COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Detailed explanation-1: -Four U.S. Presidents have been, in varying degrees, involved with the Vietnam War: (L to R) Dwight D. Eisenhower (’59 photo); John F.
Detailed explanation-2: -From the arrival of the first U.S. military advisors in the 1950s to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, U.S. involvement in Vietnam was central to the Cold War foreign policies of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford.
Detailed explanation-3: -The major initiative in the Lyndon Johnson presidency was the Vietnam War. By 1968, the United States had 548, 000 troops in Vietnam and had already lost 30, 000 Americans there. Johnson’s approval ratings had dropped from 70 percent in mid-1965 to below 40 percent by 1967, and with it, his mastery of Congress.