The situation in Vietnam is deteriorating, and without new U. S. action defeat appears inevitable. . . . There is still time to turn it around, but not much. —Memorandum to President Lyndon B. Johnson, February 7, 1965 What was one way the U. S. government responded to this concern?

In 1965, thanks to the special powers given by Congress to president LBJ to respond to challenges in Vietnam, his administration escalated the American involvement to support the South Vietnamese government fighting communist guerrillas of the Viet Cong. The US administration increased draft and mobilized hundreds of thousands of soldiers to Indochina, as well as supplies.  In 1965, over half a million American troops were deployed in the Southeast Asian country.

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superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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