Alesha Huckleby 1
Professor Abbott
History 106
April 3rd, 2007
Vietnam
President Johnson was known as a liberal president who followed the Kennedy Policy with many promises and ideas for the future. The fight against communism, the domino theory, and a strong belief that America was a stable, rich, and wise enough country to support a weak country falling into the enveloping grasps of communism was a vision held also by most of the “Great Society.” By entering the fight against communism, the liberals showed their enthusiasm and arrogance with overconfidence in the United States’ abilities and wealth all the while underestimating the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. The Vietnam War was considered an illegal war and spurred many anti-war movements and a draft as liberalism still flourished in the 1960s and the “credibility gap” widened. Johnson’s idea of containment could have been the single most devastating mistake......
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