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The reasons for the U.S. avoiding open conflict became known as 'Vietnam Syndrome': which helps explain Americans' fear of a military quagmire, or war with no foreseeable end. One response to Vietnam Syndrome in American foreign policy was the Reagan Doctrine.
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After 15 months and more than 250,000 flights, the Berlin Airlift officially comes to an end. The airlift was one of the greatest logistical feats in modern history and was one of the crucial events of the early Cold War.In June 1948, the Soviet Union suddenly blocked all ground traffic into West Berlin, which was located entirely within the Russian zone of occupation in Germany. It was an obvious effort to force the United States, Great Britain, and France (the other occupying powers in Germany) to accept Soviet demands concerning the postwar fate of Germany. As a result of the Soviet blockade, the people of West Berlin were left without food, clothing, or medical supplies. Some U.S. officials pushed for an aggressive response to the Soviet provocation, but cooler heads prevailed and a plan for an airlift of supplies to West Berlin was developed. It was a daunting task: supplying the daily wants and needs of so many civilians would require tons of food and other goods each and every day. On June 26, 1948, the Berlin Airlift began with U.S. pilots and planes carrying the lion’s share of the burden. During the next 15 months, 277,264 aircraft landed in West Berlin bringing over 2 million tons of supplies. On September 30, 1949, the last plane–an American C-54–landed in Berlin and unloaded over two tons of coal. Even though the Soviet blockade officially ended in May 1949, it took several more months for the West Berlin economy to recover and the necessary stockpiles of food, medicine, and fuel to be replenished.
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Answer: E. President Johnson vetoing the Freedmen's Bureau declaring it unconstitutional
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President Johnson was a Southerner who ran as Vice-President to Abraham Lincoln in order to portray a unity government and when he ascended to the Presidency with the assassination of Lincoln, he tried to limit the freedoms of the Black Americans whose enslavement had been the cause of the hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Civil War.
He was particularly opposed to the Freedmen's Bureau which worked to ensure that the previously enslaved Blacks were able to gain opportunities that would make their lives better such as education. He vetoed the Bureau as depicted in this cartoon, but the Radical Republican controlled Congress overruled him.