What initial policy choices did President Johnson make with respect to Vietnam? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Johnson believed that American credibility was at stake in Vietnam.
2. Faced with the choice of escalating U.S. involvement to prevent an NLF victory or withdrawing entirely from the country, Johnson escalated.
3. He believed he had to preserve a noncommunist South Vietnam or else face a debilitating backlash from Republicans.
4. Johnson portrayed the Gulf of Tonkin incident as one of unprovoked Communist aggression, and Congress expressed almost unanimous support through its Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
5. With this expression of Congressional support, Johnson ordered American planes to begin bombing North Vietnam, and the first American combat troops into South Vietnam in March 1965.
6. In July, the administration added 100,000 more soldiers, with more to follow as necessary.
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A) John J. Pershing. B) Arthur MacArthur. C) Newton D. Baker. D) George C. Marshall.
The major economic problem facing President Nixon when he took office in 1969 was
A) large-scale employment. B) an increasing trade deficit. C) runaway inflation. D) a deepening recession.
Which of the following individuals seemed to most personify the late-nineteenth-century idea of American manifest destiny?
A) Mark Hanna B) Mark Twain C) William Jennings Bryan D) Theodore Roosevelt
In the spring and summer of 1789, French peasants did all of the following EXCEPT
a. hope that the Estates General and the National Assembly would address their grievances in the cahiers de doléances. b. manifest their trust in the king and the Church. c. fear that the growing number of beggars would seize their crops. d. refuse to pay royal taxes, tithes and manorial dues. e. destroy the records and sometimes the manors of their lords.