WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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United States Escalates Military Involvement in Vietnam
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United States Forces Attack Panama
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Allied Forces Drive Nazis From Beaches of Normandy
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Hiroshima Devastated by Atomic Bomb
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Detailed explanation-1: -The doctrine of containment argued that all-out war should be avoided, but the US should pledge itself to stopping any new communist governments, or preventing any existing communist governments from expanding.
Detailed explanation-2: -While military action delivered repeated blows against the Soviet’s worldwide spread of communism, economic policies dictated by the US containment policy tied up, starved, and eventually collapsed the USSR and their international communist influence.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Overview. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman pledged that the United States would help any nation resist communism in order to prevent its spread. His policy of containment is known as the Truman Doctrine.