THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Congress granted the funds but the president didn’t use them.
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Congress declared war on North Vietnam.
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Congress sent a delegation to South Vietnam.
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Congress refused to approve the funds. D.Congress refused to approve the funds.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following the end of the war, Ford expanded the embargo of North Vietnam to cover all of Vietnam, blocked Vietnam’s accession to the United Nations, and refused to establish full diplomatic relations.
Detailed explanation-2: -We must act together and act decisively. I am therefore asking the Congress to appropriate without delay $722 million for emergency military assistance and an initial sum of $250 million for economic and humanitarian aid for South Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-3: -The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government.
Detailed explanation-4: -Congress supported the resolution with the assumption that the president would return and seek their support before engaging in additional escalations of the war. The Gulf of Tonkin incident and the subsequent Gulf of Tonkin resolution provided the justification for further U.S. escalation of the conflict in Vietnam.