Question

The situation in Vietnam is deteriorating, and without new U.S. action defeat appears inevitable. . . . There is still time to turn it around, but not much. —Memorandum to President Lyndon B. Johnson, February 7, 1965 What was one way the U.S. government responded to this concern?

Answer 1

In 1965, thanks to the special powers given by Congress to president LBJ to respond to challenges in Vietnam, his administration escalated the American involvement to support the South Vietnamese government fighting communist guerrillas of the Viet Cong. The US administration increased draft and mobilized hundreds of thousands of soldiers to Indochina, as well as supplies. In 1965, over half a million American troops were deployed in the Southeast Asian country.

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