Vietnam War Environmental Movement

The failure of the Vietnam War is what made Johnson one of the most unknowledged presidents in American history in my opinion. In 1965 two years after Johnson’s inaugration America entered a large scale war in Vietnam. Johnson established a bombing progam ‘Operation Rolling Thunder’ against North Vietnam in 1965 that continued to 1968. Johnson just kept sending American troops into North Vietnam by late july 1965 Johnson had agreed ón another deployment of an additional deployment of 50,000 troops to Vietnam and he made all these massive military decisions without having any real military experince himself. Many people

In September 1945 Ho Chin Minh declared his country independence (Vietnam).Ho determination to make his country free brought him to the realization that, in other to achieve that, the Vietnamese would have to fight another war against the French colonialist. After several years of fighting the French were won out and sued for peace with the Vietnamese with a suitably ceremony on October 9 1945.This brought the intervention of the American, who wanted Vietnamese to be permanently divided which was temporally divided at the time (pp 150-151). As the Americans campaigned against communism, it has being portrayed to many that it is the right of the Americans to intervene in Vietnamese as world power. But the decision made by Johnson’s presidency was bias. The increase of American military troops in south Vietnam provoked and intensified the response from the north which eventually broke out to a war were so many lives were lost. The war ended with a great

However, Nixon added on to the losses in the war and the continuing of it for four more years. Even though Nixon had an agreement with Johnson not to do anything that would result in the undercut of the United States position, he went ahead and did it anyway. Nixon did not want Johnson to receive all the glory for stopping the ongoing war in Vietnam when his term was at its final days. Nixon received information from Richard Allen on the progress of the peace talks and made sure to convince Diem that they were not in his best interest. Nixon convinced Diem he’d come up with a better negotiation, Diem would only have to wait a couple weeks until Nixon was elected president. By the end of Johnson’s presidency he failed to end the war because

When the war had started, World War II had just ended and the USSR had taken over multiple countries and spread Communism. This was not good so the United States thought they should jump in and help. Johnson was the president that sent American troops into the first real combat. It was hard to tell who the enemy was and wasn’t because it all blended together. The United States gave funds to South Vietnam while Ho Chi Minh turned North Vietnam into a communist dictatorship.

The United States became a part of NAFTA which ended tariff customs, which made it harder for American companies to compete with the cheaper Latin American goods. A new Environmental movement was gaining speed and ranted about global warming and the need for clean energy and the use of renewable resources in the United States. This was only the start of the environmental activist movement in the United

Johnson’s escalation in Vietnam was a defining moment of his presidency. Many things influenced him to escalate, including the cold war context, the advice from the working group, the weakness of the South Vietnamese Government, and protecting the US bases. I think that the main factor which influenced Johnson to escalate US Involvement was the advice given to him by the Working group because these were his closest and most trusted advisors.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was on August 7, 1964 and it gave Congress permission to expand the Vietnam War. In the spring of 1964, military personal developed a mission to attack North Vietnam, but Lyndon B. Johnson worried that the people would not support the growing war. Later that same year, powerful forces had gotten control over almost half of South Vietnam. As of that time Johnson was being criticized by the Senator Barry Goldwater, for not handling the war more aggressively. On August 2, there was a raid on the North Vietnamese coast by South Vietnamese warships, and the destroyer Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese boats. Just a few days later Maddox was reportedly under attack again. After that last attack on the Maddox, Johnson

has adapted to the jungle and the way of life in Vietnam, he would be

President Johnson believed that we should escalate troop deployments. Mr. McNamara did not. It happened anyway and the United States faced repercussions because of it. The fighting in Vietnam was a civil war to the people of Vietnam, not a Cold War battle like the United States saw it as. We saw what we wanted to see, what we believed was going on.

New president Lyndon B. Johnson acquired a troublesome circumstance in Vietnam, as the South Vietnamese government was in shambles and the Viet Cong was making substantial additions in provincial ranges of the South. Despite the fact that Johnson charged himself as an intense hostile to Communist, he vowed to respect Kennedy 's constrained troop duties in Vietnam. In reality, Johnson took care of the Vietnam circumstance respectably amid the early piece of his term, endeavoring to proceed with Kennedy 's projects without drastically heightening the war.

I do not think that Lyndon Johnson was correct in assuming that the Eisenhower and Kennedy administration committed him to go into the Vietnam War. Personally, I believe that everyone makes their own decisions, regardless of what has happened previously. Obviously the decisions that were made in the past could affect the present decisions being made but at the end of the day, Lyndon Johnson committed himself to the War in Vietnam.

There was not much serious thought in escalating the Vietnam War until the Tonkin Gulf incident occurred. In the Gulf of Tonkin it was reported “that two American destroyers had been attacked by North Vietnamese PT boats on August 4, 1964,” (Friedman 293). Shortly after these incidents, “Johnson immediately escalated the war by ordering airstrikes on North Vietnam” (Friedman 293). These events made it so Johnson could raise United States involvement in Vietnam without congressional backing on his decisions. Increasing involvement in the war was appealing though because after the Tonkin Gulf incident support of military involvement in North Vietnam raised from thirty one percent approvals to fifty percent approval (Moise 226). Although approval of the amount in favor immediately after the Gulf of Tonkin incident rose, it was a “mistake on Johnson’s part… assuming that the

President Kennedy saw the Vietnam situation as America’s fight to stop the spread of communism. Kennedy, who was young and well liked by the American people, did not really see much protest from the American people. He wanted equality in America, and supported open-mindedness in his country; at his assassination in 1963 only 15,000 troops were in Vietnam. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson greatly increased the number of troops that went to Vietnam, reaching 500,000 in 1966. Television allowed the American public to see what these soldiers were facing and that this was a senseless war. Too many men were coming home in American flag draped coffins, causing many Americans to rebel and move to the new hippie counterculture.

The Vietnam War raged on from 1954-1975, taking over three million lives with it. Conflicts rooted in the cold war resulted in the United States sending troops to defend South Vietnamese democracy. However as the war became more lengthy and expensive, many civilians began to protest the United States participating in the war, creating the Antiwar Movement. Though the movement had lasting effects on society, it did not immediately cause the United States to retreat from Vietnam. The antiwar movement of the 1960’s, which is deeply connected with the transcendentalist belief of Civil Disobedience, protested the involvement of the United States in the infamous Vietnam War, and has had numerous effects on the American Military and Government to this day. However, the movement that strived for peace did not completely accomplish its goal of ending the United States’ involvement in international armed conflict.

The election was held and Ho Chi Minh was elected to be the communist leader. After establishing Ngo Dinh Diem as the leader of South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh established the Viet Cong who ventured into South Vietnam to encourage communism and gain support of Ho Chi Minh. War between Vietnam and the United States was declared in 1965 due to the sinking of an American naval boat. Lyndon B. Johnson came into office in 1964, and with holding office for just a few months, President Johnson decided to drop bombs in Vietnam. Dispersing numerous bombs, the U.S. targeted the North Vietnamese economy in hope for a halt in the support of the guerrilla fighters who were among the South Vietnamese