What was the key to a successful withdrawal from Vietnam from ...

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Question 1

What initial policy choices did President Johnson make with respect to Vietnam? Why?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What steps did President Johnson take to combat poverty and discrimination?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

What was the key to a successful withdrawal from Vietnam from Nixons perspective?
 
  A) the installation of a pro-American regime
  B) the preservation of U.S. credibility
  C) the total defeat of the NLF
  D) the withdrawal of all U.S forces within three months

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Answer 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  Johnson believed that American credibility was at stake in Vietnam.
  


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  Faced with the choice of escalating U.S. involvement to prevent an NLF victory or withdrawing entirely from the country, Johnson escalated.
  


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  He believed he had to preserve a noncommunist South Vietnam or else face a debilitating backlash from Republicans.
  


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  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.
  


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  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.
  


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  In July, the administration added 100,000 more soldiers, with more to follow as necessary.
  

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  In pursuit of what he called the Great Society, President Johnson first declared a War on Poverty.
  


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  Following Johnsons lead, Congress sharply increased the availability of money and food stamps through the Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
  


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  Several programs focused on improving educational opportunities as an avenue out of poverty.
  


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  Johnson became the most vocal proponent of racial equality ever to occupy the Oval Office.
  


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  The 1964 Civil Rights Act made desegregation the law of the land.
  


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  The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed poll taxes and provided federal voting registrars in states that refused the ballot to African Americans.
  

Answer 3

Answer: B

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