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THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

THE VIETNAM WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ____ were leaked to the New York Times, which contained details about the U.S. decisions to expand the war, as well as information about American involvement in Vietnam for the past two decades. It also revealed the President Johnson had ____ to Congress about his involvement in Vietnam.
A
Geneva Accords-Told the truth
B
Pentagon Papers-Told the truth
C
Pentagon Papers-Lied
D
Fourteen Points-Lied
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In early 1971 Daniel Ellsberg, a RAND Corporation employee who had worked on the project, secretly made copies of the documents and passed them to reporters for the New York Times. On June 13, 1971, after several months of review, the Times began to publish these so-called “Pentagon Papers.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Released by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study, they were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.

Detailed explanation-3: -As the Vietnam War dragged on, military analyst Daniel Ellsberg-who had worked on the study-came to oppose the war, and decided that the information contained in the Pentagon Papers should be available to the American public. Ellsberg gave the information to the New York Times.

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