![]() ![]() Let no one think for a moment that retreat from Viet-Nam would bring an end to conflict. We are also there because there are great stakes in the balance. The result would be increased unrest and instability, and even wider war. To leave Viet-Nam to its fate would shake the confidence of all these people in the value of an American commitment and in the value of America's word. Around the globe, from Berlin to Thailand, are people whose well-being rests, in part, on the belief that they can count on us if they are attacked. We are also there to strengthen world order. ![]() Since 1954 every American President has offered support to the people of South Viet-Nam…. We are there because we have a promise to keep. Why are these realities our concern? Why are we in South Viet-Nam ? The contest in Viet-Nam is part of a wider pattern of aggressive purposes. It is a nation which is helping the forces of violence in almost every continent. This is a regime which has destroyed freedom in Tibet, which has attacked India, and has been condemned by the United Nations for aggression in Korea. The rulers in Hanoi are urged on by Peking. Over this war-and all Asia-is another reality: the deepening shadow of Communist China. Large-scale raids are conducted on towns, and terror strikes in the heart of cities…. And helpless villages are ravaged by sneak attacks. Women and children are strangled in the night because their men are loyal to their government. Simple farmers are the targets of assassination and kidnapping. This support is the heartbeat of the war.Īnd it is a war of unparalleled brutality. But trained men and supplies, orders and arms, flow in a constant stream from north to south. Of course, some of the people of South Viet-Nam are participating in attack on their own government. The first reality is that North Viet-Nam has attacked the independent nation of South Viet-Nam. The world as it is in Asia is not a serene or peaceful place. With this speech, Johnson laid the political groundwork for a major commitment of U.S. Having secured Congressional authorization with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Johnson launched a bombing campaign in the North, and in March 1965, dispatched 3,500 marines to South Vietnam. President Johnson, in this speech delivered at Johns Hopkins University on April 7, 1965, lists the reasons for escalating the United State's involvement in Vietnam. Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945).Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913).Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877).Colonization and Settlement (1621-1750).Military History and the LGBTQ+ Community.Two Wings of the Same Bird: Cuban Immigration and Puerto Rican Migration to the United States.Why They Fought: Ordinary Soldiers in the Civil War.Expansion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Early Twentieth Century Mexican Immigration to the U.S.Who Freed the Slaves? How a War for Union Became a War for Freedom.
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