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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a rise in teach-ins
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a reduction of protests
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a credibility gap
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more guerrilla warfare
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Detailed explanation-1: -Yet Johnson’s limits made winning the war very difficult. Instead of conquering territory, American troops had to fight a war of attrition-defeating enemy forces by wearing them down. This strategy led troops to conduct grisly body counts after battles to determine how many enemy soldiers had been killed.
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: -Why did so much of the American public and many in the Johnson administration support U.S. escalation in Vietnam? They believed that the spread of communism jeopardized democracy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Many Americans opposed the war on moral grounds, appalled by the devastation and violence of the war. Others claimed the conflict was a war against Vietnamese independence, or an intervention in a foreign civil war; others opposed it because they felt it lacked clear objectives and appeared to be unwinnable.