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Describe the historical context surrounding documents 1 and 2 Analyze Document 2 and explain how audience, or purpose, or bias, or point of view affects this document's use as a reliable source of evidence Document 1:

Describe the historical context surrounding documents 1 and 2 Analyze Document 2 and explain how audience, or purpose, or bias, or point of view affects this document's use as a reliable source of evidence Document 1:

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● Describe the historical context surrounding documents 1 and 2 Analyze Document 2 and explain how audience, or purpose, or bias, or point of view affects this document's use as a reliable source of evidence Document 1: ...I cannot tell you tonight as your President-with certainty-that a Communist conquest of South Vietnam would be followed by a Communist conquest of Southeast Asia. But I do know there are North Vietnamese troops in Laos. I do know that there are North Vietnamese trained guerrillas tonight in northeast Thailand. I do know that there are Communist-supported guerrilla forces operating in Burma. And a Communist coup was barely averted in Indonesia, the fifth largest nation in the world. So your American President cannot tell you-with certainty-that a Southeast Asia dominated by Communist power would bring a third world war much closer to terrible reality. One could hope that this would not be so. But all that we have learned in this tragic century strongly suggests to me that it would be so. As President of the United States, I am not prepared to gamble on the chance that it is not so. I am not prepared to risk the security-indeed, the survival of this American Nation on mere hope and wishful thinking. I am convinced that by seeing this struggle through now, we are greatly reducing the chances of a much larger war-perhaps a nuclear war. I would rather stand in Vietnam, in our time, and by meeting this danger now, and facing up to it, thereby reduce the danger for our children and for our grandchildren.... Source: President Lyndon B. Johnson speech in Congress on Vietnam September 29, 1967 Document 2: As a veteran and one who feels this anger, I would like to talk about it. We are angry because we feel we have been used in the worst fashion by the administration of this country ....we cannot consider ourselves America's best men when we are ashamed of and hated what we were called on to do in Southeast Asia. In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam...by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart .... I want to relate to you the feeling that many of the men who have returned to this country express because we are probably angriest about all that we were told about Vietnam and about the mystical war against communism. We found that not only was it a civil war, an effort by a people who had for years been seeking their liberation from any colonial influence whatsoever... ....We found most people didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy. They only wanted to work in rice paddies without helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm burning their villages and tearing their country apart. They wanted everything to do with the war, particularly with this foreign presence of the United States of America, to leave them alone in peace, and they practiced the art of survival by siding with whichever military force was present at a particular time, be it Vietcong, North Vietnamese, or American." Source: Excerpt from testimony provided by Lt. John Kerry on behalf of Vietnam Veterans of America to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. Kerry later became a U.S. Senator himself, representing Massachusetts and was appointed Secretary of State in 2013 Describe the historical context surrounding these documents Identify and explain the relationship between the events and/or ideas found in these documents (Cause and Effect, or Similarity/Difference, or Turning Point) MARCH OBS OR ALL ow! MARC JOES VOTING RIGHTS NOW END SEGREGATED PUBLI JOSS Perfe EQUAL
Transcribed Image Text:● Describe the historical context surrounding documents 1 and 2 Analyze Document 2 and explain how audience, or purpose, or bias, or point of view affects this document's use as a reliable source of evidence Document 1: ...I cannot tell you tonight as your President-with certainty-that a Communist conquest of South Vietnam would be followed by a Communist conquest of Southeast Asia. But I do know there are North Vietnamese troops in Laos. I do know that there are North Vietnamese trained guerrillas tonight in northeast Thailand. I do know that there are Communist-supported guerrilla forces operating in Burma. And a Communist coup was barely averted in Indonesia, the fifth largest nation in the world. So your American President cannot tell you-with certainty-that a Southeast Asia dominated by Communist power would bring a third world war much closer to terrible reality. One could hope that this would not be so. But all that we have learned in this tragic century strongly suggests to me that it would be so. As President of the United States, I am not prepared to gamble on the chance that it is not so. I am not prepared to risk the security-indeed, the survival of this American Nation on mere hope and wishful thinking. I am convinced that by seeing this struggle through now, we are greatly reducing the chances of a much larger war-perhaps a nuclear war. I would rather stand in Vietnam, in our time, and by meeting this danger now, and facing up to it, thereby reduce the danger for our children and for our grandchildren.... Source: President Lyndon B. Johnson speech in Congress on Vietnam September 29, 1967 Document 2: As a veteran and one who feels this anger, I would like to talk about it. We are angry because we feel we have been used in the worst fashion by the administration of this country ....we cannot consider ourselves America's best men when we are ashamed of and hated what we were called on to do in Southeast Asia. In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam...by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart .... I want to relate to you the feeling that many of the men who have returned to this country express because we are probably angriest about all that we were told about Vietnam and about the mystical war against communism. We found that not only was it a civil war, an effort by a people who had for years been seeking their liberation from any colonial influence whatsoever... ....We found most people didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy. They only wanted to work in rice paddies without helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm burning their villages and tearing their country apart. They wanted everything to do with the war, particularly with this foreign presence of the United States of America, to leave them alone in peace, and they practiced the art of survival by siding with whichever military force was present at a particular time, be it Vietcong, North Vietnamese, or American." Source: Excerpt from testimony provided by Lt. John Kerry on behalf of Vietnam Veterans of America to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. Kerry later became a U.S. Senator himself, representing Massachusetts and was appointed Secretary of State in 2013 Describe the historical context surrounding these documents Identify and explain the relationship between the events and/or ideas found in these documents (Cause and Effect, or Similarity/Difference, or Turning Point) MARCH OBS OR ALL ow! MARC JOES VOTING RIGHTS NOW END SEGREGATED PUBLI JOSS Perfe EQUAL
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