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I'm writing my term paper on the 2008 AP U.S History topic. which is:
"Analyze the social, political, and economic tensions heightened by the Vietnam War. Focus your attention on the period 1964-1975."
I'm quite stuck, to be honest, and my paper is due Monday.
I've decided to focus my attention on things like The Gulf of Tonkin affair (and how LBJ used the "phantom" attack as an excuse to escalate the war and receive something of a "blank check" from Congress). My analyzation of the ways it heightened political tensions is because Johnson didn't ever really evaluate the situation overseas himself, and instead continued with Kennedy's policies. Having The Gulf of Tonkin affair be the first step toward complete involvement angered those who were against "assisting" in South Vietnam to begin with.
But I don't know if this counts as analyzation in the least. The hardest thing for me to realize was that one little word, "heightened", has had a great effect on the way I need to write this paper. That means to me, that there were issues before the War, and things (such as LBJ needing to balance Great Society and the War effort leading to less success of programs like Medicaid) that made worse the resentment of the war and angered those who could have benefitted most from the programs.
I'm afraid though, that I'm just retelling what happened, and not analyzing anything. Do you have any insight?
Thanks for your time, and any advice would be awesome. Bless you if you've made it throuh my senselelss mess.
"Analyze the social, political, and economic tensions heightened by the Vietnam War. Focus your attention on the period 1964-1975."
I'm quite stuck, to be honest, and my paper is due Monday.
I've decided to focus my attention on things like The Gulf of Tonkin affair (and how LBJ used the "phantom" attack as an excuse to escalate the war and receive something of a "blank check" from Congress). My analyzation of the ways it heightened political tensions is because Johnson didn't ever really evaluate the situation overseas himself, and instead continued with Kennedy's policies. Having The Gulf of Tonkin affair be the first step toward complete involvement angered those who were against "assisting" in South Vietnam to begin with.
But I don't know if this counts as analyzation in the least. The hardest thing for me to realize was that one little word, "heightened", has had a great effect on the way I need to write this paper. That means to me, that there were issues before the War, and things (such as LBJ needing to balance Great Society and the War effort leading to less success of programs like Medicaid) that made worse the resentment of the war and angered those who could have benefitted most from the programs.
I'm afraid though, that I'm just retelling what happened, and not analyzing anything. Do you have any insight?
Thanks for your time, and any advice would be awesome. Bless you if you've made it throuh my senselelss mess.