Od
Military success in Vietnam is improving the president's chances for reelection.
Question 3 (1 point)
- We will stay because in Asia and around the world are countries whose independence rests, in large measure, on confidence in America's
word and in America's protection. To yield to force in Vietnam would weaken that confidence, would undermine the independence of many
lands, and would whet the appetite of aggression. We would have to fight in one land, and then we would have to fight in another-or abandon
much of Asia to the domination of Communists...
-President Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, January 12, 1966
Which idea is best described in this passage?
appeasement
Isolationism
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Ob
Ос
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domino theory
neutrality
Question 4 (1 point)
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) provided congressional support for

The domino theory was the idea, very popular during the Cold War in the U.S., that stated that if one country fell to communism, and therefore, to the Soviet Sphere, very quickly all of its neighbors would fall to communism as well.

This was the idea behind the U.S. invervention in Vietnam. The U.S. government thought that if Vietnam fell to communism, then Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, or Indonesia would follow soon.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) provided congressional support for president Lyndon B. Johnson to take any measure he deemed necessary to keep stability, and American Interests in Southeast Asia. In other words, this resolution gave permission to Johnson to launch the military intervention in Vietnam.