Please help with US history...

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anonymous · Answer

Which statement explains how U.S. involvement in Vietnam began?

anonymous · Answer

President Truman stationed U.S. troops in Vietnam to provide reinforcements during the Korean War.
	President Kennedy sent U.S. military advisers to aid South Vietnam in its attempts to subdue the Vietcong.
	President Eisenhower sent U.S. troops to Vietnam to replace the French troops that were withdrawing from Indochina.
	President Johnson ordered the bombing of North Vietnamese cities to prevent the overthrow of the South Vietnamese government.

anonymous · Answer

@bibby

bibby · Answer

I'd go with B.

anonymous · Answer

Thanks(: can you help me with another one?

bibby · Answer

The basic idea is the French started it, pulled out. Kennedy sent in military advisers and johnson escalated it if I remember correctly

sure

anonymous · Answer

Which policy was central to the foreign policy of every president from Truman through Johnson?
detente
	containment
	massive retaliation
	democratic enlargement

bibby · Answer

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment

anonymous · Answer

so B?

anonymous · Answer

to contain communism?

anonymous · Answer

@study-mode

bibby · Answer

Yeah. Read through that link as  it has a simple explanation of containment (the policy those presidents used in their foreign policy as far as asia went)

anonymous · Answer

Can you help with another couple of questions?

bibby · Answer

If I know them, I s'pose so.

anonymous · Answer

Thanks!
Which statement summarizes one result of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War? 	

        Congress repealed the War Powers Act.
	Public support for the Cold War was strengthened.
	Richard Nixon was forced to resign from the presidency.
	Americans questioned the containment policy.

During the post-World War II economic boom, which group became a new target for advertisers? 
 	
	retirees
	teenagers
	divorced women
	inner-city minorities


 	One of the major factors in economic growth in the 1950s was consumer spending by which group? 
 	
	war widows
	women
	teenagers
	college graduates

bibby · Answer

for 1) b and c are definitely wrong. a is wrong as the war powers act wasn't signed in till 1973 I think. I'd go with D because of public opinion of the war.

anonymous · Answer

I think that  #2 is b but im not sure

bibby · Answer

2) I'm torn between b and c. leaning towards C because women would have had much more money to spend on things in the 50s

3) B

anonymous · Answer

Thanks so much!