THE VIET NAM WAR REPRESENTED THE POWER OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO WAGE WAR WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS?.
I agree that the Viet Nam War represented the power of an American president to wage war without the consent of congress. Below I have noted support for my answer.
The United States never declared war on North Vietnam. Instead the "war " was often referred to as a conflict. Congress gave President Lyndon Johnson power to conduct military operations without declaring war and to launch a full-scale war if the president deemed it necessary. President Johnson used these powers to escalate the war and increase dramatically the size of the American forces and troops in Viet Nam. .
Much of the support for the war was the result of misinformation and skewed results of battles and strategies perpetrated by the administration and the military leaders. Consequently, the amount of US service members killed in the war reached 58,220.
A major motivation for US Presidents during the Viet Nam intervention was to stop the spread of communism, also called the containment strategy. President Kennedy said in his inauguration speech of 1961; " pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty ". .
Kennedy inherited the Cold War policy from President's Truman and Eisenhower and was determined to stop the spread of communism. Viet Nam was seen by Kennedy as a place to stop the spread of communism. He decided to draw a line in the sand. Johnson was the Vice President at the time. Johnson bought into the containment strategy and early on he made an unfortunate assessment of the situation in South Viet Nam by stating after a visit to the country that Ngo Dinh Diem, the leader of South Viet Nam, who the US supported, was the "Winston Churchill of Asia ". Diem went on to be a failure as a leader and was eventually overthrown and killed in a coup supported by the US government.
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The Vietnam War was a war we could not win and could not afford to lose. ... Johnson decided to send American troops to Vietnam to protect the south, and bomb the North. By the end of 1967 there were more than 500,000 American and 100,000 allied troops in Vietnam. ... The Vietnam War was the first war that Americans were actually able to watch on their home television. ... It called for the release of all U.S. prisoners, and withdrawal of U.S. forces. ...
The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. Also called the Indochina War, it was said to have been started in 1957 when communist rebels of North Vietnam launched an attack on The South. ... It was also the biggest turning point in the Vietnam War. ... The amount of war refugees in Vietnam amounted to over 10 million. ... The Vietnam War was a very controversial war, which lasted over a decade. ...
The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. Also called the Indochina War, it was said to have been started in 1957 when communist rebels of North Vietnam launched an attack on The South. ... It was also the biggest turning point in the Vietnam War. ... The amount of war refugees in Vietnam amounted to over 10 million. ... The Vietnam War was a very controversial war, which lasted over a decade. ...
However, the Vietnam War failed to provide the same stories of struggle and bravery that made films about World War I and World War II successful because the conflict lacked clear objectives and easily identified enemies. ... Over the last the forty years, far more Americans have reached their comprehension of the Vietnam War from watching noble-grunt films, such as The Green Berets, The Deer Hunter, First Blood, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, and Born on the Fourth of July, rather than reading historical books. ... The film begins with reporters asking a group of green berets questions that enable...
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Despite a common misconception that in its cinema of the Vietnam War Hollywood displayed a sense of realism and authenticity not seen before, the truth is more disturbing. ... The aim of this coursework is to assess how fairly mainstream American cinema dealt with the Vietnam War. ... The Vietnam War was one of the most incisive sensations of 20th century world history, especially as it was the first time the U.S. had to leave a theatre of war as the loser. ... By 1968 nine enemy divisions existed in the South, and Communist plans called for violent, widespread, simultaneous military action i...
The longest war in American history, (besides the Iraq War), and probably one of the most controversial events in American history as a whole, the Vietnam war divided our country and resulted in over 58,000 American causalities. The events of the Vietnam War expose a side of American history that is, put bluntly, quite unpleasant to look at considering the death and destruction left in the wake of our actions in Vietnam. ... The draft system was established and was a key example of the mistakes made by America in its involvement in the Vietnam Civil War. ... This was only one failed military ...
The Tet Offensive also had a large impact on the American society due to opposition to the war by civilians and the death of over 50,000 American soldiers. ... (Krepinevich 234) As the war in Vietnam progressed, President Johnson perceived the need to send more American troops and finally declared war against the communist North Vietnamese. ... (Compton's) After war was declared in 1964, American military involvement in Vietnam was dramatically increased. ... On May 4th, 1970, the National Guard was called in at Kent State University as a riot got out of ...
