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Lyndon Johnson Vietnam Case Study

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Lyndon Johnson, Telephone Conversation with Senator Richard Russell, 1964
US State Department, Aggression from the North, 1965

• How did the history of the Cold War influence US government decisions in Vietnam?

o The history of the Cold War influences US government decisions in Vietnam by wanting to stop communist expansionism. According to Johnson, US were supporting South Vietnam against internal and external communist threats. A communist government has set out deliberately to conquer a sovereign people in a neighboring state (US State department 114). The United States government used the domino theory to support South Vietnam against the communist government of North Vietnam (Johnson 108). A domino that will kick off a whole list …show more content…

ships in the Gulf of Tonkin (US Congress1). The Congress conformed and passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in August 1964. Giving President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited powers to oppose communist aggression in Southeast Asia and to prevent further aggression (US Congress 2). Therefore, he president used the resolutions as authority to wage war in Vietnam (US Congress2) and US forces in Vietnam to defend the freedom of South Vietnam and by extension democracy around the world, against communist aggression (US Congress 3). While reading the article, before the “attacks” from the North Vietnamese and the Gulf of Tonkin, the president and congress did not had the reason to get involved in Vietnam War.
The Gulf of Tonkin resolution provided the justification for further U.S. escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin did not provided the justification to be part of the war. Not only that it was against the president’s campaign that he promised to Americans. No single man should have the unlimited powers to make decision that would affect everyone in America.

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This song shows the pride and honor of being chosen to wear the Green Beret. To be part of the war/our country’s decision. The song explains what the Green Berets do, how difficult it is to become it. At the end of the song, the dead wants his son to grow up to be a Green Beret like him. This song shows how America wants all the males to join the Green Beret and pass it to the next generation. They described these soldiers as the brave men, America’s best and courageous man. This song is inspiring people in a time of protest and doubt during the

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