President Johnson's Foreign Policy During The Vietnam War

President Johnson is ranked 4th because he implemented great domestic policies such as health care programs but he created a credibility gap. One of the foreign Policy was the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a conflict between North and South Vietnam in which the North was led by a Communist and nationalist regime that fought against the Japanese in World War II and against French colonial rule in the 1940s. In 1954, the north won control of North Vietnam when the French agreed to a partition in the Geneva Accords. The South was led by a non-Communist regime and after 1956, it was headed by Ngo Dinh Diem who governed with economic assistance and a trained military assistance from America. Because most of the people was Buddhist but he was
This caused President Johnson to announce on March 31,1968 that he would limit bombing and negotiate peace with North Vietnam but also not run for president again. His Vietnam policy caused a credibility gap in which people began to grow skeptical of the government. The second foreign policy was the Superpower diplomacy.Although Johnson’s decision on the Vietnamese War ended up as a disaster, the President made some progress on arms control. In January 1967, Johnson signed the Outer Space Treaty with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, which outlawed nuclear weapons in earth orbit or in deep space. The U.S.also became a part of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in which the transfer of nuclear weapons to other nations and helping other nations bomb another nation was prohibited. One potential nuclear crisis that Johnson was able to solve was conflicting U.S. and Russian interests in the Middle East with Soviet Premier Kosygin in 1967 in which the two sides agreed to solve problems in the area.His domestic policies included the Great Society and civil rights,The Great Society was a program in which its main goal was to help underprivileged Americans, and protect American