THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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He was responsible for overthrowing the government of South Vietnam
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He was responsible for using the Attrition and Pacification strategy
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He was responsible for using the Vietnamization strategy and Peace with Honor strategy
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The U.S. had stationed advisory military personnel in South Vietnam since the 1950s, but Johnson presided over a major escalation of the U.S. role in the Vietnam War. After the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, he obtained congressional approval to use military force to repel future attacks by North Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-2: -For Johnson, the decision to continue the Vietnam commitment followed the path of his predecessors. He was committed to maintaining an independent South Vietnam and to achieving success in Southeast Asia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Johnson believed that if he permitted South Vietnam to fall through a conventional North Vietnamese invasion, the whole containment edifice so carefully constructed since World War II to stop the spread of communism (and the influence of the Soviet Union) would crumble.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.