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Opposition to the Vietnam War caused President Lyndon Johnson to halt aerial bombing of the North Vietnamese and engage in peace talks instead of escalating the war.
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How did presidents eisenhower Kennedy and Johnson begin or change the role played the US in the Vietnam war?
In May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. When the Vietnamese Nationalist (and Communist led) Vietminh army defeated French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the French were compelled to accede to the creation of a Communist Vietnam north of the 17th parallel while leaving a non Communist entity south of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangement. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower undertook instead to build a nation from the spurious political entity that was South Vietnam. He helped fabricate a government there, took control from the French, dispatched military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army, and unleashed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct psychological warfare against the North. President John F. Kennedy reached another turning point in early 1961, when he secretly sent 400 Special Operations Forces (Green Beret) soldiers to teach the South Vietnamese how to fight what was called a 'counterinsurgency' against the Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam. When Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, there were more than 16,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam, and more than 100 Americans had been killed. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, committed the United States most fully to the war. In August 1964, he secured from Congress a functional (not actual) declaration of war; the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Then, in February and March 1965, Johnson authorized the sustained bombing by US aircraft of targets north of the 17th parallel. On 8 March he dispatched 3,500 Marines to South Vietnam. Legal declaration or no, the United States was now at war. Eisenhower acknowledged that had elections been held as scheduled in Vietnam in 1956, "Ho Chi Minh would have won 80% of the vote." No US president wanted to lose a country to communism. Democrats in particular, like Kennedy and Johnson, feared a right wing backlash should they give up the fight. They remembered vividly the accusatory tone of the Republicans' 1950 question, "Who lost China?" The youthful John Kennedy on the other hand, felt he had to prove his resolve to the American people and his Communist adversaries, especially in the aftermath of several foreign policy blunders early in his administration. Lyndon Johnson saw the Vietnam War as a test of his mettle, as a Southerner and as a man. He exhorted his soldiers to "nail the coonskin to the wall" in Vietnam, likening victory to a successful hunting expedition. When Johnson began bombing North Vietnam and sent the Marines to South Vietnam in early 1965, he had every intention of fighting a limited war. He and his advisers worried that too lavish a use of US firepower might prompt the Chinese to enter the conflict. It was not expected that the North Vietnamese and the NLF would hold out long against the American military. And yet US policymakers never managed to fit military strategy to US goals in Vietnam. Massive bombing had little effect against a decentralized economy like North Vietnam's. Kennedy had favored counterinsurgency warfare in the South Vietnamese countryside and Johnson endorsed this strategy but the political side, the effort to win the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese peasantry was at best underdeveloped and probably doomed. Presidents proved reluctant to mobilize American society to the extent the generals thought necessary to defeat the enemy. As the United States went to war in 1965, a few voices were raised in dissent. Within the Johnson administration, Undersecretary of State George Ball warned that the South Vietnamese government was a functional nonentity and simply could not be sustained by the United States, even with a major effort. Antiwar protest groups formed on many of the nation's campuses. In June, the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society decided to make the war its principal target. But major dissent would not begin until 1966 or later. By and large in 1965, Americans supported the administration's claim that it was fighting to stop communism in Southeast Asia or they simply shrugged and went about their daily lives, unaware that this gradually escalating war would tear American society apart. It was 1967 and the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that the war really was stepped up and a massive troop build up became enormous. Gulf of Tonkin was a resolution over a minor sea incident that Johnson had deliberately overblown to get authorization to allow for the massive build up.
How the US change because of the Vietnam war?
Besides an increased distrust of the US Government's ability to tell the truth to its citizens, it did prompt the creation of an all volunteer US Armed Services which may or may not have been a perfect answer to the nations defense needs.
What laws did the united state enact to prompt native Americans to assimilate?
battle of rego and attas
Who did Henry VIII want to marry badly to prompt his break with the Roman Catholic Church?
I think it was Anne Boelyn
What did the potsdam declaration warn Japan of?
The Potsdam Declaration warned Japan that if it did not surrender it would face "prompt and utter destruction".
What did Johnson do for Vietnam?
He agonized over it, micro managed it and despised it. President Johnson wanted to end the war and that he "trying to win it just as fast as I can in every way that I know how" and later stated that he needed "all the help I can get." In the end he relised that he couldn't win the war and that is why he refused to run for a secont term.
An emergency may prompt the president to call a what of congress?
A special session.
What is the adjective for prompt?
Prompt is an adjective and also a verb adjective -- Jack is always prompt. verb -- Can you prompt John to collect the fees?
What is the past tense of prompt?
The past of "prompt" is "prompted".
Prompt in a sentence?
The response to the accident was prompt.
Is prompt a synonym for blunder?
No. Blunder is a mistake. Prompt is a cue to a specific action, or to be prompt is to be on time.
What is an elevation prompt?
An elevation prompt is an prompt in Windows that displays requesting a user's log in credentials. Elevation prompt settings can be controlled from the User Account Control.
What is the administrator's prompt in the command line on unix?
The usual indication of running as the administrator in Unix is show a prompt that contains the '#' character as either the prompt or part of the prompt.
How do you get to a C prompt?
To get to a C:/ prompt, run CMD.EXE.
How did presidents eisenhower Kennedy and Johnson begin or change the role played the US in the Vietnam war?
In May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. When the Vietnamese Nationalist (and Communist led) Vietminh army defeated French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the French were compelled to accede to the creation of a Communist Vietnam north of the 17th parallel while leaving a non Communist entity south of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangement. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower undertook instead to build a nation from the spurious political entity that was South Vietnam. He helped fabricate a government there, took control from the French, dispatched military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army, and unleashed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct psychological warfare against the North. President John F. Kennedy reached another turning point in early 1961, when he secretly sent 400 Special Operations Forces (Green Beret) soldiers to teach the South Vietnamese how to fight what was called a 'counterinsurgency' against the Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam. When Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, there were more than 16,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam, and more than 100 Americans had been killed. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, committed the United States most fully to the war. In August 1964, he secured from Congress a functional (not actual) declaration of war; the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Then, in February and March 1965, Johnson authorized the sustained bombing by US aircraft of targets north of the 17th parallel. On 8 March he dispatched 3,500 Marines to South Vietnam. Legal declaration or no, the United States was now at war. Eisenhower acknowledged that had elections been held as scheduled in Vietnam in 1956, "Ho Chi Minh would have won 80% of the vote." No US president wanted to lose a country to communism. Democrats in particular, like Kennedy and Johnson, feared a right wing backlash should they give up the fight. They remembered vividly the accusatory tone of the Republicans' 1950 question, "Who lost China?" The youthful John Kennedy on the other hand, felt he had to prove his resolve to the American people and his Communist adversaries, especially in the aftermath of several foreign policy blunders early in his administration. Lyndon Johnson saw the Vietnam War as a test of his mettle, as a Southerner and as a man. He exhorted his soldiers to "nail the coonskin to the wall" in Vietnam, likening victory to a successful hunting expedition. When Johnson began bombing North Vietnam and sent the Marines to South Vietnam in early 1965, he had every intention of fighting a limited war. He and his advisers worried that too lavish a use of US firepower might prompt the Chinese to enter the conflict. It was not expected that the North Vietnamese and the NLF would hold out long against the American military. And yet US policymakers never managed to fit military strategy to US goals in Vietnam. Massive bombing had little effect against a decentralized economy like North Vietnam's. Kennedy had favored counterinsurgency warfare in the South Vietnamese countryside and Johnson endorsed this strategy but the political side, the effort to win the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese peasantry was at best underdeveloped and probably doomed. Presidents proved reluctant to mobilize American society to the extent the generals thought necessary to defeat the enemy. As the United States went to war in 1965, a few voices were raised in dissent. Within the Johnson administration, Undersecretary of State George Ball warned that the South Vietnamese government was a functional nonentity and simply could not be sustained by the United States, even with a major effort. Antiwar protest groups formed on many of the nation's campuses. In June, the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society decided to make the war its principal target. But major dissent would not begin until 1966 or later. By and large in 1965, Americans supported the administration's claim that it was fighting to stop communism in Southeast Asia or they simply shrugged and went about their daily lives, unaware that this gradually escalating war would tear American society apart. It was 1967 and the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that the war really was stepped up and a massive troop build up became enormous. Gulf of Tonkin was a resolution over a minor sea incident that Johnson had deliberately overblown to get authorization to allow for the massive build up.
The C on a computer screen is called?
Prompt or a C prompt
Definition of prompt?
Prompt is defined as the act of cause or bring about.
