THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
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The North & South Vietnamese could not agree on a political regime
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European nations did not agree with American involvement in Vietnam
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The discrepancies between what the military reported and what actually happened in Vietnam
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The American military was not credible in its ability to fight the South Vietnamese
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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: -credibility gap. noun. a disparity between claims or statements made and the evident facts of the situation or circumstances to which they relate.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Tet Offensive proved that the American public were right to be suspicious of the Johnson administration’s positive spin on the Vietnam War. Although the administration had been saying that U.S. would soon win the war, the massive North Vietnamese surprise attack showed they were far from being defeated.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.