North Vietnamese people and to undermine Ho Chi Minh’s authority and force him to negotiate with the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -The major initiative in the Lyndon Johnson presidency was the Vietnam War. By 1968, the United States had 548, 000 troops in Vietnam and had already lost 30, 000 Americans there.