Why did Lyndon Johnson escalate American involvement in Vietnam?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Students should recognize that the South Vietnamese government was not going to be able to hold on without considerable American support. The text makes clear how little domestic support the regime had. Students should also point to the strategy of bombing the North as requiring a significant American ground presence. Strong students will put Johnson's decision to escalate in the context of the Mann Doctrine, which rejected links between domestic reform and American military support.
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A) large cities in North America B) settled agriculture dating back 12,000 years C) human activity dating back 10,000 years D) a major battle between two groups of Native Americans
The United States cut off all trade with Japan in 1941 in retaliation for:
A) Japanese forces' occupying Indochina. B) Japan's alliance with Hitler. C) Japanese forces' capturing Shanghai. D) the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. E) Japan's agreement to the Tripartite Pact.
The primary result of the Persian Wars for victorious Athens was
A) the desire to conquer Persia. B) the dawn of a new age of Athenian Imperialism, where Athenian naval power and wealth were used to dominate other city-states. C) the unification of Greece under Athenian rule. D) better relations with Sparta. E) the elimination of Persia as a world power.
What does the term Anthropocene define?
What will be an ideal response?