HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Apathy towards gov’t issues
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Greater support for the President
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Growing support for the war
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Credibility Gap
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did positive government reports about the progress in Vietnam suffer from a “credibility gap"? Nightly television reports allowed Americans to see for themselves that the war was not going as well as the Johnson administration said it was.
Detailed explanation-2: -Example Sentences There is a credibility gap between what the mayor says and what the people see happening in the city. The fact that the new estimates are so wildly different from the initial numbers has created a credibility gap.
Detailed explanation-3: -noun. a lack of popular confidence in the truth of the claims or public statements made by the federal government, large corporations, politicians, etc.: a credibility gap between the public and the power company.
Detailed explanation-4: -People opposed the war for different reasons. Some saw the conflict as a civil war in which the United States should not interfere. Others saw South Vietnam as a corrupt dictatorship and believed defending it was immoral. Thousands of demonstrators held protests against the war.